This can be a listing of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or fascinated by attending between October 13 and 19, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar here.
Opera Atelier: The Magic Flute
Wednesday, October 15, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 16, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, October 17, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, October 19, 2:30 p.m.
The Elgin & Winter Backyard Theatres, 189 Yonge St., $45+
A queen of the evening who sings that sky-high F with notoriously tough coloratura passages. Children on quests, on the lookout for love. Common brotherhood, and the everlasting query of fine vs evil. Dragon. One of the crucial beloved operas of all instances, the Magic Flute, returns to the stage with Opera Atelier this week, with full costumes, elaborate stage units, and dancers. Identified for his or her elegant and complicated visible impression and good, stylistic musicianship, OA’s Magic Flute shall be nice enjoyable for all ages to attend, particularly beneath the educated and charismatic David Fallis’ baton. Let Marshal Pynkoski, stage director, and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, choreographer, fill out your night with proficient singers, dancers, and musicians, and a fantasy — it’s good to dream, and to intention excessive, particularly when the world appears to be in perpetual battle and hellfire. Learn our Interview with Marshall Pynkoski here. Information here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Chris Thile
Wednesday, October 15, 7 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $60+
Thile defies genres and kinds. At simply 31, he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship (2012), and together with a couple of Grammy awards, Thile was named BBC’s Folks Musician of the 12 months (2007). He carried on the custom of A Prairie Dwelling Companion, because the host (2016-2020) of one of the vital beloved radio packages in NPR’s historical past, he’s jammed with Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, and different musical giants, recorded and toured with the folks band the Punch Brothers, and Nickel Creek — he even launched a solo Bach album with Nonesuch (2013), which grew to become an on the spot basic (quantity 2 is due this coming November 7, already producing a lot anticipation). The person is clearly a genius. Come out and expertise Thile’s chameleon versatility and sheer musical brilliance with a program that may function all issues that curiosity him — from Bach, to people, and improvisation. To not be missed. Information here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Matthias Goerne, Baritone with Daniil Trifonov, Piano
Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $70
Because the falling of nightfall inches earlier, and the sensible yellow daylight of summer time fades into pale gold, two of the perfect musicians of our time, Goerne and Trifonov, carry us the depth and pathos of Schubert’s best work: Winterreise, Op. 89. The turnaround from the fullness of summer time into the decaying, hole sorrow of winter is at all times painful, and inevitable. This specific wanderer’s journey with a damaged coronary heart, piano and voice at equal standing, is advised in lots of scenes — every track with an entire story, a universe inside them. Within the age of easy-access recordings and streaming, maybe it’s much more obligatory to listen to these tales advised by actual individuals, in actual time. Goerne and Trifonov’s mastery of their devices and their musical excellency guarantees an incredible night — if tinged with inexorable unhappiness — with the sensible pleasure that’s the reason for such sorrow. Information here.
Toronto Chamber Choir: Tempus Imperfectum
Saturday, October 18, 3:30 p.m.
Church of the Redeemer, $ 40/30/5 — pay what you would like
Lucas Harris and the Toronto Chamber Choir brings music of Ockeghem, Lassus, John Cage, Pete Seeger, and others, for this leisurely Saturday afternoon. TCC’s concert events are meticulously ready, and the exploration of the theme of time and its manipulation is an enchanting topic, particularly when most of us are working round, chasing the end-tail of that elusive time. However what’s time good for, if it doesn’t enable us to dwell by it? Come and fill your time with TCC, with sound, ideas, and music. Information here.
Toronto Consort: Les Arts Florissants: Gesualdo Passione
Saturday, October 18
Knox Faculty Chapel, College of Toronto, 59 St. George St., $50
The most effective interval ensembles of the world, taking part in one of the vital vibrant and celebrated early composers, Gesualdo, makes this live performance a must-attend. Gesualdo’s personal life was filled with drama — a second son of Prince of Venosa, in a pressured marriage (as his elder brother died, Gesulado was pushed into marriage at age 19), his spouse’s affair led him to the bloody homicide of each her and her lover; the general public uproar, the safety from the Italian energy gamers (Gesualdo’s mom was a niece of a pope, and one among his uncles was an precise saint — Saint Charles Borromeo), and certainly his complete life, is mirrored within the six books of madrigals, of unhinged concord and excessive chromaticism. Drenched in emotional peaks and valleys, and appreciable wealth, Gesulado was capable of create music as he wished. His Passione, written for the final three days of the Holy Week, as Jesus of Nazareth faces his tragic finish as a human being, by the experience of Les Arts Florissants, guarantees a ravishing night. Information here.
Piano Lunaire: COMPOSERS IN PLAY XV: Ink from the Defend
Saturday, October 18, doorways 7 p.m., live performance 8 p.m.
TD Music Corridor, 178 Victoria Avenue (4th Ground), $52.70
Pianists Anthony de Mare and Adam Sherkin come collectively for this (practically) all-Canadian program. The all-new music program options works by Canadian composers Vivian Fung, Ann Southam, Heather Schmidt, Jared Miller, Linda Catlin Smith and Rodney Sharman, together with the world premiere of a brand new association of a bit by Andrew Staniland, and music by three American composers: Steve Reich, Conrad Tao, and Kevin Places. Sherkin has been curating the Piano Lunaire collection with concert events in Toronto and New York Metropolis for years, bringing consideration to music and artists on each side of the border. Anthony de Mare is on the school of the Manhattan Faculty of Music, and each artists are champions of latest music. They’ve curated a program of works for one and two keyboards, and 4 of the composers shall be current for the live performance. Information here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. Presently working within the area of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many various issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
