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CRITIC’S PICKS | Classical Music Occasions You Completely Want To See This Week: July 28 – August 3


Soprano Lauren Margison (Picture courtesy of the artist); Countertenor Franco Fagioli (Picture: Clarissa Lapolla); Terry Lim, flutist and Inventive Director of Caledon Music Competition, performs on the Davis Sunflower Farm in 2024 (Picture courtesy of Caledon Music Competition)

It is a listing of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or eager about attending between July 28 and August 3, 2025. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.

Toronto Summer time Music: Franco Fagioli: The Final Castrato

Tuesday, July 29, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+

Franco Fagioli, one of many best countertenors of our time, joins l’Opéra Royal de Versailles below the baton of Stefan Plewniak this Tuesday night with a program that includes the very best works impressed and written for the final nice castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti. Fagioli, who’s been featured in main opera homes on this planet, together with Salzburg and Covent Backyard, is an actual deal with in a dwell efficiency, particularly within the beautiful acoustic of Koerner Corridor. Come by and take refuge from the new, noisy metropolis summer time, and sink into the great thing about this explicit repertoire, and be mesmerized by the range and fantastic thing about the human voice. Learn our Interview with Franco Fagioli right here. Information right here.

Toronto Live performance Orchestra: Romeo & Juliet and Tales of Different Star-Crossed Lovers

Tuesday, July 29, 8 p.m.
Palais Royale Ballroom, 1601 Lakeshore Blvd., $30+

After a sold-out season opener final week, TCO presents a program weaving all-time vocal favourites from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Puccini’s La bohème, Massenet’s Werther, to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Bernstein’s West Facet Story, that includes soloists Lynn Anoush Isnar and Colin Ainsworth. TCO’s summer time concert events at Palais Royale are an incredible mix of low-key summer time enjoyable with time-tested musical favourites by the attractive lakeside. TCO’s deal with making classical music accessible and pleasurable to all individuals is a crucial one — as sacred as the humanities could also be, we should keep in mind that the humanities exist merely to carry magnificence into everybody’s life, with out the inflexible wall that always exists, particularly within the classical music scene. If the concept of summer time breeze over a simple glass of a favorite drink, with passionate dwell classical music tickles your fancy, get your tickets quickly and head to the lakeside for this summer time weeknight gem. Information right here.

Worldwide Congress of Voice Academics: Lauren Margison in Live performance

Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $48+

The Worldwide Congress of Voice Academics convention, July 31 – August 3, invitations all singers, voice academics, artists, and faculties to share and construct additional information and techniques for the way forward for voice schooling, and it occurs each 4 years. For this 12 months, it’s hosted in Toronto by three establishments: the Nationwide Affiliation of Academics of Singing, the Royal Conservatory, and the College of Music, College of Toronto. This live performance highlights the goal of the convention: to showcase the artistry that the ICVT goals to create and help. Margison, a well-recognized face in Toronto — she is an alumna of the Canadian Opera Firm Ensemble Studio, in addition to quite a few performances in the course of the TD Toronto Jazz Competition, and the Seashores Jazz Competition — is a good option to carry a combined program of classical, jazz, and pop favs. And an incredible option to grace a Saturday night. Information right here.

Caledon Music Competition: Tune and Dance

Saturday, August 2, 7:15 p.m.
Davis Household Farm, 15770 Mountainview Rd, Caledon East, ON L7C 2V2, $45, low cost tickets obtainable

Davis Household Farm, one of many largest sunflower fields and a favorite place for visible social media followers, hosts the Caledon Music Competition this Saturday night. A mixture of instrumental and vocal numbers together with works of Piaf, Jacques Brel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, to Piazzolla and Arvo Pärt, this 90-minute program is a good way to have a good time the riches of Ontario summer time. Get out to the nation and take a breather and recharge with the wonderful sunflowers — it’s a actually beautiful place. Learn our Interview with Caldeon Music Competition Inventive Director Terry Lim right here. Information right here.

Toronto Summer time Music: TSM Finale

Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+

After so many nice packages involving visiting visitor artists, mentors, pageant fellows, and the Group Program, since July tenth, Toronto Summer time Music presents its closing live performance of the pageant on this Saturday night. Come out and help this wonderful group of people that have so generously shared their ardour and musical ideas, and bid them a farewell — until subsequent 12 months! Information right here.

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