There’s a fair number of shows appearing at fairly short notice as people scramble to adapt to relaxing regulations so this post will contain events for April not previously noted plus a look forward to May.
- April 26th at 7.30 pm Likht Ensemble have a free Holocaust Remembrance Day concert at Mazzoleni Hall.
- April 28th at 8pm at St. Andrews on King St. Soundstreams are reprising the Vivier Lovesongs concert that was done as a stream last fall.
- April 29th at 7.30pm at 918 Bathurst The Happenstancers have a concert featuring music by Julia Wolfe, Nahre Sol, Kaija Saariaho, Gyorgy Kurtag, Oliver Knussen, and WA Mozart.
And so to May:
- May 2nd at 7.30 pm in Temerty Theatre the GGS New Music Ensemble has a free concert featuring Paul Frehner’s Sometimes the Devil Plays Fate for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra plus other works.
- May 3rd to 22nd Emma Haché’s play Lesson in Forgetting is being presented by Pleiades Theatre at the Young Centre. It’s a two person drama exploring love and brain trauma.
- May 5th to 7th Toronto Operetta Theatre are performing Michael Rose’s Northern Light’s Dream at the St. Lawrence Centre. (8pm Thurs/Fri, 3pm Sat)
- May 6th to 21st at 7.30pm at the Four Seasons centre it’s Mozart’s Magic Flute presented by the COC. It’s a revival of the Diana Paulus production. Details here.
- May 15th at 3pm at Koerner Hall it’s the near legendary Anne-Sofie von Otter with a mainly Mozart and Schubert programme.
- May 21st at 8pm at Roy Thompson Hall it’s Gimenez and Hannigan with the TSO. The concert features two world premiers and Stravinsky’s Firebird.
- May 22nd at 2,30pm VOICEBOX:Opera in Concert are performing Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All; an opera about Susan B. Anthony with a libretto by Gertrude Stein.
- May 24th to June 5th (8pm except 4pm on May 29th and June 5th) in the Great Hall at OCAD Tapestry Opera are premiering RUR: A Torrent of Light by Nicole Lizée and Nicholas Billon. It’s a multi-media opera based on Karel Čapek’s Rossums Universal Robots. There’s a terrific cast headed up by Krisztina Szabó and Peter Barrett. Details here.
Ah too bad The Mother of Us All will be the piano only. But getting the ticket for RUR stat.
I think RUR is definitely the event for the next couple of months. Nice to see someone prepared to take some artistic risks.