There are a few adds for September. This Saturday (16th) you can catch Rachel Krehm in recital with Janelle Fung. That’s at 3pm. Details here.  Saturday 30th is a busy day.  At 7.30pm at Church of the Redeemer The Happenstancers have a concert.of mostly 20th century music for soprano and chamber ensemble.  Details and tickets here.  At the same time and repeated at 4pm on the Sunday Confluence Concerts have a concert of Irish music, both traditional and modern art song.  That’s at Heliconian Hall.  Details etc.  Also from the 22nd to 24th Tafelmusik are performing Beethoven’s 4th and 5th symphonies at Koerner Hall.  Their take on Beethoven symphonies is unusual and very interesting.  And while Tafelmusik are absent from Jeanne Lamon Hall on the 22nd and 23rd, ther Toronto Mendelssohn Singers are presenting a programme including dance.  A choreographed version of Handel’s Dixit Dominus is a rare event!

And so to October…

• Crow’s Theater has Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning; a play set in a right wing milieu in the wake of the Charlottesville riots.  Director Philip Akin could not resist the challenge of directing fundamentally unsympathetic material!  Previews from the 3rd with opening on the 6th and running until the 22nd.
• Also on the 6th the COC opens another run of Puccini’s La Bohème.  On the off chance you haven’t already seen this production here’s my review from the 2019 run.  The selling points for me here are that Jordan de Souza is conducting and Amina Edris is singing Mimi (except on the 22nd when Jonelle Sills makes her COC debut which is also a good thing.)
• In the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre noon concert series. the following may be of interest.  October 10th Canadian tenor Josh Lovell presents a 19th century programme.
• From October 13th to 15th at Jeanne Lamon Hall, Tafelmusik will be joined by Emmanuel Resche-Cazerta; concert master of Les Arts Florissants, in a concert of French and Italian music.
• GFN Productions will be premiering a concert version of Jaap Nico Hamburger’s new opera Ariella, inspired by the novels of Ariella Kornmehl with a libretto by Thomas Beijer.
  This will take place at Koerner Hall on October 22nd.
• Later in the month Opera Atelier are presenting Gluck’s Orphée et Euridyce at the Elgin Theatre.  It’s the French version with a haut-contre Orphée (Colih Ainsworth) opposite Mireille Asselin’s Eurydice.  That runs from the 26th to November 1st.
• Also on the 26th at 7pm it’s Centre Stage at the Four Seasons Centre.
• And also on the 26th (and 27th) at 8pm the TSO and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir are doing Carmina Burana.