First some additional February shows

• On the 23rd at Harbourfront Centre Art of Time Ensemble are presenting Music from the Weimar Republic.
• On the 25th VOICEBOX have a concert performance of Verdi’s Ernani at the St. Lawrence Centre.

Opera

• Opera York are presenting Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts on March 1st and 3rd.
• March 14th to 17th UoT Opera are doing Massenet’s Cendrillon at a to be determined location.
• March 20th and 22nd at Koerner Hall, the Glenn Gould School spring opera is Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites.  That one has me excited!

Concerts

• On the 3rd at Trinity St. Paul’s there’s a free concert in memory of countertenor James Bowman featuring Daniel Taylor and Joel Allison among others.
• There are several classical vocal concerts at lunchtime in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre.
  • On the 6th it’s the annual Wirth prize winner erecital.  This year it’s mezzo-soprano Jingjing Xu with Christopher Knopp on piano.
  • There are concerts by members of the Ensemble Studio on the 21st and 28th.
  • On the 26th there are staged excerpts from Opera Atelier’s upcoming All is Love.
• From the 8th to the 10th there’s the Women from Space Festival at 918 Bathurst.  Music composed by and performed by women in a wide variety of genres.
• On the 16th the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir are performing an arrangement of Schubert’s Winterreise with baritone Brett Polegato at Trinity St. Paul’s.
• On the 21st it’s the Norcop Prize recital at lunchtime in Walter Hall.  At this point I don’t know who is performing.
• March 22nd, 23rd and 24th Tafelmusik are presenting Alison Mackay’s multi-media show Staircases at Trinity St. Paul’s.
• The afternoon of the 24th sees Ema Nikolovska in her Koerner Hall debut with Charles Richard-Hamelin at the piano in a programme of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Debussy.

Theatre

• Soulpepper are presenting an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters by Inua Ellams setting it in Nigeria on the eve of the Biafran War.  Previews start February 29th with official opening on March 7th running to the 17th.
• On the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fraggle Rock Puppeteer Ingrid Hansen has a “spicy” adult show, Epidermis Circus at Sweet Action Theatre.  Sounds completely nuts!
• Crow’s Theatre’s Dana H will actually play at Factory Theatre.  Previews are the 11th to the 14th with opening on the 15th running until April 7th.
• Canadian Stage have the epic The Inheritance at the Bluma Appel Theatre.  It reimagines E.M. Forster’s Howards End as a contemporary portrait of the generation after the height of the AIDS crisis.  I said epic because it runs over two long evenings.  Previews start on March 22nd with Part 1 opening on March 27th and Part 2 the following night.  The run goes on until April 14th.