Here are some upcoming shows for April:

Music

• First, a late March Show.  Yu Dun and Royce Vavrek’s Pulitzer winning opera Angel’s Bone, about human trafficking, comes to Harbourfront Centre Theatre March 22nd to 24th.  More information here.
• On the 6th the Happenstancers have a concert; Being Pascal Dusapin, at Redeemer Lutheran.  We are promised a “a portrait concert in palindromic form” featuring music by Dusapin, Kaija Saariaho and Samy Moussa.

• Opera Atelier’s All is Love runs from the 11th to the 14th at Koerner Hall.
• Soundstreams have their Keyed Up festival of piano music at the Jane Mallett Theatre from the 18th to the 20th.
• The GGS New Music Ensemble have a free concert (tickets required) in the Temerty Theatre on the 23rd.  Expect music by Samy Moussa, Iannis Xenakis and Linda Catlin Smith.
• The COC opens a run of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, with local favourite Simone Osborne as the naughty Norina, at the Four Seasons Centre on the 26th.
• The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir with members of the TSO and an interesting line up of soloists have two performances of Verdi’s Requiem.  They are at the George Weston Hall on the 27th and Koerner Hall on the 30th.

Theatre

• Robert Lepage and Guillaume Coté’s production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet plays at the Elgin Theatre.  There’s a preview on the 3rd then it runs from the 4th to the 7th.
• Native Earth Performing Arts are presenting Women in the Fur Trade at the Aki Studio.  “In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel.”  Previews on the 9th and 10th with the run from the 11th to 21st.
• Nightwood Theatre are presenting Rose Napoli’s Mad Madge at the Theatre Centre.  Previews are the 9th and 10th with the run opening on the 11th and closing on the 21st.  It’s about Margaret Cavendish; 17th-century philosopher, poet, playwright – a scandalous Jill-of-all-Trades and mistress of none.
• bahia watson’s one woman show shaniqua in abstraction plays in the Studio Theatre at Crow’s. Previews are the 9th to 11th then the run is the 12th to 28th.
• Silk Bath Collective are presenting Woking Phoenix at Theatre Passe Muraille.  Previews are the 12th to the 17th with opening on the 18th and running until the 27th.  It’s described as “an intergenerational Chinese love story about creating community and the food that reminds us of home.”