It’s coming towards the end of the traditional “season” but there’s sill plenty happening.  Here’s how I see may shaping up at present (I expect more theatre listings will come in.  They tend to be somewhat less notice!):

• May 1st and 2nd:  The TSO are coupling Brahms’ First Symphony with Emily D’Angelo and material from her enargeia CD.
• Also on May 2nd the Women’s Musical Club are hosting Joyce El-Khoury in recital at Walter Hall.

• May 3rd: Cherubini’s Medea opens a run at the COC (six performances ending May 17th).
• May 3rd and 4th: Confluence Concerts are presenting Teiya Kasahara’s Dichterliebe: Whose Love?; a “gender expansive” look at the classic cycle.
• May 3rd to 5th: Toronto Operetta Theatre have a run of Guerrero’ The Guest at the Inn in the Jane Mallett Theatre.
• May 4th: Natalya Gennadi curates and performs in a Soundstreams show; Grandma’s Shawl at the Redwood Theatre.
• May 8th:  The RBA noon concert features Charlotte Siegel and Queen Hezumuryango.
• May 9th: Hedda Gabler opens at Coalmine Theatre (previews May 5th to 8th; run May 9th to 26th) and First Métis Man of Odesa opens at Soulpepper. (preview May 8th; run May 9th to 19th).
• May 14th is the Ensemble Studio cast’s turn at Don Pasquale at the COC.
• May 15th:  The lunchtime RBA concert features Simone Osborne with a programme that includes music by Cecilia Livingston.
• May 16th: Crow’s Theatre and Obsidian Theatre open Jasmine Lee-Jones’ seven methods of killing kylie jenner. (previews 12th to 15th,; run 16th to 26th)
• On May 21st and 22nd Tapestry has two food themed shows at Theatre Passe Muraille.  The first features Acadienne Juliane Gallant in Le Kitchen Party and the second has Jennifer Tung and Keith Klassen in Iron Chef d’Orchestre.
• May 30th it’s back to the RBA for a recital by Alex Hetherington and Ariane Cossette.