Here are some shows to take in in June:

Opera, music etc

• Opera 5’s Toronto Opera Festival at Theatre Passe Muraille. The double bill of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi runs June 3rd to 7th with casts including Rachel Krehm, Krisztina Szabó and Greg Dahl. June 12th to 14th is the world premiere of Cecilia Livingston and Duncan McFarlane’s Parélios.
• June 11th to 14th the TSO is performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Roy Thomson Hall. Soloists are Golda Schultz, Ema Nikolovska, Saimir Pirgu and Jongmin Park. Gustavo Gimeno conducts. The Friday performance will be livestreamed to Sankofa Square with a singalong option for the Ode to Joy.
• June 16th to 21st, COC, Tapestry Opera and Luminato are presenting Rene Orth’s Ten Days in a Madhouse at the Bluma Appel Theatre.
• June 22nd is Against the Grain’s Opera Pub (Pride edition) at the Tranzac.
• June 27th and 28th Toronto City Opera presents a fully staged version of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld with orchestra. It’s at Trinity St. Paul’s.

Theatre

• Tiger Bride; a punk Goth take on Beauty and the Beast opens at Soulpepper on June 2nd. (Previews May 29th to 31st, runs until June 21st).
• Franca Miraglia’s American Devotion opens at Crow’s theatre on June 4th (Preview June 3rd, runs to June 21st).
• June 17th, Spindle Collective’s siofra (Changeling) opens at the Red Sandcastle theatre. Runs until June 28th.
• June 24th Erin Shields’ immersive reworking of the Medusa legend opens at Soulpepper. Previews June 21st to 23rd with the run continuing to July 12th.
• The Fringe opens on June 30th. I’ll preview that nearer the time.