Music – concerts and opera

• 3rd November – Diapente with guest Felix Deak on viola da gamba present a Dowland themed programme at St. Thomas’s Anglican.
• 6th and 7th November – The Glenn Gould School Opera presents Barber’s A Hand of Bridge and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti in Mazzoleni Hall.

• 7th November – The Happenstancers offer The King’s Grief; an expanded version of Judith eir’s King Harald’s Saga with lots of additionasl material; some of it brand new. That’s at Redeemer Lutheran.
• 9th November – At lunchtime there’s a celebration of Mary Morrison at 100 in Walter Hall. It’s free but registration is required. Later on at the the Tranzac there’s AtG’s Opera Pub.
• 10th November – Barbara Hannigan gives a masterclass at noon in Walter Hall
• 12th and 14th November – The TSO present Beethoven’s 4th Symphony and Strauss’ Four Last Songs with Rachel Willis-Sørensen at Roy Thomson Hall
• 13th November – Soprano Gabrielle Turgeon; the Grand First Prize Winner of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s 2025 competition, performs in the RBA
• 15th November – Rihab Chaieb and Ammiel Bushakevitz perform at Koerner Hall with a programme that included the premiere of a work by Matthew Ricketts and Royce Vavrek.
• 18th November – Dog Days by David T. Little and Royce Vavrek opens at the Jackman Performance Centre presented by Tapestry and Against the Grain. It runs until the 29th.
• 19th to 22nd November – UoT Opera present Cecilia Livingston’s Fall River, the legend of Lizzie Borden at the Elgin Theatre.
• 20th November – French art song from the Glenn Gould School in the RBA.
• 22nd November – Opera Revue have a new burlesque show at Cake Cabaret.
• 25th – 28th November – Citadel + Compagnie present a choreographed version of Schubert’s Winterreise arranged for tenor, soprano, piano and violin plus, of course, dancers. It’s at The Citadel.
• 27th November – More French mélodies in the RBA, this time from the Ensemble Studio.
• 27th November – Liederabend with Russell Braun in Walter Hall. Free but registration required.
• 27th November – Toronto City Opera present La Bohème at the Terminal Theatre. Also on the 29th.

Theatre

Lots of theatre openings, especially early in the month and other shows being extended so there’s lots to see.

• 3rd November – Evan Buliung’s one man Macbeth opens in the Studio at Crow’s theatre. It runs to November 29th.
• 5th November – Barrie’s Talk is Free Theatre opens a run of All the Cows are Dead at 68 Tycos Drive (wherever that is). It runs to November 18th.
• 6th November – De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail opens at Soulpepper. Previews are 3rd to the 5th with the run extending to November 29th. This is a remount of the excellent 2024 production starring Damien Atkins.
• 6th November – Hamlet (solo) opens a three performance run at Theatre Passe Muraille.
• 8th November – Rogers vs Rogers returns at Berkeley Street in a collaboration between CanStage and Crow’s Theatre. The run goes to December 13th.
• 11th November – Anne-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) returns to the Bluma Appel Theatre. Previews begin on the 6th and the run continues to the 22nd.
• 13th November – Adam Lazarus’ Versus opens at The Theatre Centre. Previews on the 11th and 12th and closes on the 28th.
• 14th November – Icarus theatre’s presentation of How to Defend Yourself opens at The Theatre Centre. Previews are the 12th and 13th and it runs to the 28th.
• 22nd November – Soulpepper open Miklós László’s Parfumerie. Previews start on November 18th with the run extending to December 20th.
• 24th November – another collab between Soulpepper and Crow’s; All’s Well, based on the Mona Awad story opens at Crow’s and runs to December 27th.
• 26th November – Talk is Free open Steve Ross’ Twelve Dinners, location TBA. It runs until December 10th.