Music and Theatre in March

Here is what’s on the radar so far.:

Music

  • March 3rd at noon in the RBA the UofT Faculty of Music: France-Canada Academy of Vocal Arts have their annual collaborative recital.
  • March 12th to 15th UoT Opera are performing Britten’s Rape of Lucretia at Harbourfront Centre.

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… and the back half of February

Here are some more things to see in the second half of February…

  • Lunchtime concerts:  On the 17th in the RBA there’s a preview of the GGS spring double bill and on the 25th in the same space there’s a concert by the Canadian Art Song Project.  On the 26th at Metropolitan United Teresa Tucci is presenting a mixed bill of opera, art song and musical theatre.
  • On the 20th (repeat performance on the 28th) at Arrayspace, the Happenstancers have a sort of mini-show (jjust three performers) of works by Brahms, Faure, Ades, Kurtag, Lori Freedman and Saariaho. There is a rather cool, one minute, promo video.
  • Also on the 20th; the fourth anniversary of the latest Russian aggression against Ukraine, there’s a film and CD launch at the Tranzac for the “Daughters of the Donbas” project which is concerned with the kidnap by the Russian state of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories.
  • On the 27th CanStage open Little Willy; a puppet based Romeo and Juliet at Berkeley Street.  It runs until April 5th.
  • On the 28th Sinfonia Toronto have a concert at George Weston Recital Hall that includes two world premiers; Colin Eatock’s Four Song Offerings on texts by Tagore and Petros Shoujounian’s Sinfonietta.

Chamber music with a twist

There are a couple of concerts at the end of September that I didn’t hear about in time to include in my September listings post.  The concerts are being given by the Happenstancers and Slow Rise Music who each represent some of the interesting and different approaches that Toronto’s younger musicians are taking to presenting chamber music.

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