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t’s still pretty quiet but there are some things still going on:
August 16th to 20th, the National Ballet has free performances at Harbourfront incorporating a number of partners and an eclectic mix of dance styles. Details.
August 28th at pm in the Music Garden at Harbourfront Lawrence Wiliford and PhoeNX Ensemble are performing Alec Roth’s Songs in Time of War. This one is free and outdoors so “weather permitting”. Continue reading
As usual it’s pretty quiet. Here’s a few th
ings I am aware of.
July 31st – Opera Revue @ Castro’s Lounge, 3:00pm-6:00pm. PWYC
Summer Opera Lyric Theatre has a short season at the Alumnae Theatre on Berkeley Street. There are three shows: (at 8pm unless otherwise specified)
August 4th to 12th in the atrium at the Royal Conservatory it’s Tapestry’s production of Brian Current’s Gould’s Wall. As of time of writing all performances are sold out.
And a bit further out Iain Scott is organising a tour to Dresden in March to see the Decker/Thielemann Ring. Details are on his website. Giving advance notice because apparently numbers for this need to be confirmed by August 22nd.
Today at 4pm in The Music Garden (Harbourfront) there’s a free concert of music by Métis composers performed by Rebecca Cuddy and the Wood and Wire Quartet. Here’s the full program:
N. Weisensel, Three Songs from Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North, book and text by SM Steele
“The Mending of Violence Song”
“Beneath the Endless Azure Sky”
“You Come and Go”
T. Patrick Carrabré, Métis Songs (2022)
Chanson de la Gornouillèr (from a song by Pierre Falcon)
My People Will Sleep… (story chosen by the soloist)
Since When (poem by Gregory Scofield)
I. Cusson, Five Songs on Poems of Marilyn Dumont (2017) (new arrangement for voice and string quartet)
Letter to Sir John A. MacDonald
The Red & White
Helen Betty Osborne
Half-Human/Half Devil (Halfbreed) Muse
The Devil’s Language
Sorry for the short notice but I only just heard about it.
Literally everything on my calendar for July is part of the Toronto Summer Music Festival. I previewed that back in April. The full schedule. including Regen and shuffle concerts is available on the TSMF website.
A couple more things coming up this month.
As we head into summer, as usual, things start to quieten down. I only have five shows in my schedule for the month of June:
That’s about it until Toronto Summer Music opens on July 7th.
So no big launch event to herald the COC’s 2022/23 season announcement, just an email. I’m not surprised because if the season had been announced in front of a large crowd at the Four Seasons Centre there would probably have been a riot. There are six productions on the main stage and each gets only seven or eight performances for a total of 45 which is the lowest since the house opened. Five of them are revivals and there’s no Parsifal. I begin to think that I have more chance of finding the Holy Grail than ever seeing Parsifal in Toronto.
Toronto Summer Music is back for real with the festival running from July 7th to 30th. There are 26 main stage concerts plus the ReGENERATION and shuffle concerts and the community programmes. The main stage line up has now been announced and here’s my curated pick:
It’s not much of a secret that I’m a bit fanatical about new opera. This year Tapestry has two really exciting looking premieres in Toronto. Later in the year there’s Brian Current’s Gould’s Wall which, as an ex climber, I just have to see but first, in fact coming up next month, is RUR: A Torrent of Light by Nicholas Billon and Nicole Lizée. It’s about robots and it’s a collaboration with OCAD U who are developing some way cool technology for the show. There’s now loads of really good preview material about the show on Tapestry’s Youtube channel. So I have two suggestions to make:
There’s a fair number of shows appearing at fairly short notice as people scramble to adapt to relaxing regulations so this post will contain events for April not previously noted plus a look forward to May.
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