The nominations for the 2026 Juno awards have been announced and four of the nominees are recordings that I have reviewed here or elsewhere. Continue reading
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Looking forward to December
‘Tis the season of family holiday shows and Messiahs. Not that I’m planning to do much of either but here are some shows that you might be interested in…
- On December 7th, the earliest of the Messiahs. Toronto Choral Society have a matinée performance at Koerner Hall. Soloists include Quinn Kelsey and Teresa Tucci .
- The Ensemble Studio have a noon hour concert on December 9th in the RBA
- Rogers vs Rogers opens at Crow’s Theatre on December 10th. This is another adaptation by Michael Heaney of a book about Toronto shenanigans. He was also responsible for The Masterplan. Previews are the 2nd to the 9th with the run extending to January 3rd.
TSO opens season with an intriguing double bill
My review of last Thursday’s TSO season opener is now published on bachtrack.com.
Photo credit: Alan Cabral
Falling into September
Life slowly returns to some version of normal.. Here’s what I’m seeing so far for Sptember.
- 5th September – Apocryphonia have a PWYC concert at St. Thomas’ Huron Street featuring music from the Hundred Years War.
- 11th September – Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin opens at Soulpepper. Previews are the 4th to the 10th with the run extending to October 5th.
Poska and Goodyear team up with the TSO to good effect
My review of the TSO’s concert on Wednesday night with Stewart Goodyear and Kristiina Poska is now up at Bachtrack.
Photo credit: Allan Cabral, courtesy of the TSO
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Looking ahead to June
Things slow down just a little bit in June but with both Luminato and Opera 5’s Opera festival it’s not that quiet. Here’s what’s coming down:
- June 5th to 7th at Daniels Spectrum there’s Nigamon/Tunai; an exploration of Indigenous perspectives from North and South America (part of Luminato)
- June 6th at Metropolitan United Krisztina Szabó leads in Queen of the Night Communion, another Luminato show.
May 2025
Here are my top picks for May.
- The Cunning Linguist opens at Factory Theatre on May 1st. Previews are April 26th, 27th and 30th and it runs to May 11th. A young queer Mexican woman, with her sidekick God, decides to move to Toronto…
- Eugene Onegin in the Robert Carsen production opens May 2nd at the COC. Runs until May 24th.
- On May 3rd Confluence has a Teiya Kasahara curated show called Project T: Home Video (this is a change from the originally scheduled May 2nd/3rd show).
Mahler and more at the TSO
My review of last night’s concert at Roy Thomson Hall featuring the TSO, Anna Prohaska and the Spanish ambassador is now up at La Scena Musicale.
Photo credit: Jae Yang
Carried by the River
Diana Tso’s Carried by the River is currently playing in the Extraspace at Tarragon Theatre in a production directed by William Yong for the Red Snow Collective. It’s the story of a Chinese girl, Kai, who is abandoned by her birth mother because of the “one child policy”, adopted by a Hong Kong mother and brought to Canada as a baby. When she’s about twenty her mother dies unexpectedly leaving her with many unanswered questions. She travels to the province of her birth in search of.. do we ever know what we “are in search of”?
March 2025
So what looks fun in March?
- March 1st (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant) Apocryphonia have a “classical meets punk” concert called Brews, Beauties and Brawlers at St. Olave’s Anglican Church at 7.30pm. PWYC.
- March 5th Canadian Art Song Project have their annual gig at noon in the RBA.
- Crow’s Theatre have a new adaptation of Measure for Measure in the Studio Theatre. Previews on the 6th and 7th, opening on the 8th and running to March 16th.
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