This can be a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or fascinated by attending between July 21 and 27, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Toronto Summer time Music: Allison Au: Migrations
Monday, July 21, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+
It’s beautiful to have such riches throughout the conventional summer time break, due to Toronto Summer time Music — each the variability and excellence of programming have been improbable this 12 months, but once more. For this Monday, Au brings her work, Migrations, to the stage with the Migrations ensemble hybrid: Jazz combo and string quartet. Because the doorways proceed to close and the fences get greater for a lot of, the need of discovering a spot to name one’s personal, and the harrowing trials and quiet traumas that include such searches, can simply really feel surreal to these of us who’ve been fortunate — to this point. Nevertheless, I hope you agree that it’s migrations, the circulate of individuals and tradition which have made us who we’re, bringing the riches we take as a right, particularly in Toronto, probably the most numerous cities on the earth. Come and open your minds and ears to this improbable work, first premiered in January 2020 for the 21C Music Pageant; it was launched as a studio album in 2022, however there’s nothing extra visceral than a real-time human connection. Data right here.
DROM Taberna: Tuesday Night Swing Dance with Max Simpson Quintet
Tuesday, July 22, 8 p.m.
DROM Taberna, 458 Queen St West, $15 on the door
The Improbable DROM hosts many fantastic reside music teams, and Tuesdays are for swing dance with a reside band! This week, Max Simpson Quintet will carry power and enjoyable, and a touch (or heaps) of reckless abandon and swing vitality to Queen West. If summer time night breezes dare you to strive one thing completely different, this simply is likely to be the factor — see what your ft say when you arrive! The spontaneity and informality of those reside band dance classes are so infectious: it’s good to be reminded that rhythm is an power phenomenon, not only a sonic occasion that we sit and admire with reverence. Data right here.
Toronto Summer time Music. Lacking: In Live performance
Thursday, July 24, 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $20+
A couple of years in the past, I picked up a e-book from the Toronto Public Library’s really useful studying shelf: Freeway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid. Ever since then, at any time when I hear about lacking ladies, my coronary heart drops — particularly if it includes an Indigenous lady. The quiet complacency that we selected over these lacking ladies over a long time of Canadian historical past is actually horrifying, and such a taboo topic wants our voices and a spotlight desperately. Brian Present (composer) and Marie Clements (librettist)’s live performance efficiency of Lacking, will function Continuum Ensemble and acquainted voices, together with Marion Newman as Dr. Wilson, and Asitha Tennekoon as Devon. Not all arts can simply be stunning — typically it’s the laborious, ugly aspect of actuality that makes us human, and although it’s tempting to chase after the highs, it’s essential, and necessary, to look into the depths of our troubles and the sufferings inside our communities. Learn our Interview with conductor Timothy Lengthy, soprano Melody Braveness, and mezzo-soprano Marion Newman right here. Data right here.
Summer time Opera Lyric Theatre: L’Incoronazione di Poppea / Cosi Fan Tutti / La Vie Parisienne
Friday, July 25, 8 p.m. (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Saturday, July 26, 2 p.m. (Cosi), Saturday, July 26, 8 p.m. (La Vie Parisienne), Sunday, July 27, 2 p.m. (Cosi) Efficiency proceed to August 3.
Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley St., $22+, $60 move for all three operas out there
SOLT, a summer time fixture program the place younger singers and pianist/administrators can unfold their wings broad to create an opera expertise, hits its first weekend of performances. This summer time, three operas are on the invoice: L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi; Music Director/Pianist: Sabina Rzazade), Cosi Fan Tutti (Mozart; Music Director/Pianist: Minira Najafzade), and La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach; Music Director/Pianist: Paul Goodfellow). It’s an effective way to expertise opera on an intimate scale, and with such a range, there’ll be one thing to swimsuit everybody! Come to expertise that particular power from younger artists as they fight their palms at these nice operas. Data right here.
Elora Pageant: Janina Fialkowska in Recital
Saturday, July 26, 4 p.m.
St. John’s Anglican Church, 36 Henderson St., Elora, $55 Grownup/$20 Pupil/$10 Youngster
Fialkowska, identified for her beautiful Chopin interpretation and mentorship with Arthur Rubinstein, brings an attractive program of Grieg, Schumann, Ravel, and Chopin to stunning Elora. It’s a pleasure to go out within the Ontario summer time to the countryside — come out for this beautiful matinee live performance in gorgeous Elora, earlier than gently heading again to the town, with coronary heart stuffed with broad house and sweetness. Learn our Preview right here. Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At the moment working within the area of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many alternative issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
