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CRITIC’S PICKS | Classical Music Occasions You Completely Want To See This Week: July 28 – August 3


Soprano Lauren Margison (Picture courtesy of the artist); Countertenor Franco Fagioli (Picture: Clarissa Lapolla); Terry Lim, flutist and Creative Director of Caledon Music Pageant, performs on the Davis Sunflower Farm in 2024 (Picture courtesy of Caledon Music Pageant)

This can be a listing of concert events we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or fascinated by attending between July 28 and August 3, 2025. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.

Toronto Summer time Music: Franco Fagioli: The Final Castrato

Tuesday, July 29, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+

Franco Fagioli, one of many most interesting countertenors of our time, joins l’Opéra Royal de Versailles below the baton of Stefan Plewniak this Tuesday night with a program that includes the perfect works impressed and written for the final nice castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti. Fagioli, who’s been featured in main opera homes on the planet, together with Salzburg and Covent Backyard, is an actual deal with in a dwell efficiency, particularly within the beautiful acoustic of Koerner Corridor. Come by and take refuge from the new, noisy metropolis summer season, and sink into the fantastic thing about this explicit repertoire, and be mesmerized by the range and fantastic thing about the human voice. Learn our Interview with Franco Fagioli right here. Information right here.

Toronto Live performance Orchestra: Romeo & Juliet and Tales of Different Star-Crossed Lovers

Tuesday, July 29, 8 p.m.
Palais Royale Ballroom, 1601 Lakeshore Blvd., $30+

After a sold-out season opener final week, TCO presents a program weaving all-time vocal favourites from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Puccini’s La bohème, Massenet’s Werther, to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Bernstein’s West Aspect Story, that includes soloists Lynn Anoush Isnar and Colin Ainsworth. TCO’s summer season concert events at Palais Royale are a terrific mix of low-key summer season enjoyable with time-tested musical favourites by the attractive lakeside. TCO’s deal with making classical music accessible and pleasing to all individuals is a vital one — as sacred as the humanities could also be, we should do not forget that the humanities exist merely to carry magnificence into everybody’s life, with out the inflexible wall that always exists, particularly within the classical music scene. If the concept of summer season breeze over a straightforward glass of a favorite drink, with passionate dwell classical music tickles your fancy, get your tickets quickly and head to the lakeside for this summer season weeknight gem. Information right here.

Worldwide Congress of Voice Academics: Lauren Margison in Live performance

Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $48+

The Worldwide Congress of Voice Academics convention, July 31 – August 3, invitations all singers, voice lecturers, artists, and colleges to share and construct additional information and techniques for the way forward for voice schooling, and it occurs each 4 years. For this 12 months, it’s hosted in Toronto by three establishments: the Nationwide Affiliation of Academics of Singing, the Royal Conservatory, and the School of Music, College of Toronto. This live performance highlights the intention of the convention: to showcase the artistry that the ICVT goals to create and assist. Margison, a well-known face in Toronto — she is an alumna of the Canadian Opera Firm Ensemble Studio, in addition to quite a few performances in the course of the TD Toronto Jazz Pageant, and the Seashores Jazz Pageant — is a good option to carry a combined program of classical, jazz, and pop favs. And a terrific option to grace a Saturday night. Information right here.

Caledon Music Pageant: Track and Dance

Saturday, August 2, 7:15 p.m.
Davis Household Farm, 15770 Mountainview Rd, Caledon East, ON L7C 2V2, $45, low cost tickets accessible

Davis Household Farm, one of many largest sunflower fields and a favorite place for visible social media followers, hosts the Caledon Music Pageant this Saturday night. A mixture of instrumental and vocal numbers together with works of Piaf, Jacques Brel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, to Piazzolla and Arvo Pärt, this 90-minute program is an effective way to have fun the riches of Ontario summer season. Get out to the nation and take a breather and recharge with the fantastic sunflowers — it’s a really beautiful place. Learn our Interview with Caldeon Music Pageant Creative Director Terry Lim right here. Information right here.

Toronto Summer time Music: TSM Finale

Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+

After so many nice applications involving visiting visitor artists, mentors, pageant fellows, and the Group Program, since July tenth, Toronto Summer time Music presents its last live performance of the pageant on this Saturday night. Come out and assist this superb group of people that have so generously shared their ardour and musical ideas, and bid them a farewell — until subsequent 12 months! Information right here.

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