Classical music and opera events happening in and around Toronto for the week of Nov. 11 — 17.

The TSO, under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis, the Toronto Mendselssohn Choir, and a talented cast of singers, treat Toronto to a lively, nuanced performance in the nineteenth-century French grand opera tradition.

This album is pure pleasure, so much so that I feel guilty sharing it because the label suits will wake up and put him back in a catalogue box.

There was magic in the air on opening night of the National Ballet’s Giselle, with remarkable dancing and acting that brought the classic Romantic era ballet to life.

Soundstreams explores Indigenous opera by bringing together Cree opera Pimooteewin and Gállábártnit, a new work in Sámi, in Two Odysseys.

Abkhasian-Russian soprano Hibla Gerzmava returns to Toronto to wow audiences with an evening of vocalism by one of the most beautiful voices in front of the public today and a stage presence that’s larger than life.

Australian violinist Ray Chen talks about his approach to classical music, his favourite instruments, and repertoire in advance of his Toronto concert with pianist Julio Elizalde.

Classical music and opera events happening in and around Toronto for the week of November 4 to 10.

Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre are the last surviving double-decker theatres of the Edwardian era still in operation in the world.

Canadian theatre legends Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks latest collaboration is intriguing, subversive, provocative and unsettling.