Classical music and opera events for the week of February 7 to 13

This is a list of amazing concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between February 7 to 13, 2022. For more details on what’s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar here.

In-Person

Royal Conservatory | Stewart Goodyear with the Penderecki String Quartet & Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (Online & In-person)

📅 Wednesday — February 9, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $20 (online) / $45+ (in-person)

If you were to see one event this week, you could do worse than three heavy hitters like this on the same bill. The program features the premiere of keyboard phenom Stewart Goodyear’s Piano Quintet and Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op. 125 (trans. Franz Liszt, S. 464/9), for solo piano, choir, and singers. It may be hard to get a ticket with the capacity limits, but there’s always online. | Details

Royal Conservatory | Tania Miller conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra

📅 Friday — February 11, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $25+

Conductor Tania Miller is in town to lead the Royal Conservatory Orchestra. As one of the best training orchestras in North America, it’s an excellent chance to see the faces of tomorrow’s orchestra players today. They will be playing works by Copland, Liszt and Dvořák. | Details

Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Valentine’s Soundtrack

📅 Saturday — February 12, 2022, 7:30 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $39

For the lovers out there looking to make plans for Valentine’s Day, we highly recommend a surprise concert with the Toronto Symphony. The program is full of romance: “My Heart Will Go On”, “I Will Always Love You”, “All of Me”, and tunes from The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, La La Land, and the iconic “Love Theme” from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet. | Details

Online

Canadian Music Centre | 7X Picanto Festival

📅 Tuesday — February 7, 2022, 12:00 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 Free

With the pandemic putting the proverbial stick on the wheels for live events, the folks at Picanto launched an online festival with music across Canada last week. Manitoba, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, British Columbia represent. Today is all about SHHH!! Ensemble, and the Ottawa New Music Creators. Every day is something new, so be sure to see the full lineup by clicking here: | Details

Musical Stage Company | Musical Theatre Passport

📅 Tuesday — February 8, 2022, 6:30 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $15

This event is part of the Musical Theatre Passport: an online event where you travel around the world to see a new musical from the comfort of your couch. Tonight you can take a virtual trip to Southwark Playhouse (UK)’s to see their production of hit musical John & Jen by Andrew Lippa, lyrics by Tom Greenwald. In this two-person musical, the focus is on a brother and sister, and later, her son of the same name. The 1995 Off-Broadway premiere of the musical was followed by a 2015 Off-Broadway revival. | Details

Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Bach’s Brandenburg & More

📅 Wednesday — February 9, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 Free!

Members of the TSO present an online performance of selections from Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto plus a few other Bach classics. This event also includes a performance of the winner of the Play-Along with Jonathan Crow All-Star Award, Chelsea Gu, violin. Looking forward to this one + it’s free! | Details

Confluence Concerts/Amplified Opera. The Butterfly Project: The Ballade of Chō-Chō San

📅 Friday — February 11, 2022, 7 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 Free!

One of Toronto’s most fascinating sopranos, Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野, will present a film examining Puccini’s Madama Butterfly from a racial and cultural lens. The following day they will give a two-day symposium, Grappling with Madama Butterfly Today: Representation, Reclamation, and Re-imagination. | Details

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