Classical music and opera events for the week of February 14 to 20

This is a list of amazing concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between February 14 – 20, 2022. For more details on what’s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar here.

In-Person

Toronto Symphony Orchestra | Hewitt Plays Bach & Mozart

📅 Wednesday — February 16, 2022, 8 p.m. ET (Repeats Feb. 17 & 19)
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💸 $29+

It seems like ages that the legionary pianist Angela Hewitt has performed at Roy Thomson Hall. Join the master of the keyboard for an exciting program featuring program of Saint-Saëns’ Wedding Cake, Finzi’s Eclogue, J. S. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 2, BWV 1053. It also includes Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12. If you listen closely, you’ll hear a quotation of a theme from the overture to La calamita de’ cuori by Mozart’s former teacher in London, Johann Christian Bach. | Details

Opera Atelier | All Is Love

📅 Saturday — February 19, 2022, 8 p.m. ET (Repeats Feb. 20)
📍 LINK
💸 $49+

Opera Atelier’s much-anticipated return this week is one of the highlights of the entire season. Like a Valentine for Toronto, All is Love is a thematically based work exploring the utmost heart-fluttering state of being in love. The music mixes elements from French Baroque with French 19th and 20th Century repertoire. The cast is strong: Colin Ainsworth, Mireille Asselin, Measha Brueggergosman Meghan Lindsay, Danielle MacMillan, Cynthia Smithers, Douglas Williams, and Rémy Mathieu. If you’re going to see just one show this week, this is it. | Details

Royal Conservatory | Robert McDonald & Friends

📅 Sunday — February 20, 2022, 2 p.m. ET
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💸 $25+

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

Orchestra Toronto | Carmen

📅 Sunday — February 20, 2022, 3 p.m. ET
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💸 $45+

With winter in full swing, come warm up with a red-hot Spanish-inspired program from Orchestra Toronto featuring mezzo-soprano Julie Nesrallah. You’ll hear works by Elizabeth Raum, Manuel de Falla. Nesrallah will perform some of her favourite selections from Bizet’s Carmen as a special treat. It should be lots of fun. | Details

Trio Arkel | Quintessence

📅 Sunday — February 20, 2022, 3 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 $45+

Chamber music lovers take note! Trio Arkel, one of Toronto’s favourite groups, will be at Trinity St. Paul’s this week to perform string quintets by Mozart and Mendelssohn. For the music nerds out there, notice the incredible contrasts between these two string quintets, written just 40 years apart. Sheila Jaffé (viola) and Amanda Goodburn (violin) join as special guests. | Details

Online

Harbourfront Centre/Digidance | Via Kanana

📅 Wednesday — February 16, 2022, 8 p.m. ET (runs through Mar. 5, 2022)
📍 LINK
💸 PWYC

If you’ve never experienced gumboot dancing, you’re in for a treat. Streaming from South Africa, Kathlehong Dance and choreographer Gregory Maqoma bring a work based on a popular dance of street and protest of South Africa. | Details

New Music Concerts | 50th Anniversary Distanced Commissions

📅 Thursday — February 17, 2022, 8 p.m. ET
📍 LINK
💸 Free!

John Oswald is one of those composers who defy categorization. Listening to his music reveals an artist with an intense curiosity and clever ideas that help us see the world differently. New Music Concerts will be presenting an online performance with a distanced ensemble for John Oswald’s re-FUSE. | Details

Tafelmusik | The Gull, The Raccoon, And The Last Maple

📅 Thursday — February 17, 2022, 8 p.m. ET (Runs online through Feb. 21, 2022)
📍 LINK
💸 $10+

If you’re looking for a musical experience for the whole family, this is a good bet. It’s described as a contemporary fable for Baroque orchestra and narrator. The creative team behind it Tafelmusik’s music director Elisa Citterio, actress Amanda Cordner (Slo Pitch and Baroness Von Sketch Show), composer Abigail Richardson-Schulte (The Hockey Sweater), playwright Alexis Diamond, and director Jordan Laffrenier (Then They Fight Theatre). | Details

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