Before the exceptionally fine Mozart-via-Joel Ivany and Christopher Mokrzewski last night (my review here), the best update of a core-reperotire opera I’d seen this season was Michael Mayer’s Rat Pack early-1960s Las Vegas take on Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera.

Classical music and opera events happening in and around Toronto for the week of Oct. 16 to 22.

Aldeburgh co-founders and co-artistic directors Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata decided that their 31st concert season would be their last.

I can’t help feeling that Doors Open Toronto, our annual celebration of interesting architectural spaces, is missing an opportunity to extend itself by mixing more arts activity — especially music — into its programming.

The Cecilia String Quartet, Quartet Fellows at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Glenn Gould Professional School, expects Analekta to release its all-Dvorák début album next month:

This does not mean a quick polish or two-hours of warmup, or even a last-minute tuning.

What was then called Melbourne Concert Hall opened in 1982, the same year as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s new home. Two years earlier, a third symphony auditorium with acoustician Theodore Schultz’s stamp on in had opened in San Francisco.

The first programme, on Nov. 11, is built around Arnold Schoenberg’s masterpiece Verklärte Nacht — in a version for violin, cello and piano.

The Toronto Symphony’s Adrian Fung has resigned as Vice-President, Innovation, effective July 14, 2017.

Walk through the back corridors of a sports club or a dance company, and you’ll find a small battalion of therapists ready to help the athletes and dancers cope with the wear and tear on their bodies.