{"id":2506,"date":"2012-03-26T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2012-03-26T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:22:07","slug":"march-26-toronto-classical-concert-highlights-for-the-next-seven-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/03\/26\/march-26-toronto-classical-concert-highlights-for-the-next-seven-days\/","title":{"rendered":"March 26: Toronto classical concert highlights for the next seven days"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2509\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sbquartet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2509\" title=\"sbquartet\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sbquartet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/sbquartet.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/sbquartet-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venezuela's El Sistema-born Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar String Quartet shows off its musical talents at University of Toronto's Walter Hall on Monday at 7:30 p.m.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MONDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar String Quartet at Walter Hall, 7:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar String Quartet hails from the same place and time as the symphony orchestra with the same name, as wellas\u00a0 superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Violinists Alejandro Carre\u00f1o and Boris Suar\u00e9z, violist Ismel Campos and cellist Aimon Mata are products of Venezuela&#8217;s El sistema, which provides state-sponsored music education to any schoolchildren willing and able to pick up an instrument or sing a song.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the quartet &#8212; all of whom perform with the country&#8217;s flagship youth orchestra &#8212; are intimate-scale examples of the passion and energy that permeate every aspect of musicmaking in the South American country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They are also living, breathing proof that all children, not just those in financially flush school districts, can thrive when given opportunities to make music together.<\/p>\n<p>The programme features string quartet staples from Joseph Haydn (Op. 74, No. 1) and Franz Schubert (No. 14 &#8212; &#8220;Death and the Maiden&#8221;) as well as Alberto Ginastera&#8217;s electrifying <em>String Quartet No. 1<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For more info and tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.music.utoronto.ca\/events\/calendar\/cms0326.htm?ViewMode=View&amp;DateTime=634683870000000000&amp;PageMode=View\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Venezuelans follow up their recital with a free master class at Walter Hall, starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the quartet at work, first with the second movement of the Ginastera piece (I apologise for the poor quality), then they show off their intensity very nicely in the fourth movement of Dmitri Shostakovich&#8217;s <em>String Quartet No. 8<\/em>, Op. 110:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PESF1J6Y0Hc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdbCGQ4X6tA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>TUESDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2512\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hamelin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2512\" title=\"Hamelin\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hamelin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/hamelin.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/hamelin-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/hamelin-1024x741.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin in concert at last year's Lucerne Festival (Priska Ketterer photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Pianist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcandrehamelin.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin<\/a> at the Jane Mallett Theatre, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one piano recital to attend this season, this is it, as Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin makes one of his regular stops with Music Toronto bearing a fascinating concert programme that is as serious as it is entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>He offers up two landmark <em>Sonatas<\/em>: Franz Liszt&#8217;s warhorse in B minor, as well as Alban Berg&#8217;s fascinating journey into the beginnings of atonality. Hamelin leavens the big works with <em>Pr\u00e9ludes<\/em> 15, 16, 23 and 24 from Claude Debussy&#8217;s second book, as well as five selections from his own compositions: <em>Etudes<\/em> 8, 2, 7, 11, and 12 from his own set of 12 in minor keys.<\/p>\n<p>Hamelin, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperion-records.co.uk\/al.asp?al=CDA67760\" target=\"_blank\">most recent album for Hyperion<\/a>, featuring the Liszt <em>Sonata<\/em>, has a chance of winning a Juno Award this coming weekend, has fully embraced the ethos of the Golden Age of the piano, where the performer was also composer. He is not a showy artist on stage, but his seemingly insatiable need to push himself results in some pretty amazing feats of technique as well as musicianship.<\/p>\n<p>For more info and tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/music-toronto.com\/2011-2012-season\/marc-andre-hamelin\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are &#8220;Homage to Scarlatti,&#8221; No.6 of Hamelin&#8217;s <em>12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys<\/em>, which is not on Tuesday&#8217;s programme, followed by No.7, &#8220;Lullaby, After Tchaikovsky,&#8221; for left-hand only:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DiQJwcYiTWg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dgzq2gBUgng?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>WEDNESDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2519\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/juilliard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2519\" title=\"juilliard\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/juilliard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/juilliard.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/juilliard-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Juilliard String Quartet (Nan Melville photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juilliardstringquartet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juilliard String Quartet<\/a> at Markham Theatre, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Juilliard Quartet, which has a long and glorious history dating back to the aftermath of World War II, hasn&#8217;t been in these parts for a while. Since last season, they have had a new first violin, Joseph Lin, who was born years after violist Samuel Rhodes and cellist Joel Krosnick joined the quartet (the other violinist, Ronald Copes, joined in 1997).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have an interview with Lin posted on this site in a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>The programme for the Markham Theatre recital starts with Joseph Haydn (the G Major quartet, Op. 54, No. 1) and ends with Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s monumental Op. 130 quartet in B-flat, complete with its original <em>Grosse Fuge<\/em> ending. Sandwiched between the two is late Bostonian modernist Donald Martino&#8217;s <em>Quartet No. 5<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For concert details and tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markham.ca\/wps\/portal\/Markham\/RecreationCulture\/MarkhamTheatre\/WhatsOn\/!ut\/p\/c5\/tY_JjqMwGISfJQ-Q-LfN4hw9xgGHLWxJ4BJlb8IQUJOVpx96pNFoDn2cquOnUulDBRp63T7K8_ZWNtftT7RGhbHRQlsIb8kiEmsASllLPbAinBr6wPMvbsbEy6jPLZeDyrgOjicImMbvNYu5mAUQLY3FsJZyRsxFSABMtEJr0DbJ5d2qvurjSx_1Sdbg4KKevqzBl-SVyjckVv5OJA58M_Bvnz-U3yvA3RQvZ5HkdimObTRCc1SUu3ry3NcTmFBDBzoFjYJODU2fDk_FPyZRZNPBxOG68ikIHf_h35t8cfgmHFCOCvOva2D7GJQ_tebYzDBoBkr_lysjQAydmRrTgJmYoJWXP02rU08p00VVe7ujrLYvWSkaz3ck5Kf-o3QICT8CdxE_glla4qarxEa-XILhQK27W_AH35-C8XxflbsV7yS1xwrHxVkdTve1c2xdx03Yp0rGO0c0TsweeasthN3JNrp14kKDdhzer5szsPR9uE6XummkzUHPBB9np-eGWyfHy8NoNEKB09RH1NbZo6pihhk9_wKO6eHX\/dl3\/d3\/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh\/?pcid=64be32004a85d9aa8c20eef69c88f213\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit more on Lin and the Beethoven:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c0bEx5Ce2UU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>THURSDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cecilia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2522\" title=\"cecilia\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cecilia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/cecilia.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/cecilia-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ceciliastringquartet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cecilia String Quartet<\/a> at Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, 1:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Women&#8217;s Musical Club of Toronto hosts the Cecilia String Quartet, which is really coming into its own as a strong, respected young group.<\/p>\n<p>Violinists Min-Jeong Koh and Sarah Nematallah, violist Caitlin Boyle and cellist Rachel Desoer offer a substantial and varied programme: Mozart&#8217;s <em>String Quartet No. 16<\/em> in E Flat major, K. 428; <em>String Quartet Op. 108 No. 7<\/em>, by Dmitri Shostakovich; Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s F Major <em>String Quartet No. 16<\/em>, Op. 135; Giacomo Puccini&#8217;s <em>Crisantemi<\/em>; and <em>Commedia dell\u2019arte<\/em>, by Montreal-based composer Ana Sokolovic.<\/p>\n<p>For all the concert details, and for tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmct.on.ca\/concerts.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a bit of background on the Cecilias, followed by a performance of the ever-haunting Crisantemi:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKx45vNKL0k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mjYftYsLXfM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2523\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/esprit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2523\" title=\"esprit\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/esprit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/esprit.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/esprit-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esprit Orchestra and music director Alex Pauk, at Koerner Hall (Bo Huang photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espritorchestra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esprit Orchestra<\/a> at Koerner Hall, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The final concert of the season for the city&#8217;s only full orchestra devoted to new music features pianist Jamie Parker performing <em>Piano Concerto No. 3<\/em> by Canadian composer Harry Somers (Parker and Esprit produced a gorgeously expansive, sparkling recording of the classically structured three-movement work in 2000 for now-defunct CBC Records).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty of other great, newer music on the programme, including the premiere of a new commission from young Quebec composer Jimmie LeBlanc.<\/p>\n<p>For all the details, and tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espritorchestra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2524\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/schade.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2524\" title=\"schade\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/schade.jpg?w=201\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/schade.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/schade-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Schade (Werner Kmetitsch photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Tenor Michael Schade introduces baritone Luca Pisaroni to Roy Thomson Hall, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of Toronto&#8217;s great international stars is back in town for an evening of art song. The concert was supposed to feature tenor Michael Schade&#8217;s friend, the great German baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who decided after this recital was booked that the time had come to stop singing in public.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than cancel the concert, Schade convinced young Italian baritone Luca Pisaroni to join him on stage for a programme of Lieder by Mozart, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and, for accessible Canadian content, John Greer.<\/p>\n<p>The duo warmed up for Toronto with a recital at Alice Tully Hall in New York City on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more on this later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>For more details and tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/roythomson.com\/eventdetail?eventId=821\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interculturaljourneys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intercultural Journeys Ensemble<\/a> at Koerner Hall, 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is one of those barrier-breaking concerts that promises to stimulate the head, the heart as well as the gut. It also defies a quick description.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the programmers describe it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Creating lightening-rod moments\u00a0of connection through music,\u00a0<em><\/em><em>Vivaldi Gone Wild,<\/em>\u00a0improvisations on\u00a0<em><\/em><em>Prayer for Peace<\/em>, Simon Shaheen&#8217;s\u00a0<em><\/em><em>Dance Mediterranea<\/em><em><\/em><em>,<\/em>\u00a0and other works are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra&#8217;s Israeli-born cellist Udi Bar-David, Palestinian violinist Hanna Khoury, Syrian-Venezuelan percussionist Hafez El Ali Kotain, Syrian singer Youssef Kassab, Egyptian-Canadian qanun master George Sawa, and Cantor Beny Maissner of\u00a0Toronto&#8217;s Holy Blossom [congregation].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information and tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/performance.rcmusic.ca\/event\/intercultural-journeys\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are Bar-David, Khoury and Morales-Matos at work during one of their Intercultural Journeys concerts, with I virtuosi italiani:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pf1qri8pD9k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2530\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shannon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2530\" title=\"shannon\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shannon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/shannon.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/shannon-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soprano Shanon Mercer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Opera in Concert presents Franz Schubert&#8217;s <em>Die Freunde von Salamaka<\/em> at the Jane Mallett Theatre, 2:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We associate Franz Schubert (1797-1828) with art song, piano and symphony, but not opera. This wasn&#8217;t for lack of ambition on his part. Schubert really wanted to be an opera composer, but never managed to have much success with it during his short lifetime (he left a sketch for a pretty good final opera, <em>The Count of Gleichen<\/em>, which was deciphered, orchestrated and premiered by Austrian composer Richard D\u00fcnser in 2003).<\/p>\n<p>Opera in Concert presents what it believes is the Canadian premiere of <em>Die Freunde von Salamanka<\/em> (The Friends from Salamaka), one of Schubert&#8217;s five <em>Singspiels<\/em> (light operas with spoken text, like Mozart&#8217;s <em>Magic Flute<\/em>), with a fresh English translation.<\/p>\n<p>The solo cast features the wonderful soprano Shannon Mercer, as well as talented young tenor Michael Ciufo.<\/p>\n<p>Conductor Kevin Mallon leads the Toronto Chamber Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, and tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operainconcert.com\/fedelta.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the late, great Hermann Prey singing\u00a0&#8220;Man ist so gl\u00fccklich und so frei,&#8221; from Act I of <em>Die Freunde von Salamanka<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/poOuQOF39XE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar String Quartet at Walter Hall, 7:30 p.m. The Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar String Quartet hails from the same place and time as the symphony orchestra with the same name, as wellas\u00a0 superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel. 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