{"id":64866,"date":"2019-11-18T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=64866"},"modified":"2019-11-18T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:29:06","slug":"critics-picks-12-concerts-absolutely-need-see-toronto-week-november-18-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2019\/11\/18\/critics-picks-12-concerts-absolutely-need-see-toronto-week-november-18-24\/","title":{"rendered":"CRITIC’S PICKS | 12 Concerts You Absolutely Need To See In Toronto This Week (November 18 – 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Classical music and opera events happening in and around Toronto for the week of November 18 \u2013 24.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Critic\u2019s Picks (November 18 – 24)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ludwig van Toronto\u2019s weekly Critic\u2019s Picks are a curated list of some of the best concerts happening now through the end of the week. For a look at the full breadth of what\u2019s available in and around Toronto, check out our curated concert listings\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tuesday 19<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Canadian Opera Company<\/strong> | Moving Mirrors: Etudes for Piano. 12 p.m. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St. W. Free. Arrive early to secure a seat.<\/p>\n

Pianist-composer Nicolas Namoradze, laureate of the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary, plays a program that includes Scriabin \u00c9tudes Op. 42<\/em>, as well as his own compositions. | Details<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Toronto Faculty of Music<\/strong> | Early Music Concerts: King Arthur. 7:30 p.m. Trinity-St. Paul\u2019s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W. $30\/$20(sr)\/$10(st).<\/p>\n

Purcell\u2019s King Arthur<\/em>, \u201cbased on Dryden\u2019s text, draws the eye and ear with richly textured choral movements and beautiful song-writing.\u201d Harpsichordist\/conductor Christopher Bagan leads the Collegium Musicum and Schola Cantorum, with a new staging by Erik Thor. | Details<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday 20<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

National Ballet of Canada<\/strong> | Orpheus Alive and Chaconne. 7:30 p.m. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W. $41-$265. Repeats Nov. 21 (last)<\/p>\n

Final two performances of Robert Binet\u2019s gender-bending take on the Orpheus legend, with music by Missy Mazzoli. Read our review here<\/a>.<\/span> | Details<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/strong> | Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons. 8 p.m. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. $81-$181. Repeats Nov. 21.<\/p>\n

Last two performances of the Four Seasons<\/em>, led by concertmaster Jonathan Crow, plus Aaron Copland\u2019s Appalachian Spring<\/em>, and Yellowknife composer Carmen Braden\u2019s Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars<\/em>. | Details<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tapestry Opera<\/strong> | TAP:EX Augmented Opera. 8 p.m. Sidewalk Labs, 307 Lake Shore Blvd. E. $40. Repeats Nov. 21, 22, 23 at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

The adventurous Tapestry Opera presents TAP:EX Augmented Opera<\/em>, a work that \u201cdelves into the world of analog and digital storytelling augmentation, challenging our notion of what is real\u2026invites us to submerge ourselves in a night of experiential and experimental opera.\u201d Conceived by Tapestry Opera\u2019s Artistic Director Michael Mori, composer Benton Roark, and co-director Debi Wong. Soloists are Vanessa Oude-Reimerink, Lauren Segal and Lyndsay Promane. Michael Shannon, piano. | Details<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday 21<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

University of Toronto Faculty of Music<\/strong> | The Marriage of Figaro. 7:30 p.m. MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen\u2019s Park. $40\/$25(sr)\/$10(st). Repeats Nov. 22, 23, 24(mat.) Opera talk half hour before each performance.<\/p>\n

The U of T Opera goes back to the core repertoire with Mozart\u2019s The Marriage of Figaro<\/em> in its fall opera production. Nozze<\/em> is ranked sixth in popularity based on worldwide performance statistics (2004-18). It will be a new period production sung in Italian, designed by Fred Perruzza with costumes by Lisa Magill. Michael Patrick Albano directs and Sandra Horst conducts. | Details<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday 22<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/strong> | An American in Paris. 7:30 p.m. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe St. $41-$154. Repeats Nov. 23, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

American conductor Leonard Slatkin leads the TSO in an all-American program of Gershwin:\u00a0An American in Paris<\/em>; Barber: Piano Concerto Op. 38<\/em> (soloist Jon Kimura Parker); Bernstein: Overture to Candide;<\/em> and Corigliano: Elegy for Orchestra<\/em>. | Details<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Royal Conservatory of Music<\/strong> | Andrei Feher conducts the Royal Conservatory Orchestra. 8 p.m. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. $25-$60.<\/p>\n

Romanian-Canadian conductor Andrei Feher, Music Director of the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, leads the RCO in Shostakovich\u2019s Cello Concerto No. 1<\/em> with cellist Mansur Kadirov; and Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 1<\/em>. | Details<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday 24<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Royal Conservatory of Music<\/strong> | Songmasters Series: An Afternoon with Adrianne. 2 p.m. Mazzoleni Hall. $30. Sold Out.<\/p>\n

Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, newly appointed Vocal Chair and Head of Voice at the Glenn Gould School, is joined by pianist Rachel Andrist to present Wagner\u2019s Wesendonck-Lieder, Korngold\u2019s Four Shakespeare Songs, and works by Schubert and Strauss. | Details<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Royal Conservatory of Music<\/strong> | Yefim Bronfman. 3 p.m. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. $40-$95.<\/p>\n

Soviet-born, Israeli-American pianist Yefim Bronfman plays an all-Beethoven program of Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, op. 10, no. 1<\/em>; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Major, op. 10, no. 2<\/em>; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, op. 10, no. 3 ; and Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, op. 57 \u201cAppassionata.\u201d<\/em> | Details<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Toronto Symphony Orchestra<\/strong> | TSYO and Samuel Kerr 3 p.m. George Weston Recital Hall, 5040 Yonge St. $31.25.<\/p>\n

TSO RBC Resident Conductor Simon Rivard leads the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra in a program of Mussorgsky: St. John\u2019s Eve on Bald Mountain (original version)<\/em>; Ney Rosauro: Concerto No. 1 for Marimba<\/em> (with Samuel Kerr on the Marimba); Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3<\/em>; and Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5<\/em>. | Details<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mooredale Concerts<\/strong> | Vocal Recital: Wallis Giunta, mezzo. 3:15 p.m. Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto, 80 Queen\u2019s Park. $30-$45.<\/p>\n

Fast-rising Canadian mezzo Wallis Giunta was recently named Young Singer of the Year in the 2018 International Opera Awards. Formerly a Fest artist at Oper Leipzig, she\u2019s now a freelance artist. She sings songs by Barber, Britten, de Falla, Schumann, Sondheim and others. Steven Philcox is at the piano. | Details<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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