{"id":95911,"date":"2023-04-24T10:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=95911"},"modified":"2023-04-24T10:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:34:43","slug":"critics-picks-classical-events-absolutely-need-see-week-april-24-april-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2023\/04\/24\/critics-picks-classical-events-absolutely-need-see-week-april-24-april-30\/","title":{"rendered":"CRITIC’S PICKS | Classical Events You Absolutely Need To See This Week: April 24 \u2013 April 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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L-R (clockwise): Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras (Photo courtesy of the TSO); Verdi’s Macbeth (Photo courtesy of the COC); Samuel Mari\u00f1o (Photo: Olivier Allard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a list of concerts we are attending, wishing we could attend, or thinking about attending between April 24 and April 30, 2023. For more details on what\u2019s happening around Toronto, visit our calendar here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Toronto Symphony Orchestra\/Jean-Guihen Queyras\/Fabian Gabel<\/h3>\n

Wednesday April 26 at 8 p.m. (repeats Friday April 28 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday April 29 at 8 p.m.). Roy Thomson Hall. $72+<\/p>\n

Fabien Gabel, the French former music director of the Orchestre symphonique de Qu\u00e9bec, starts this colourful program with the North American premiere of Laniakea, a pulsing piece by his young compatriot Camille P\u00e9pin, and ends it with Ravel\u2019s lavish Daphnis et Chlo\u00e9 Suite No. 2. In between we hear Stravinsky\u2019s early Le Chant du rossignol and two items by Tchaikovsky \u2014 the Rococo Variations and Andante Cantabile \u2014 with another Frenchman, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, as soloist. Info here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Canadian Opera Company\/Macbeth<\/h3>\n

Friday April 28 at 7:30 p.m. (repeats Sunday April 30 at 2 p.m., plus May 6, 12, 14, 17 and 20). Four Seasons Centre. $55+<\/p>\n

Verdi\u2019s vigorous early masterpiece is the only non-revival of the mainstage COC season. Sir David McVicar\u2019s production (first seen in Chicago in 2021) promises appropriately historical if stylized visuals. The noted Hawaiian baritone Quinn Kelsey plays the murderous monarch of the title and the Bulgarian soprano Alexandrina Pendatchanska plays Lady Macbeth. Speranza Scappucci, the first female Italian to conduct at La Scala, is in the pit. Limited ticket availability. Info here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tafelmusik\/Samuel Mari\u00f1o<\/h3>\n

Friday April 28 at 8 p.m. (repeats Saturday April 29 at 2 p.m.). Open rehearsal Thursday April 27 at 11 a.m. Jeanne Lamon Hall. $25+ (rehearsal $5)<\/p>\n

Tafelmusik presents this 29-year-old Venezuelan male soprano \u2014 so designated because his voice never broke \u2014 in a recital of arias by Handel, Vivaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti and Johann Adoph Hasse. Take note of an open rehearsal Thursday at 11 a.m. General admission to this is $5. Read our preview here<\/a><\/strong>. Info here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Royal Conservatory Orchestra\/William Eddins<\/h3>\n

Friday April 28 at 8 p.m. Koerner Hall. $25+<\/p>\n

The former music director of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra leads the RCM students in Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Concerto for Orchestra and works by John Estacio (Wondrous Light, a celebration of the Aurora Borealis) and Gabriel Piern\u00e9 (Concertst\u00fcck for Harp and Orchestra with Ben Albertson as soloist). A free webcast is available at RoyalConservatory-Live<\/a><\/strong>. Info here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Classical music and opera events in Toronto for the week of April 24 to 30, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":95912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40430,74,76,19,3895,43,63],"tags":[40013,4647,40080,3585],"yst_prominent_words":[8345,8853],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/CRITICS-PICKS-Apr-24-2023.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-oWX","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95913,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95911\/revisions\/95913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95911"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=95911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}