This page is a compendium of mostly free stuff so that I don’t have to keep sending emails to people event-by-event, and so that you, dear readers, don’t have to find those emails when you want them.
Last updated November 12, 2025 at 9:00 pm
Coming Soon / Recent Additions
Wiener Staatsoper:
- Dec 19/25: Beethoven: Fidelio
- Dec 31/25: Strauß: Die Fledermaus
- Jan 17/26: Massanet: Manon
- Feb 6/26: Verdi: La Traviata
Wigmore Hall:
- Nov 24/25: Nardus Williams soprano; Elizabeth Kenny lute
- Dec 2/25: Elisabeth Brauss, piano
Directory
- Amici Chamber Ensemble
- Angela Hewitt
- Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
- Art of Time
- Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Sweden)
- Holland Baroque
- Koerner Hall
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra
- National Film Board
- National Theatre (UK)
- Tapestry Opera
- Toronto Summer Music
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Trio Arkel
- University of Toronto Faculty of Music
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Wigmore Hall (London)
Canadian Artists/Companies/Venues
Amici Chamber Ensemble
- Celebrating Canada with Mireille Asselin
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Our Finest Hour
- Music by Finzi and Elgar
- Armenian Treasures
- American Berserk
- Music by John Adams, T.J. Anderson, John Corigliano and Charles Ives
Angela Hewitt
- Recital from the Chopin Institute on YouTube: Bach, Mozart & Chopin
Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
- Piano Recitals:
- Alexander Panizza plays Chopin
- Younggun Kim plays Poulenc, Albéniz, Chopin, Bach/Busoni, Piazzola
- Alexander Malikov plays Haydn and Moussorgsky
- Ben Smith plays Handel, Beethoven, Glazunov and Medtner
- Jean-Luc Therrien plays Jacques Hétu, David McIntyre (Alberta), Debussy and Liszt
- Elena Howard-Scott, soprano with Peter Tiefenbach, piano
- Alex Liedtke Oboe Recital with Zsolt Bognár, piano
Art of Time
There are many excerpts from past concerts on YouTube.
Koerner Hall / Royal Conservatory of Music
There are many concerts/recitals in their library.
Tapestry Opera
- Our Song D’Hiver with Mireille Asselin and Frédéric Lacroix
Toronto Summer Music
The 2025 TSM season is concluded. Several performances from previous years are available in their library.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The TSO has announced its 2025/26 season.
Trio Arkel
Trio Arkel is now Arkel Chamber Concerts. They will no longer be streaming concerts, but will provide excerpts on their website and Facebook.
USA Artists/Companies/Venues
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
The 2025 festival ran from August 1 to 16.
Across the Pond
Concertgebouw Orchestra
There is a large library of free concerts available from the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam including a performance conducted by the TSO’s music director, Gustavo Gimeno. Note that you will have to first create an account on their site to access the older material, but after that it’s a big collection including the complete Mahler symphonies.
Leeds International Piano Competition
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
The GSO has a page with their upcoming concerts and links to previously archived ones.
- Clips from past concerts will go live on August 28.
- The season opening will be live streamed on September 5, and excerpts will be available on September 25.
London Philharmonic Orchestra
A series of concerts is available free on Marquee TV for 48 hours after initial posting. You must create a free account on Marquee TV to watch. These are advertised but are not reliably posted during the “free” period which can last longer than advertised.
London Symphony Orchestra
No concerts are currently available.
L’orchestre de Paris
- Sol Gabetta, Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2; Klaus Mäkelä, conductor
National Theatre
The National Theatre in London, UK, has an NT at Home program allowing subscription access to their library of plays with a choice of monthly or a discounted annual payment. Recent additions to the online library are Hamlet and Frankenstein (both casts), Ian McKellen On Stage, and Lear with McKellen in the lead role.
Wiener Staatsoper
To view screenings from the Staatsoper, you must create an account, but then they are free. Normally they are available for 72 hours from the live broadcast. Current listings are on their calendar page.
Wigmore Hall
You will need to create an account to watch stuff from Wigmore Hall, but it’s free! The streaming list is available here.
Time Limited Streams
- Christian Tetzlaf violin; Leif Ove Andsnes piano
- Midori violin; Özgür Aydin piano
- Beethoven, Brahms, C Schumann and Ravel
- Anja Mittermüller mezzo-soprano; Richard Fu piano
- Grieg, Marx, Rachmaninov
- Cantoría
Plus more in their library
Archive
National Film Board
The National Film Board has a lot of free online content including their animation page. Of course this includes the ever popular Blackberry Subway Jam.
A series of shorts on recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award:
- Congratulations, Mr. Levy celebrates the self-promoting Eugene Levy (2008)
- Brian Macdonald, Virtuoso Eclectic (2008)
- Source with Margie Gillis (2011)
- William Shatner sings O Canada with some amendments along the way (2011)
- Des McAnuff in Mise en Scène (2012)
- Eric Peterson in Canadian Famous (2013)
- Brent Carver: Home Through the Night (2014)
- Solo: A Portrait of Angela Hewitt (2018)
- Rick Mercer Take Action Figures (2019)
- The Afterlifetime of Colm Feore (2019)
University of Toronto Faculty of Music
- Monica Whicher, mezzo; Steven Philcox, piano
- Scott St. John, violin; Angela Park, piano; Ethan Allers, cello; Kevin Weiss, clarinet
- Vocal Master Class with Adrianne Pieczonka
- Vocal Master Classes with Joyce DiDonato:
- Winners’ Recital of the Norcop and Koldofsky prizes:
- Alex Hetherington, mezzo-soprano and Dakota Scott-Digout, piano
- Katy Clark & Jialiang Zhu
- Maeve Palmer & Joel Goodfellow
- Jamal Al Titi and collaborative pianist Indra Egan
- Vocal Master Classes with Susan Graham
Holland Baroque
- Violinist Aislinn Nosky and Holland Baroque play a program of music by Telemann in the Polish style.
- Bach: Art of Fugue arranged for string quartet and harpsichord