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 May 13, 2022 at 9:15 pm.
Mon May 16
- Wigmore Hall
- Gringolts Quartet (Avl to Aug 14/22)
- Schoenberg and Stravinsky
- Gringolts Quartet (Avl to Aug 14/22)
Thurs May 19
- Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra 1:15 pm (19.15 CET) Live Stream
- Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor
- Vikingur Olafsson, piano
- Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
- Adams: Must the Devil have all the good tunes?
- Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7
Sat May 21
- London Philharmonic Orchestra (Avl for 48 hours)
- Mozart: Requiem
Mon May 23
- Wigmore Hall
- Catriona Morison mezzo-soprano; Julius Drake piano (Avl to Aug 21/22)
- Brahms, Elgar and R Schumann
- Catriona Morison mezzo-soprano; Julius Drake piano (Avl to Aug 21/22)
Directory
- Against The Grain Theatre
- Amici Chamber Ensemble
- Angela Hewitt
- Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
- Art of Time
- Canadian Opera Company
- Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (Sweden)
- Handel & Haydn Society (Boston)
- Holland Baroque
- Koerner Hall
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra
- National Film Board
- National Theatre (UK)
- Opera Atelier
- Russell Braun & Carolyn Maule
- Soulpepper Theatre
- Stratford Festival
- Tafelmusik
- Tapestry Opera
- Toronto Consort
- Toronto Summer Music
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Trio Arkel
- University of Toronto Faculty of Music
- University of Washington Meany Center
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Wigmore Hall (London)
Canadian Artists/Companies/Venues
Against the Grain Theatre
No current attractions.
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
Art of Time
There are many excerpts from past concerts on YouTube. Andrew Burashko, AOT’s Artistic Director, has announced that future seasons will be dedicated to joint projects with other groups rather than a return to the long-running concert series at Harbourfront.
Canadian Opera Company
The COC is offering a free digital season for 2021/22 including:
- Mozart: Requiem (Avl to May 27, 2022)
- In Winter (Avl to June 18/2022)
- Jane Archibald in Concert (Avl to Aug 26/2022)
- Bluebeard’s Castle (Avl to Sept 26/2022)
Koerner Hall / Royal Conservatory of Music
Koerner Hall has announced their 2022/23 season. The concert list will be generally visible on April 14.
There are many concerts/recitals in their library including:
- Joseph Johnson, TSO Principal Cello: Beethoven Sonatas 1-5 & Variations on themes by Handel and Mozart
- Royal Conservatory Orchestra: Mahler, Symphony No. 5 (From Nov. 2015)
- Rebanks Family Fellowship Concerts
- ARC Ensemble
- Glenn Gould School Fall Opera: Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and William Bolcom’s Lucrezia
- Royal Conservatory Orchestra (many concerts)
- Barbara Hannigan and Reinbert de Leeuw, November 10, 2017 Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Alexander Zemlinsky, Alma Mahler and Hugo Wolf
- Stewart Goodyear Recital, December 4, 2016 Bach / Beethoven / Goodyear / Chopin / Tchaikovsky
- The Glenn Gould School Vocal Showcase (2022)
- Royal Conservatory Orchestra, Tania Miller Conductor: Copland Appalachian Spring, Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 (Jean-Luc Therrien), Dvorak Symphony No. 7
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)
Opera Atelier
TBA
Russell Braun & Carolyn Maule
- Rossini Barber of Seville performed (almost) complete in just under six minutes!
- Eri tu
- Nachtstuck
- Whither Must I Wander
- and many more on You Tube
Soulpepper Theatre
Soulpepper has announced their 2022 season.
Stratford Festival
The festival has a $10/month subscription ($11.30 with tax) available for access to much content both from their library and new productions on demand. To access this you have to create a Stratford online account.
They have posted a tour of the new Tom Patterson Theatre.
Meet the Festival sessions are all available online free.
Tafelmusik’s 2021/22 season is entirely digital with an option to buy tickets for in-person attendance.
Tapestry Opera
- Our Song D’Hiver with Mireille Asselin and Frédéric Lacroix
Toronto Consort / Early Music TV
The Toronto Consort presents its season and other content through a new site dedicated to Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque music. Subscriptions and single concert purchases available.
Available now:
- All in a Garden Green: A musical stroll through the verdant gardens of Elizabethan England
- A Medieval Christmas: A serene and contemplative exploration of enchanting medieval chants, polyphony and carols.
- Of Tricksters and Trolls: The musical story-telling of the medieval fables of Valhalla, with Peter Tiefenbach.
- Fellowship of Creatures: Celebrating the creatures of the earth, sea and sky with this all-new filmed concert experience. Featuring storytelling, traditional songs, and vocal and instrumental works by Josquin, Gibbons, Ravenscroft and Palestrina.
- The Christmas Story: The nativity journey to Bethlehem. Using William Tyndale’s Gospel translations, David Klausner, Consort founding member, joins us on stage once again as narrator, featuring masterpieces of sacred polyphony, festive dances, and carols that adorn the readings.
The 2021/22 season will be delivered online.
Toronto Summer Music
Some 2020 and 2021 concerts remain available online.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The TSO has announced its 2022/23 season.
Trio Arkel
Trio Arkel has made its program La Bonne Chanson available for free.
- Russell Braun, Carolyn Maule, Rémi Pelletier and Erika Raum as well as Trio Arkel’s Marie Berard and Winona Zelenka in a program of Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich and Fauré.
They have a forthcoming concert:
- Monday June 6th at 8 p.m. LÉGENDE, featuring harpist Heidi Bearcroft in a programmatic piece based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Ravel’s string quartet ($40). (Streamed concert available from June 12-26, $20.)
University of Toronto Faculty of Music
- Vocal Master Class with Adrianne Piaczonka
- Vocal Master Classes with Joyce DiDonato:
- Winners’ Recital of the Norcop and Koldofsky prizes:
- Alex Hetherington, mezzo-soprano and Dakota Scott-Digout, piano
- Vocal Master Classes with Susan Graham
USA Artists/Companies/Venues
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
The festival has completed for 2021.
Across the Pond
Concertgebouw Orchestra
There is a large library of free concerts available from the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam including a performance on June 19 conducted by the TSO’s incoming 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.
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
The GSO has a page with both their upcoming concerts and links to many previously archived ones.
Archived:
- Ravel: Bolero for 4 celli and snare drum (Avl to June 1/22)
- Handel/Halvorsen: Passacaglia for violin and cello (Avl to May 18/22)
- Sollima: Lamentatio for solo cello (Avl to May 18/22)
- Piazzolla’s 100th anniversary: Fuga y misterio (Avl to May 11/22)
- Piazzolla’s 100th anniversary: Oblivion (Avl to May 11/22)
- Schumann: Symphony No. 1 (Avl to Mar 14/22)
- Barber: Adagio for Strings
- Copland: Quiet City
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade
- Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
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
London Philharmonic Orchestra
A series of concerts will be available free on Marquee TV for 48 hours after initial posting. You must create a free account on Marquee TV to watch.
- June 4/22
- Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem
- Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 5
- Edward Gardner – conductor
London Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
- Copland: Appalachian Spring
- Falla: El amor brujo
- Simon Halsey, conductor
- Britten Russian Funeral
- Britten Hymn to the Virgin
- Poulenc Suite française
- Stravinsky Mass
National Theatre
The National Theatre in London, UK, has announced 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), as well as Ian McKellen On Stage.
Wiener Staatsoper
To view screenings from the Staatsoper, you must create an account, but then they are free. Normally they are available only for a day or so. 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!
Time Limited Streams
- Ben Goldscheider horn; Richard Uttley piano (Avl to May 21/22)
- Bozza, Dukas, Glazunov and more
- Solomon’s Knot (Avl to June 4/22)
- Bach Brothers
- Simon Trpčeski piano; Gjorgi Dimchevski violin; Sorin Spasinovici viola; Alexander Somov cello; Hidan Mamudov clarinet; Vlatko Nushev percussion (Avl to June 5/22)
- Brahms, Guillaume Connesson and Pande Shahov
- Rowan Hellier mezzo-soprano; Sholto Kynoch piano (Avl to June 6/22)
- Elaine Mitchener vocalist; Sarah Saviet violin; Mira Benjamin violin; Bridget Carey viola; Tamaki Sugimoto cello; Heather Roche clarinet; Siwan Rhys piano (Avl to June 6/22)
- Julian Bliss Septet (Avl to June 6/22)
- Celebrating Gershwin
- Gabriela Montero piano (Avl to June 7)
- Chopin, Gabriela Montero and Stravinsky
- Gary Hoffman, cello (Avl to June 11/22)
- Louise Alder soprano; Joseph Middleton piano (Avl to June 19/22)
- A Mahler, Beach, Boulanger, C Schumann and Libby Larsen
- Alexander Gadjiev piano (Avl to July 3/22)
- Prokofiev and R Schumann
- Leila Josefowicz violin (Avl to July 23)
- Bach and Matthias Pintscher
- Remembering Kitchener Camp
- A memorial concert for Yom HaShoah
- Haas, Haydn & Ravel
- A memorial concert for Yom HaShoah
Plus many more in their library.