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Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

  • Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
  • 145 Queen St. W. View on map »
  • 416-363-8231
The opera house’s Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents a series of noon- and happy-hour events, showcasing both young and established artists. Featured classical performances include the Talisker Players, along with tenor Colin Ainsworth and baritone Jesse Clark, in performances of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ivor Gurney and Juliet Hess, Nov. 11; Australian pianist Benjamin Chapman, playing Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata no. 5 in C Major and Johannes Brahms’ Three Intermezzos, op. 117, Nov. 13; Nicolò Eugelmi, principal viola of the COC Orchestra, and pianist Michael McMahon in Schumann’s Märchenbilder, op. 113, German modernist Paul Hindemith’s Sonata for Viola and Piano, op. 11, no. 4, and Englishman Arthur Benjamin’s Caribbean Set, Nov. 25; and a group of singers from the Opera Division of U of T’s faculty of music, along with pianist Sandra Horst, in excerpts from 18th-century Valencian composer Vicente Martín y Soler’s enchanting romantic comedy, Una cosa rara, ossia bellezza ed onestà (A Rare Thing, or Beauty and Honesty), Nov. 27.—Rick MacMillan
When:
Nov. 11/08 - Nov. 27/08

    Free Event

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