Today in Toronto: Carmina Burana, Melissa Stylianou Quartet and more

Carmina Burana Carl Orff’s melodically pungent and rhythmically fierce setting of medieval Latin poems never fails to get audience liftoff. Soloists Leslie Ann Bradley, John Mac Master and Ted Baerg join the Arcady singers under the direction of Boris Brott. Find out more »

Melissa Stylianou Quartet She’s now based in New York, but the Canadian-born vocalist and composer Stylianou still makes occasional pilgrimages back home, her smooth, assured lyricism guaranteeing an ardent local fan base. James Reynolds, another NYC-based Torontonian (and Stylianou’s husband) tickles the ivories, while bass and drums round out the quartet. Find out more »

White Biting Dog Lighter than many of Judith Thompson’s other plays, 1984’s White Biting Dog follows Cape, a suicidal young man whose attempt to jump from the Bloor Street Viaduct is serendipitously interrupted by the titular pup. Find out more »