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The Tudors
October 19 & 20, 2012
To launch our 40th Anniversary Season, we have seized the perfect opportunity to program Thomas Tallis’ rarely-heard, magnificent 40-part motet Spem in alium. Members of Toronto’s Tallis Choir join the Consort for this grand performance. Together with masterpieces from the English Renaissance (including music that the Consort recorded for the TV series “The Tudors”), this is an event not to be missed! |
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“The Toronto Consort is a wonderful ensemble, offering extremely imaginative programs of much too rarely heard, exquisite music.”
JEANNE LAMON
Music Director, Tafelmusik
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Praetorius Mass
for Christmas Morning
December 14, 15 & 16, 2012
This sonorous and spectacular concert recreates the music which might have been heard at a Christmas Morning Lutheran Mass under Michael Praetorius. Like the Consort’s Praetorius Christmas Vespers which has enjoyed such success, this new program features early brass, strings, lutes, keyboards and voices ranged around the balconies at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, with a chance for the audience to contribute their voices as well! |
“As led by its Artistic Director, David Fallis, the Toronto Consort lavishes luminous clarity, lightness and vitality on the music.”
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE
The Loves of
Apollo and Daphne
by Francesco Cavalli
February 15 & 16, 2013
Francesco Cavalli is the brilliant composer whose operatic masterpieces were the 17th-century equivalents of Rossini and Verdi: wildly popular, by turns heart-wrenching and hilarious. The Toronto Consort proudly presents the Canadian premiere of this ironic and erotic tale of Apollo’s unrequited love for the nymph Daphne, with some secondary tales of infidelity and misadventure. Sung in Italian, this opera in concert features Charles Daniels as Apollo, Katherine Hill as Daphne, Laura Pudwell as Venus and Michele DeBoer as Aurora.
The appearance of Charles Daniels is generously supported by Vivian Pilar. |
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“Congratulations on a legacy of glorious music that touches our hearts and challenges our imaginations!”
MARSHALL PYNKOSKI and JEANNETTE LAJEUNESSE ZINGG
Co-Artistic Directors, Opera Atelier
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Emma Kirkby
sings Dowland and Purcell
April 5 & 6, 2013
We are thrilled to present one of the greatest early music singers of all time, Dame Emma Kirkby, with renowned lutenist Jakob Lindberg, in a concert entitled “Orpheus in England”. 2013 marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of John Dowland, and what more glorious way to begin the year than an evening of Emma Kirkby singing music by Dowland and Henry Purcell, two of the most sublime English songwriters ever!
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“For two decades, Emma Kirkby’s clear, agile voice has epitomized the pure sound of early music. She remains one of the treasures of the music world.”
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
A Woman’s Life
May 24, 25 & 26, 2013
From Alison Mackay, former member of the Toronto Consort and creator of The Galileo Project and House of Dreams, comes another stunning evening of music, words and projected imagery, exploring the lives and talents of women composers and singers from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and early Baroque. Featuring music by Hildegard of Bingen, Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini, the evening will also welcome two wonderful actors to the stage, Maggie Huculak and Karen Woolridge.
Generously supported by
Al & Jane Forest.
A Special Opportunity to
Honour a Remarkable Woman in your Life and support A Woman's Life |
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“I’m excited about creating a multi-media evening centred on the lives and music of women composers and musicians from ages past for the Consort’s 40th season!”
ALISON MACKAY
Principal Double Bass, Tafelmusik
Again This Year!
SUNDAY SAMPLER
December 16, 2012 and May 26, 2013
2 concerts at 3:30 pm
Our Sampler or “introductory” series is perfect for people who want to try out the Toronto Consort, or for those members of the audience who prefer an afternoon concert. This series consists of Praetorius Mass for Christmas Morning on Sunday, December 16, 2012 and A Woman’s Life on Sunday, May 26, 2013. These Sunday afternoons are becoming our most popular concerts and tickets sell quickly.
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All concerts performed at Trinity-St.
Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor Street West (just west of Spadina). Friday and Saturday concerts begin at 8 pm. Sunday concerts begin at 3:30 pm.
Artists and programs are subject to change.
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"This dear band - so expert, so rhythmically alive, so humourous, at times so touching - has such an infectious good time doing what it does well, I just sit and smile. "
— The Globe and Mail
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427 Bloor Street West
Toronto ON
M5S 1X7
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