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Two Novels by BARBARA PYM
Sabbath's Theater by PHILIP ROTH
July 18/13
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May 10/13
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Feb 25/13
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A Toast to 2012
Dec 19/12
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Aug 26/12
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Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2012
July 14/12
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MIMC
May 27/12
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La Traviata: Met's Live HD Version
Apr 21/12
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The Artist Project 2012
Academy Awards Show 2012
Feb 26/12
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June 27/10
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Notables of '09
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How Fiction Works
Nov 24/09
Sex for Saints
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Housekeeping
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Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2009
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Zen Wrapped In Karma Dipped In Chocolate
June 28/09
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Myriad Mysteries 2009
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CBC Radio -- "The New Two"
April 14/09
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Toronto Art Expo '09
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The Jesus Sayings
Feb 8/09
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Stand-outs of 2008
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Toronto Art Expo 2007
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Dec 27/06
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Ring Psycho (Wagner on CBC Radio)
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Me In Manhattan
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MOVIES
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Listed here under the one heading are: Musical Events in Live Performance, on Radio, TV, Movies and DVDs

Originally, items were posted according to genre and then archived accordingly.  That's why the older items are indexed by genre and the rest by date.

To find an item, scroll down to see what page it's on, then click on the appropriate page in the navigation bar to the left of the screen.

 Agrippina: Met HD Live Transmission, Feb 29/20 (March 12/20) 

Aida: Met Opera Broadcast (Jan 28/05)

Aida: Met Radio Broadcast, Dec 15/12 (Dec 16/12)

The Aldeburgh Connection, "The Singer and the Song" CBC Radio Two (Feb 2/07)

Backstage with Ben Heppner (Aug 8/14)

Beethoven's First Piano Concerto, "Sound Advice", CBC Radio Two (August 29/07)

Ben Heppner and Molly Johnson, CBC Radio Two (Dec 8/07)

Bryn Terfel: Sunday Afternoon in Concert, CBC Radio Two (June 4/08)

Canada-Asia Concert: CBC TV (Jan 19/05)

C'est mon plaisir (March 11/11)

Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Met Opera Broadcast, (Feb 2/07)

Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Met HD Live Transmission Apr 25/15 (Apr 30/15)

Charles Richard-Hamelin Concert, Feb 3,2019 (Feb 23/19)

Corelli, Franco, on "Espace Musique" (

Cosi Fan Tutte -- Canadian Opera Company, Feb 21/19 (Feb 23/19)

Cosi Fan Tutte -- Met HD Live Transmission on March 31/18 (Apr 23/18)

Cosi Fan Tutte -- Met HD Live Transmission on April 26/14 (Apr 30/14)

Der Rosenkavalier, Met HD Live Broadcast, May 13/17 (June 16/17)

Dialogues des Carmélites, Met HD Live Broadcast May 11/19 (May 26/19) 

Diana Krall, on "After Hours" (Sept 22/06)

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (May 4/08)

Die Fledermaus, Canadian Opera Company (Nov 6/12)

Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (Dec 19/14)
 

Doctor Atomic, Met Opera HD Live Transmission (Oct 27/08)

Don Carlo, Met Opera HD Live Transmission (Dec 21/10)

Don Giovanni: Opera Atelier (Dec 5/04)

Don Giovanni: Salzburg Festival on CBC Radio Two (Oct 14/06)

Don Giovanni: Royal Opera HD Presentation (Oct 27/08)

Don Giovanni: University of Toronto (March 24/11)

Don Giovanni - Met Opera HD Live Broadcast Oct 29/11 (Nov 7/11)

Don Giovanni - Met Opera Radio Broadcast Mar 10/12 (Mar 22/12)

Don Giovanni - Canadian Opera, February 2015 (Feb 20/15)

(The) Enchanted Island (Met Opera HD Broadcast) (Jan 23/12)

Eugene Onegin (Met Opera HD Broadcast to Theatres) (Feb 16/07)

Falstaff (Met Live HD Broadcast) (Feb 11/14)

Fidelio (Met Opera, DVD) (Jan 11/06)

Figaro Live at the Met (May 2/06)

From the House of the Dead (Opera) (Feb 26/08)

Gavin Bryars Concert, On Stage, CBC Radio Two (Aug 8/07)

Gerald Finley on CBC Radio Two (April 14/07)

Gigli, Beniamino, On "Espace Musique" (Sept 6/06)

Giulio Cesare (May 10/13)

Glorious Sounds of the Season, Amadeus Choir (Dec 20/11)

(The) Goldberg Variations -- CD played by David Jalbert (Sept 28/12)

Gondoliers, The (April 27/05)

Idomeneo, Met HD Live Broadcast, March 25/17 (June 16/17)

Idomeneo (Opera), CBC Radio Two (June 4/08)

Il Trovatore: Met HD Live Production, October 3, 2015 (Oct 29/15)

Iphigénie En Tauride, Met Opera HD Transmission of Feb 25/11 (March 11/11) 

In Performance: CBC Radio Two, Nov 2/05 (Nov 4/05)

Jeunesses Musicales International Vocal Finals (May 18/05)

Joan Sutherland -- Taking Leave of a Legend (Oct 22/10)

Khovanshschina (Opera) Met Radio Broadcast Mar 17/12 (Mar 22/12)

Kiwanis Music Festival (Feb 26/08)

Kyle Merrithew: Baritone (DVD) (Feb 22/10)

La Bohème: Met's HD Live Broadcast, April 5/08 (March 26/08)

La Clemenza di Tito; Met HD Live Transmission, Dec 1/12 (Dec 4/12)

La Damnation de Faust, HD Live Transmission, Nov 22/08 (Nov 16/08)

La Donna del Lago, Met's HD Live Transmission, March 14/15 (March 23/15)\

La Fille du Régiment, Met's HD Live Transmission, Apr 6/19 (Apr 22/19)

La Fille du Régiment, CBC Radio Two (Aug 8/07)

La Fille du Régiment, Met Opera HD Live Broadcast, April 26/08 (April 16/08)

La Finta Giardiniera, U of T Opera School (Apr 22/19)

La Sonnambula, Met Opera HD Live Broadcast, March 21/09 (March 24/09)

La Traviata, Metropolitan Opera, CBC Radio Two, (Feb 16/06)

La Traviata, Lyric Opera of Chicago, CBC Radio Two (June 4/08)

La Traviata, Met Opera Radio Broadcast (April 17/10)

La Traviata, Met Opera Radio Broadcast of Jan 15/11 (Jan 17/11)

La Traviata, Met Opera HD Live, April 14/12 -- on a page of its own, listed in the navigation bar between Apr 21/12 and May 4/12

La Traviata, Met Opera Live in HD Broadcasst, Dec 15, 2018 (Dec 20/18)

Le Comte Ory, Met Radio Broadcast, Feb 2/13 (Feb 7/13)

Le Comte Ory, Met HD Live Transmission of April 9, 2011 (April 11/11)

Leonard Gilbert, Piano (Feb 13/08)

Leonard Gilbert, Encore, Piano (Feb 26/08)

Leonard Gilbert Benefit Concert for Oxfam, Piano (May 14/11)

Les Grands Voix: Joseph Calleja and Patrizia Ciofi (Jan 24/07)

Les Pecheurs de Perles (Jan 27/16)

Les Troyens; Met HD Live Transmission, Jan 5/13 (Jan 12/13)

Lucia di Lammermoor, CBC Radio Two (Sept 6/06)

Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera, Feb 17, 1959 (Oct 14/06)

Lucia di Lammermoor, Met Opera, March 8/08 (Feb 26/08)

Lucia di Lammermoor, Met Opera HD Live Transmission on Feb 7/09 (Feb 8/09)

Lucia di Lammermoor, Met Opera Production from 1982 (May 25/20)

Luisa Miller -- Met Opera Live HD Transmission on Apr 14/18 (Apr 23/18)

Madama Butterfly -- Met Opera HD Live Transmission, Apr 2/16 (Apr 23/16)

Magic Flute, The (Kenneth Branagh's movie of the opera) March 24/09

Magic Flute, The, CBC Radio Two (Dec 12/05)

Magic Flute, The, Met Opera HD Live Broadcast to Theatres (Dec 27/06)

Manon Lescaut, Met Opera HD Live Broadcast (Feb 13/08)

Maria Stuarda (Jan 22/13)

Marriage of Figaro, The, Met Opera Radio Broadcast (April 12/06)

Marriage of Figaro, The, Met Opera Live (May 2/06)

Marriage of Figaro, The, from the Salzburg Festival, CBC Radio Two (Oct 14/06)

Marriage of Figaro, The, Royal Opera HD Broadcast (July 21/08)

Marriage of Figaro, The -- Opera Atelier, Toronto (April 17/10)

Marriage of Figaro, The -- Met Opera HD Live Broadcast Oct 18/14 (Oct 29/14)

Marriage of Figaro, The -- Canadian Opera, Feb 25/16 (Apr 23/16)

Marriage of Figaro, The -- Opera Atelier, October 31, 2017 (Nov 3/17)

Marriage of Figaro, The -- University of Toronto. Nov 21st and 24th, 2019 (Dec 6/19)

Marriage of Figaro, The -- Met Opera Radio Broadcast, Feb 22/20 (March 12/20)

Marriage of Figaro, The -- Met Opera Production of 1998 (May 25/20)

Met Opera Joe Volpe Gala (May 23/06)

Met Opera Mozart Retrospective, CBC Radio Two (Feb 1/06)

Met Opera 125th Anniversary Gala (September 26/08)

Met Opera Online Gala (Apr 30/20)

Mozart Birthday Celebrations, CBC Radio Two (Feb 1/06)

Mozart Countdown, CBC Radio Two (Jan 11/06)

Music Heals, Ricker Choi, April 2013 (Apr 18/13)

Music Heals, Ricker Choi (June 28/12)

(The) Mystical Bond (Apr 29/11)

Nathan Berg on CBC radio’s "In Performance" (Other Stuff page)

Nicholas King Piano Concert -- April 23/12 (May 4/12)

Nixon In China, Met Live in HD Transmission (Feb 23/11)

Opera House, The -- 2018 Documentary (May 25/20)

Opera On the Rocks (July 5/08)

Orfeo ed Euridice, Met Opera HD Live Broadcast to Theatres, Jan 24/09 (Jan 26/09)

Orfeo ed Euridice, Met Opera, Radio Broadcast "Saturday Afternoon at the Opera" (May 2/07)

Otello, Med HD Live Broadcast, October 17, 2015 (Oct 29/15)

The Passing of a Giant: A Reflection (Aug 29/07)

Pavarotti at Seventy, CBC Radio Two (Feb 16/06)

Prize Song from Die Meistersinger (Aug 21/19)

Ramona Luengen (Piano Concerto) Symphony Hall, CBC Radio Two, Aug 29/07

Renata Tebaldi, Radio Canada (May 2/06)

Rigoletto, Met HD Live Transmission, Feb 16/13 (Feb 25/13)

Rigoletto, Met Opera, CBC Radio Two (Dec 11/06)

Rigoletto, Met Opera, CBC Radio Two, Jan 22/11 performance (Feb 7/11)

Ring Psycho, Essay re "Ring Cycle" on "Ring Cycle" (page "Ring Psycho")

Roberto Devereux -- Met HD Repeat Broadcast, May 28/16 (June 2/16)

Roméo et Juliette, Met Opera HD Broadcast (Dec 8/07)

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band  (Oct 25/05)

Sondra Radvanovksy ("The Singer and the Song" CBC Radio Two) Aug 29/07

Susan Platts sings Frauenliebe und Leben, CBC Radio Two (June 9/06)

Simon Boccanegra (DVD) (Jan 5/05)

That Choir Remembers 2010 (Nov 11/10)

That Choir Remembers 2008 (Oct 27/08)

Toronto Summer Chamber Music Festival (June 27/06)

(The) Toronto Symphony Orchestra with Emanuel Ax and Yoko Nozaki  (June 6/09)

Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir and Mireille Asselin (Nov 28/06)

Tosca, Met Opera on CBC Radio, Jan 29/11 performance (Feb 7/11)

Tristan und Isolde (Opera) (March 26/08)

Un Ballo In Maschera (Opera) (July 20/07)

Un Ballo In Machera (Met HD Live Transmission, Dec 8/12) (Dec 16/12)

Van Cliburn: A Tribute (Mar 14/13)

Werther -- Met Live HD Transmission (March 21/14)

Wiener Blut (Operetta) (Jan 11/06)