Toronto 
Events Description
Orchestra Toronto opens its 2025/26 season with a program tracing a dramatic arc from struggle to transcendence. Christine Donkin’s Three Autumn Scenes sets the stage with vivid, evocative imagery. Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, written for his only opera Fidelio, captures the emotional tension and ultimate triumph of freedom over oppression. Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, performed by acclaimed Canadian violinist (and Orchestra Toronto’s concertmaster) Corey Gemmell, offers a striking contrast—dreamlike, lyrical, and unexpectedly delicate in its early 20th-century modernism. Strauss’s Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) concludes the program, a sweeping tone poem that follows an artist’s final journey from mortality to metaphysical release.
Tickets start at $15, and subscriptions for the full 2025/26 season are still available!
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $15 – $55
Children: $15
Youth ages 16-29: $25
Senior: $39
Adult: $55
How to get tickets?
At the door: At the Box Office
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Saturday October 18, 2025 at 7:30PM
Pre-Concert chat at 6:45PM
2 hours, including 15 minute intermission
Venue & Address
George Weston Recital Hall, Meridian Arts Centre, 5040 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario M2N 6R8
Wheelchair accessible
Street Parking
Paid Parking
Accessible by Public Transport
