Why eat at your desk when you can munch on lunch while watching some great performers? The Canadian Opera Company‘s free Richard Bradshaw Concert Series includes everything from operatic ensembles to chamber music and dance performances. Highlights include Emanuel Ax (also see the master classes item next column), Pavel Kolesnikov and Orion Weiss playing opera transcriptions for piano (February 5), and soprano Jane Archibald and pianist Liz Upchurch performing a pre-Valentine’s selection of songs of love and longing (February 10).
Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen West, 416-363-8231, coc.ca.