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Enjoy a concert, opera, or a ballet that touches your soul, Ontario has your tickets to performances year-round.
Performing Arts
Ottawa’s National Arts Centre and MERIDIAN HALL in Toronto both present great series of music, dance and shows. Representing professional dance and opera companies in the city, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) will allow you to know what’s playing on Toronto’s stages; download their mobile app for on-the-go performing arts tickets, reviews and searches, and free telephone service is also available for more guidance.
Theatre
You’ll love the summer theatre in Ontario’s scenic rural spaces. Enjoy the Canadian stories in a historic barn (谷仓) at the 4th Line Theatre near Peterborough. The Brighton Barn Theatre is another unique theatre set in a farm field. Once a working cattle barn, the Globus Theatre at the LAB now is well-known for offering a professional summer season for theatre and a mix of dramas and comedy nights at other times throughout the year. It creates partnerships with theatre companies in various countries, and shows diverse theatre for communities.
Orchestral Music (管弦乐)
Enjoy the wide-ranging programs of Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Hamilton’s music scene is booming with the Hamilton Orchestra offering up another season of great concerts, as is the Ontario Philharmonic in Oshawa, with a solid season of excellent traditional music, wonderful with great special events.
Ballet
Toronto is a centre for different Canadian dance from the National Ballet of Canada to the Toronto Dance Theatre. The Ballet Series at the National Arts Centre (NAC) presents three ballet productions in Southam Hall, each featuring the NAC Orchestra.
21. What might the TAPA function as?
A. An application. B. A guidebook.
C. An art centre. D. A service organization.
22. What does the author say about the Globus Theatre?
A. It lies in a scenic farm filed in Ontario.
B. It provides performances from around the world.
C. It once was well-known as a working cattle barn.
D. It shows dramas and comedies throughout the year.
23. Where will those fond of classical works prefer to go?
A. Ottawa’s National Arts Centre.
B. The Brighton Barn Theatre.
C. The Ontario Philharmonic.
D. The Toronto Dance Theatre.
