Hello curiousbee,
Thanks for reaching out to us!
The simplest approach to get close to what you’re looking for would be to select the following setting within the General tab of the plugin settings. This will allow only the next upcoming instance of the recurrence to show within the list view.
To get exactly what you’re looking for, you could possibly follow our Themer’s Guide to create a custom loop of the list view within your theme. Around the single events, you could add a conditional that checks for the current date against the first instance of tribe_get_recurrence_start_dates; to show only the first instance of a recurrence.
Hopefully this will help to get you pointed in the right direction. Let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks!