"What joy!" were the first words the chorus sang when the curtain…
Beethoven is everywhere, all the time, but the San Francisco Symphony festival…
Dance, opera, symphonic, choral and jazz music are blooming in a season…
Opera director Francesca Zambello has seen the five-hour-long "Les Troyens" (“The Trojans”)…
British composer Tarik O'Regan is excited and thrilled about his operatic version…
John Adams, America’s most prominent composer since Aaron Copland, was called upon…
Illustrious English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner has been presenting the music…
A musical revolution to the tune of 150 million students is happening…
Creators of the first opera ever based on George Eliot’s 1874 classic…
Although he occupied one of the most prestigious positions in the classical…
San Francisco Symphony’s 104th season announced today promises more than 200 concerts…
For San Francisco’s Jake Heggie, as it was for French sculptor Camille…
Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally, creators of the opera “Dead…
Osmin, the bad guy in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio," is a…
Twentieth-century fiction continues to provide fertile source material for contemporary opera: “Where…
From the start, violinist Renaud Capuçon and pianist Khatia Buniatishvili have had…
Rarely does an encounter with the past forever change a musician’s relationship…
