San Francisco Symphony has announced the creation of a new multiseason festival under the direction of Austrian conductor ...

San Francisco Opera Orchestra \. Five days after the San Francisco Opera Orchestra struck the season-opening performance of ...

Long Beach Opera has always been an experimental company. Comfortable with site-specific production and out-there material, they scored a hit with the premiere of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer ...

SF Opera and the American Federation of Musicians Local 6, the union representing the SF Opera Orchestra musicians, did not reach an agreement in time for last night’s Sept. 12 opening performance of ...

It’s fair to say that Bruce Koball, music director at the Hillside Club in Berkeley, has found his groove. A longtime Bay Area sound engineer, he curates the live music series presented in the 1924 ...

She loves Aretha Franklin, Metallica, and Aerosmith. But it was Luciano Pavarotti who helped her choose opera over a career in pop music. She’s soprano Eleonora Buratto, and she’ll be making her San ...

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The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance provides multidisciplinary training in classical and modern dance for advanced dancers ages 17-23 during the academic year and as young as 14 during the summer ...

Stage and screen star of Fame, Sweet Charity and Grey’s Anatomy, five-time Emmy winner Debbie Allen has also transformed the lives of California’s most talented disenfranchised youth through her dance ...

George Frideric Handel’s Messiah was an instant classic soon after its 1742 premiere and has been a holiday tradition around the world ever since. Through a dramatic series of arias, recitatives, and ...

"Papa" of opera. His music was an important bridge from Renaissance to Baroque aesthetics. Paolo Fabbri, Monteverdi, trans. by Tim Carter. (Cambridge, 1994.) The standard biography. Out of print, but ...