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 ...

Mary, Queen of Scots is back. Thea Musgrave’s 1977 opera received its U.S. premiere at Virginia Opera in March 1978 and its West Coast premiere almost exactly a year later at Spring Opera Theater, an ...

N.B.: An agreement to end the strike was announced on Sept. 17. SF Opera and the American Federation of Musicians Local 6, the union representing the SF Opera Orchestra musicians, did not reach an ...

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 ...

Thu, December 31, 2026 - 4:00pm City: ...

Subject to a vote by the full orchestra, negotiators for the musicians and the Opera management reached a settlement in the five-day-old strike.

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Recitative is used in vocal works, particularly opera and oratorio, usually for a solo voice, in relatively free rhythm. In this respect recitative is distinct from the formal aria. Recitative might ...

As much a superstar in his time as Michael Jackson was in ours, he revolutionized the art of piano playing. As a composer he remains most famous for his tuneful and brilliant Hungarian Rhapsodies. The ...

The Choral performance group for San Francisco State, The Chamber Singers perform wide variety of a cappella works. Receive the latest news delivered straight to your inbox with a digest of all the ...