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 ...

Auditions are OPEN NOW for Fall 2026 at the National Children’s Chorus San Francisco Chapter! The GRAMMY® Award-winning National Children’s Chorus San Francisco Chapter provides children ages 5 to 18 ...

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 ...

This year’s premiere, on July 7, was the Italian composer Francesco Filidei’s Accabadora , based on the late Michela Murgia’s prize-winning novel of the same name. Set in Sardinia at a time when ...

SF Classical Voice readers had a lot to think about in answering our 2025-2026 survey. Fiscal uncertainty or not, the Los Angeles calendar was filled with concerts from the interesting to the ...

From its first conductor, Henry Hadley, to Pierre Monteux, Seiji Ozawa, and Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony has been led by many exceptional music directors. “We’re approaching a ...

The death of soprano Erie Mills is being reported today by Livermore Valley Opera (LVO), where she was artistic director. “The internationally acclaimed coloratura soprano Erie Mills passed away on ...

A year after her death at age 89, Gabrielle Stocker's Last Will was released this week, stunning legions of her Santa Cruz musician friends with extravagant bequests. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, ...

Her music is unapologetically tonal, but the reason for that is simple. Deutscher has said she writes the music she wants to hear. The composer relates that when she was very small, her parents made a ...

It’s a strange tale for those of us who grew up in the era of high modernism, but contemporary opera has become popular with audiences. Not the dense, uncompromising works, mind you: Harrison ...