Features

The 100th-anniversary season of the S.F. Symphony features a star-studded lineup. But it’s not the only orchestra with exciting performers and composers. Here are highlights from the birthday orchestra, as well as other concerts to put on the calendar.

The guitar once again shows its virtuosity in the Bay Area, a haven of great players.

If you’re crazy about opera and great singing, there’s a wide field to play this fall. Here’s a list of the best possibilities.

More epic love story than 9/11 drama, Heart of a Soldier, which premieres at San Francisco Opera in Sept., will present the big themes of classic operas in a modern context.

Beyond bland generalities and faked goodwill, the 10 candidates for mayor of San Francisco have ideas about funding the arts and using them to better the city and its communities.

Tune up for Youth Ensemble Auditions
Free Master Class by Baritone Thomas Hampson
Brazil in Golden Gate Park

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra plays unforgettable concerts on its Chicago/East Coast tour, which brought the musicians even closer together as artists.

It will never be “same old, same old,” if you organize your concert calendar around these new and unusual concerts.

Less popular than Mozart's comic operas, his Idomeneo is still a dramatic, musically bold opera with a lot to say. It's also the biggest production Opera San José has yet undertaken.