The “Classical Style” concert focuses on chamber masterworks from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Donald Pippin’s rhymed libretto in English brings the opera’s charming lyrics to the fore.
Anthony Reed and John Parr tread the delicate line between power and intimacy.
Confident performances abounded in the Merola Program’s Schwabacher Summer Concert.
The S.F. Symphony, with soloists Sasha Cooke, Nicholas Phan, and Luca Pisaroni, navigated the challenging work in the orchestra’s season finale.
The great pianist graced a Santa Cruz Symphony concert for the second time this year and the results were just as magical as the first.
Sometimes concert extras don’t add that much.
George Lewis’s Afterword, an opera has an original premise, and some beautiful music, but there’s one big fly in the ointment.
Meanwhile, conductor Vasily Petrenko made a meal of Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony, leading the San Francisco Symphony’s weekend program.
A festive cavalcade of opera talent pitches in to fete the venerable training program.
