Reviews

A Music in the Vineyards concert at Silverado Vineyards showcases the viola to great effect.

Hydrogen Jukebox, the dizzying psychological opera that Allen Ginsberg created with Philip Glass is courageously performed by Berkeley's West Edge Opera.

Piano duos cruise the Baltic to provide intriguing, even enthralling works at the biannual Salkind Festival.

The West Edge Opera’s creative team managed to create a functional, and most of all intimate performance space for its three operas this season, notably in Jake Heggie’s The End of the Affair.

Gilles Vonsattel takes listeners through revolutions, oppression, and fantasy in his innovative Music@Menlo recital.

Composers featured at the Cabrillo festival seemed to know what joy was, and splendidly communicated it to a riotously appreciative audience.

The impressive National Youth Orchestra rings out with joy and conviction in Weill Hall.

The Merola Opera program's staging of Don Giovanni, directed by James Darrah, offers an incredibly talented cast in an erotically charged, very physical environment.

Yura Lee treats her Music@Menlo audience to a range of Eastern-European works for her masterful violin.

The adventurous Santa Fe Opera has a hit on its hands with a new opera about the major figure in the Chinese Revolution.