Starting to settle into its beautiful new hall, with its superb acoustics, the Santa Rosa Symphony launches its current season with high hopes and fine playing.
In their concert British tenor Mark Padmore and American pianist Jonathan Biss fused words and music in a supreme partnership that conveyed emotions with transcendent, eye-opening profundity.
Launching its season with terrific dancers and successful explorations of new repertory, Smuin Ballet appears poised to climb to a higher level in the regional ballet firmament.
Dipping into later-than-real-Baroque territory, Philharmonia Baroque clearly loves to perform Brahms Serenades, which it plays as if living in the style of his era.
Philharmonia Baroque essays Henry Purcell’s rarely performed Dioclesian, a semi-opera chockful of stories of love, lust, and politics, all dressed in splendid music.
