San Francisco

SFCV’s writers report on topics relevant to the San Francisco area.

Lou Fancher - April 11, 2023

Photographer Richard Misrach talks about how his collaboration with King and LINES Ballet came about.

Richard S. Ginell - April 11, 2023

It’s a modern-day Rhapsody in Blue, the perfect recording project for the superstar pianist and Abrams’s Louisville Orchestra.

Victoria Looseleaf - April 11, 2023

The company’s Digital Shorts, still available for viewing, brought together major-name creatives to invent 10-minute operatic films.

Lou Fancher - April 3, 2023

The Bay Area ensemble for disabled, nondisabled, and neurodivergent dancers has a list of achievements in the past year to celebrate.

Jason Victor Serinus - April 2, 2023

As wonderfully as Giacomo Puccini’s opera has been served in the studio, this Warner Classics release is up there with the best.

Iris Kwok - March 28, 2023

The veteran broadcaster chats with SFCV about his new podcast project, which explores the Black experience in classical music.

Richard S. Ginell - March 28, 2023

The newly minted Grammy Award winner delivers a remarkably polished set at The Soraya.

Victoria Looseleaf - March 28, 2023

With James Conlon conducting a sensitive account of the score, and a fine cast to boot, there is no mystery to the success of this production.

Emily Wilson - March 28, 2023

The Beyond Bollywood exhibition at the Asian Art Museum will stir emotions as well as tell stories.

Lisa Hirsch - March 27, 2023

Allen Shearer and Claudia Stevens’s operatic take on The Tempest succeeds most in musical moments that depart entirely from the original.