San Francisco

Catherine Cook, Philip Skinner, and Dale Travis were given the SF Opera Medal for their more than three decades of inspired performances.

The saxophonist and longtime SFSU faculty member has carved an idiosyncratic path and brought up a new generation of players his own way.

Composer Nico Muhly and librettist Alice Goodman explore the Passion on harp.

Now studying conducting at university in Vienna, the young composer has revised her first opera and written another.

Now in his 80s, the composer has made a late-career breakthrough with these two works for orchestra.

The site-specific dance work is perfectly in tune with John Luther Adams’s new score, Waves and Particles.

An outstanding production and epic musical score highlight a triumphant West Coast premiere.

Vocalist Luciana Souza and arranger Vince Mendoza open the annual festival with their deep-dive Storytellers project.

Peter Knell and Stephanie Fleischmann’s brooding new opera portrays the Soviet side of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Bay Area company brings another forgotten opera to the stage, and this one packs a dramatic punch.