Lisa Hirsch

In one of his last appearances with the orchestra, Music Director Joseph Young leads a program of works inspired by the season.

In a performance at UC Berkeley, the chamber chorus takes on the challenges of Gérard Grisey’s Les Chants de l’Amour.

Opera Parallèle’s The Pigeon Keeper is a production for everyone, with a strong moral and moving performances.

A solid cast makes this a winning production of Mozart’s masterpiece.

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the orchestra shake up The Rite of Spring, plus Daniil Trifonov delivers a dazzling romp through Prokofiev.

Strong singing and direction give Béla Bartók’s one-act chiller plenty of thrills in this production from OSJ’s Shawna Lucey.

Davidsen, one of the Metropolitan Opera’s reigning divas, shows complete mastery in a varied recital at Cal Performances.

There’s a theatrical bent to the two big works on the lineup: Carla Kihlstedt’s 26 Little Deaths and Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars.

Two of the Bay Area’s premier small ensembles team up for a program that dwells on the netherworld between waking and dreams.

The orchestra and soloist Víkingur Ólafsson give the world premiere of After the Fall, Adams’s third piano concerto.