Michael Zwiebach is the senior editor/content manager for SFCV. He assigns all articles and content, manages the writing staff, and does editing. A member of SFCV from the beginning, Michael holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California, Berkeley.
By good luck, SFCV was present at the rehearsal of a pivotal scene in Act 1 of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Here's sharing that fly-on-the-wall experience.
New music has never been a problem for Nathan Gunn. In this interview, he talks about the challenge of playing Jesus in Mark Adamo’s opera The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
Mark Adamo has been extraordinarily successful at writing operas. Adamo takes time with lyrical moments, and he is a superb librettist. The reasons for this became clear as he talked to SFCV about his most recent operatic creation.
From Hans Christian Andersen to the Grimm brothers, 19th-century Europeans were vastly interested in fairytales. For this playlist we turn to pieces that are directly inspired by folk tales.
The latest concert of the young, well-received duo ZOFO features music from several space-age composers and, of course, excursions to Gustav Holst’s The Planets.
