Steven Winn

The potent singing combination of Carmen Giannattasio and Brian Jagde distinguish this production.

American Bach Soloists’ Academy Festival Orchestra and Academy Singers join forces in a festive Handel mashup.

The intrepid company masters the challenges of Debussy's opera of doomed love.

Merola Opera stages Stravinsky’s neoclassical masterwork, and succeeds in the end.

Mezzo-soprano Kinda Scharich joins pianist John Parr in the North American premiere of a new song-cycle.

The West Coast premiere of Philip Glass’s Third Piano Concerto dominates the program.

Bach’s orchestral suites, masterfully interpreted.

Brahms’s colossal Violin Concerto is bookended with bombastic works by Prokofiev and Andrew Norman.

Foot-stomping, exuberant, and unabashedly sentimental, Jordi Savall’s latest musical tour is still about sensitive, extraordinary performances.

The whole was less than the sum of its parts in this ambitious reading of Beethoven's Ninth.