Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program of dark favorites by Modest Mussorgsky, Franz Liszt, and Hector Berlioz.
The violinist was on hand for Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto in a concert also featuring Brian Raphael Nabors’s Upon Daybreak.
In SF Opera’s production of Poulenc’s masterpiece, spiritual concerns are powerfully dramatized.
The classic film turns 50 this year, and a screening with live orchestra comes to Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Oct. 29.
A serious star cast joins PBO for this lesser-known Handel oratorio about a Christian woman and a Roman solider.