Opera

Mezzo Susan Graham was inspiring in an afternoon of art songs about romantic love.

The small company comes up trumps with a compelling production of the modern-day masterpiece.

The Palo Alto-based company offers up a mostly pleasing, musically erratic Abduction from the Seraglio

Mark Lanz Weiser's opera, at Opera San Jose, misses the mark

Los Angeles Opera breathes new life into John Corigliano’s brilliant, if overlong, opera.

ABS did a terrific job with the most winning of Handel’s theater works, introducing a fine soprano in the process.

Tobias Picker's opera is revived by the adventurous, if shoestring-budgeted, Los Angeles company.

The young singers who have been through the Operaʼs training program are already shining in mainstage productions. With the spotlight focused on them, they showed great poise and maturity.

Mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes makes a strong impression in S.F. Operaʼs revival of Rossiniʼs La Cenerentola.

Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri may not be the most famous or most remembered show by Gilbert and Sullivan, but it is one of their best. Lamplighters Music Theatre is, of course, the local specialist in this repertoire.