Kent Nagano, who conducted the Berkeley Symphony from 1978 to 2009, is making his first return appearance with the orchestra ...

Susanna Mälkki \. Before, during, and even after her term as the LA Philharmonic’s principal guest conductor, Susanna Mälkki ...

Morgan Kelly Moss is a composer, pianist, vocalist, and educator currently living in Los Angeles. Morgan has been ...

Brad Sommer @somebsphotos. What a whopping night of fun. Sammy Rae & The Friends performed at The Castro Theatre in San ...

Other Minds, the Bay Area’s annual festival of experimental and new music, celebrated its 30th year in San Francisco last ...

The tulle skirts associated with Romantic-era ballet were introduced in “The Ballet of the Nuns” in Act III of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le diable, which premiered at the Paris Opèra in 1831. Marie ...

The Holy Liftoff is not so much a fixed work as a loosely strung series of short, continuously played compositions that are meant to be open-ended. The flutist and entrepreneur Claire Chase has made ...

San Francisco Ballet has appointed Branislav Henselmann as executive director. The veteran arts administrator will partner with Artistic Director Tamara Rojo as the acclaimed troupe continues to ...

For the 68th year, the public performances of the Merola Opera Program offer an overabundance of delightful discoveries. The Saturday performance of Merola’s Schwabacher Summer Concert at the San ...

The death of soprano Erie Mills is being reported today by Livermore Valley Opera (LVO), where she was artistic director. “The internationally acclaimed coloratura soprano Erie Mills passed away on ...

Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989) was at once one of the most poetic and one of the showiest pianists of the 20th century. His superhuman finger speed, his bombastic fortissimos, and his (not occasional) ...

Russian soprano Elena Pankratova has sung Elektra in some of Europe’s leading opera houses, from Vienna and Amsterdam to Dresden, Lyon and Naples. Now, she brings the demanding title role to San ...