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

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

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 ...

Before every San Francisco Symphony concert, you’ll see a black-clad figure distributing folders on the musicians’ stands. Most of the time, that’s Margo Kieser, the orchestra’s principal librarian ...

In what’s become an annual tradition at SF Classical Voice, we once again asked you, the readers, to sound off about the best performers and performances of the past season. As always, the Audience ...

SF Classical Voice readers had a lot to think about in answering our 2025-2026 survey. Fiscal uncertainty or not, the Los Angeles calendar was filled with concerts from the interesting to the ...

As the COVID lockdown gradually lifted, arts organizations asked questions about how audience attendance and behavior might have changed as a result of the pandemic. An ominous July 2022 report from ...

This year’s premiere, on July 7, was the Italian composer Francesco Filidei’s Accabadora , based on the late Michela Murgia’s prize-winning novel of the same name. Set in Sardinia at a time when ...

A 14-year-old engagement will turn into wedded bliss when San Francisco’s KDFC and Los Angeles’ KUSC become one main channel this summer under the name of Classical California. “We technically merged ...

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 ...