Features

Three recent releases confirm the excellent health of U.S. contemporary music.

The great pianist talks about his ambitious San Francisco recital, the anxieties of recording, and making friends in the business.

What better way to get your New Year off to a great start than with three videos that have a strong relationship with San Francisco Opera.

Great music and gift ideas for classical music lovers (and how to get hold of them quickly).

Irene Dalis a great star of opera, who has been the founding and commanding grand dame of Opera San José for the past 30 years, died on Dec. 14.

Laszlo Vargaʼs extraordinary career is remembered on the occasion of his death, at nearly 90 years old.

In San Francisco Opera’s understudy room, a sense of camaraderie and good humor prevails, as singers watch a production they’ve prepared to perform, but which will go on without them.

News comes that the Met's deficit is it's most serious in decades, while the S.F. Opera's is way down.

Yuja Wang’s flying fingers and flamboyance may define her public image, but there’s a powerful musical personality and a surprisingly grounded person within that package, as she reveals here.

Is classical music criticism a mortally endangered art form? Top critics at the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism say itʼs actually in a golden age, in some respects. Read the report to find out why.