Previews

The Turn of the Screw is one of Benjamin Britten’s tautest, most gripping operas. And, unlike much of the repertoire that the local, small-budget companies take on, this chamber opera is conceived on a scale that emphasizes the virtues of West Edge Opera.

The evergreen classic Bye, Bye, Birdie gets the teen treatment.

Genre-bending musical forms invade this year’s Carmel Bach Festival in Monterey, which promises a range of delights.

You might not expect new compositions at the Carmel Bach Festival, but you should. Director Paul Goodwin has commissioned works for the past three years, this time from Thea Musgrave.

At the American Bach Soloists’ Festival and Academy, another generation of phenomenal players and singers is learning the fine points of early-music interpretation from some of the best in the business.

Takemitsu’s journey from European Modernism back to traditional Japanese aesthetics made him one of the most original and beautiful composers of the 20th century.

If there’s a single event that parents and kids should enjoy together, it is the Garden of Memory mini-festival on June 21 at the Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium in Oakland.

Surprisingly, the upcoming performances of the great American musical at the San Francisco Symphony, with a high-powered cast, will be the first-ever concert run-throughs of the entire show.

The S.F. Symphony celebrates the centennial of The Rite of Spring with four concerts, and MTT credits Stravinsky's with a score that is as "exhilarating and liberating as music can be."

The latest concert of the young, well-received duo ZOFO features music from several space-age composers and, of course, excursions to Gustav Holst’s The Planets.