Previews

Scott Cmiel - October 25, 2012

The Pacific Guitar Ensemble is a group dedicated to keeping this dynamic process alive, and it invites audiences to come along for the ride.

Jeff Kaliss - October 25, 2012

With Locaphonic, Hannah Addario-Berry melds two of the Bay Area’s salient obsessions, food and music, in concerts that have all the right ingredients for success.

Michael Zwiebach - October 24, 2012

There are some anniversaries that have to be celebrated by those who really care. The hundredth anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire is one of those.

Stephanie Jones - October 22, 2012

Read this surprising story of how Richard Patterson found the Pacific Guitar Ensemble and got a home-cooked Italian dinner for 10 into the bargain.

Mark MacNamara - October 19, 2012

The choral director, one of the best in the business, is busy with a brand-new organization, one with plenty of support that seems likely to become a strong artistic presence in the Bay Area community.

Georgia Rowe - October 17, 2012

Up-and-coming Chinese baritone Ao Li, enjoying a success at S.F. Opera, readies for his salon performance.

Janice Berman - October 16, 2012

Margaret Jenkins, whose troupe and work has been part of San Francisco’s DNA since the 1970s, presents four performances at the San Francisco JCC’s Kanbar Hall, Oct. 18–21, with dances from the company repertory as well as a preview of the new Time Bones, which she created with her eight dancers. Set to a score by Paul Dresher, it premieres in 2013 as part of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s 40th anniversary season.

Jeff Dunn - October 16, 2012

Many are familiar with Serge Prokofiev’s strikingly descriptive music for Serge Eisentstein’s film Alexander Nevsky. He also wrote equally expansive music, with vocal soloists and chorus, for another Eisenstein film extravaganza, Ivan the Terrible (1944)

Jason Victor Serinus - October 16, 2012

The current revival tour, which began this year in France, heads to Italy, London, Toronto, and Brooklyn before reaching Berkeley. Catch this radical work while you can — you may not get another chance.

Jason Victor Serinus - October 16, 2012

Given the fabulous reviews that composer Jake Heggie’s and librettist Gene Scheer’s latest opera has received in Dallas and San Diego, why wouldn’t you want to see the SFO premiere of this heralded work by our local-boy-made-good?