Previews

The San Francisco Opera has front-loaded its season, and coming up this week is Renee Fleming's appearance in the title role of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.

At the Napa Symphony season opener this week, the sister act Christina and Michelle Naughton play a pair of duo piano concertos, one by Mozart and one by Poulenc.

Everybody gets to have fun with music and other performing arts — for free! — on the UC Berkeley campus.

The self-described Balkan Arabic klezmer-based, original absurdist cabaret ensemble descends on the Bay Area for two sure-to-be-wild shows.

A favorite wind quintet of mine, the Quinteto Latino, which is dedicated to bringing you the music of Mexico and South America, is playing two of the great standards of the repertory at Old First Church on Friday.

This weekend the men's chorus Chanticleer opens the season with a tour of some of the great music written about love – a topic that could fill a few years worth of concerts.

This weekend, Les Graces Baroque ensemble brings that culture to life, showcasing the music of songwriters like Carolus Hacquart the flutist and carilloneur Jacob van Eyck, and the organist Jan Pierterszoon Sweelinck.

The men of Chanticleer pin hearts on sleeves in their fall program. What’s not to love about it?

Pretty much the pick of this week's concerts is the San Francisco Choral Society's full-scale production of Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah.

In recital at Old First Concerts this weekend, cellist Robert Howard (San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque) and his duo partner Elizabeth Dorman offer a variety of interesting music beginning with one of my personal faves, Toru Takemitsu (Orion).