Under the big tent, listeners found Beethoven and Bach rubbing shoulders with jazz, Balkan a capella vocals, and Louisiana folk group Beausoleil.
Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian shine on a program spanning centuries of musical expression.
Lesser-known composers took center stage at Music@Menlo, where real masterworks by Erno Dohnányi and Anton Arensky were shadowed by early works from Mahler and Shostakovich.
Anne Sexton’s dark, wordy libretto is buoyed by strong performances and Conrad Susa’s score.
Stripped down to essentials, this was a visceral, exciting production of Monteverdi's masterpiece, The Coronation of Poppea.
A collaborative song cycle explores the intersection of photography and music.
Pianist Yefim Bronfman is outstanding in the S.F. Symphony premiere of a new piece bustling with musical ideas and technical challenges.
Artists honk, squeal, and roar into new musical territory at the fearless festival.
Leoš Janáček’s powerful music drama gets a thoughtful, musically pungent production.
Vocally and orchestrally, this revival is as good as it gets.
