Reviews

The S.F. Opera opened its 92nd season with Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, Norma, featuring powerhouse soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in an full of pomp and circumstance and vocal delights.

To celebrate St. Teresa as the 500th anniversary of her birth approaches, the Discalced Carmelite Family of the Western U.S. presented an impressive concert featuring Dolora Zajick.

San Francisco Choral Society’s thoroughly prepared choristers sang a musically satisfying and powerful performance of the Brahms Requiem.

Considerable talent and a magnetic stage presence are but two of the gifts of an ad hoc musical duo, Nathan Chan and Audrey Vardanega.

The Merola Grand Finale 2014 offered magic that comes from vocal strength and expert projection, musicality, beauty of tone, clear diction, and convincing acting in a variety of operatic roles.

Music derived from burning lands, sounds of sea and bird, and sax riffs make for an evocative program at the Cabrillo Festival.

The Bay Area was served a generous helping of Russian vocal music last week during the West Coast’s first Russian Choral Festival.

A Music in the Vineyards concert at Silverado Vineyards showcases the viola to great effect.

Hydrogen Jukebox, the dizzying psychological opera that Allen Ginsberg created with Philip Glass is courageously performed by Berkeley's West Edge Opera.

Piano duos cruise the Baltic to provide intriguing, even enthralling works at the biannual Salkind Festival.