Reviews

The Silicon Valley Music Festival, now in its third season, has acquired some desirable accoutrements: an attractive program book and a set of venues concentrated in downtown San Jose.

A semi-staged production of Peter Grimes by the S.F. Symphony is the perfect way to honor Britten seven months after the centennial of his birth.

Old to freshly minted music highlights the pan-stylistic nature of much contemporary music in the bracing Ojai North festival.

The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts) is a hit, with a libretto by Jeremy Denk, Steven Stucky’s savvy pastiches, conducting by Rovert Spano, deft orchestrations for an ensemble of 40 musicians, and singing by eight superb professionals.

Opera Parallèle's Anya17 packs a wallop, ripped from today's headlines it features a fascinatingly varied score, splendid musical direction, high production values, and an excellent cast.

Few concerts stand out so prominently as this current subscription event by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony.

More than one tragedy unfolded in the S.F. Opera's Madama Butterfly, but the production and direction transcended all to show opera at its finest.

Gamelan dance bracketed the opening concert of the San Francisco Symphony's season-closing minifestival honoring Benjamin Britten (1913-1976).

SFO’s current La traviata, the first in five years, is the Company’s sixth consecutive mounting of John Copley’s attractive, albeit traditional 17-year old production.

Symphony Silicon Valley wraps up its season with a tasty meat-and-potatoes program, including a Weber bassoon concerto side dish.