Reviews

The San Francisco Dance Film Festival offered fine examples of live performance on film and video, in a showcase in which the shorts intrigued the most.

Sumptuous vocalism displayed in a personal grab bag of soprano-rarities marks Renée Fleming’s latest CD.

The San Francisco Symphony's subscription series opening the 2013-2014 season is well balanced: something new and interesting, something old and well-worn, something rare and tremulous.

In its season opener, the San Francisco Symphony delivered jazz-age style with verve and necessary brashness.

Heart-wrenching, muscular star performances plus a rafter-shaking Chorus send this S.F. Opera production into the stratosphere.

At a Napa Valley vineyard, a thirsty audience laps up a liquescent recital, with one hilarious interlude.

A presentation of the Goat Rodeo Sessions offers a star-studded lineup and an evening of musicianship at its finest.

Though not a perfect Verdi tenor, Kaufmann is viscerally exciting and among the best we have right now.

Magisterial soloists, an enormous choir, and a fine orchestra perform Haydn’s oratorio “The Seasons” to a fare-thee-well.

The Merola Grand Finale 2013 displayed one of the finest choruses anyone will ever hear perform the finale from Bernstein’s Candide, showcasing six principals, each of whom sang as though stardom is already theirs.