In a new production of Wagner's Lohengrin at the San Francisco Opera everyone is a star — great soloists, Ian Robertson's Opera Chorus, and Nicola Luisotti leading an orchestra on fire.
Alonzo King's new evening-length work Constellation takes his Lines Dance Company ballerinas off-pointe and away from the naturalistic environment of last year’s stunning Resin.
Conductors matter. This week, Vladimir Jurowski made his SFS debut, and under his baton the orchestra and Ragnar Bohlin's SFS Chorus were as powerful as Siberian tigers, as majestic as the Volga flooding at springtime.
Times Bones, termed a "preview" by its creator, is already luxuriously full of everything you might expect from the master choreographer Margaret Jenkins.