Reviews

Josef Woodard - October 24, 2022

Vocalist Luciana Souza and arranger Vince Mendoza open the annual festival with their deep-dive Storytellers project.

Jim Farber - October 24, 2022

Peter Knell and Stephanie Fleischmann’s brooding new opera portrays the Soviet side of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Nicholas Jones - October 24, 2022

The Bay Area company brings another forgotten opera to the stage, and this one packs a dramatic punch.

David Bratman - October 24, 2022

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program of dark favorites by Modest Mussorgsky, Franz Liszt, and Hector Berlioz.

Jeff Kaliss - October 24, 2022

The fifth in a series of multimedia events gives another meaning to the term “infotainment.”

Michael Zwiebach - October 18, 2022

The violinist was on hand for Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto in a concert also featuring Brian Raphael Nabors’s Upon Daybreak.

Janice Berman - October 18, 2022

The show was only an hour, but with choreographer Alonzo King backed by master percussionist Zakir Hussain, everything was choice.

Jim Farber - October 18, 2022

In his recital at The Wallis, the pianist/composer was oddly uncommunicative.

Steven Winn - October 18, 2022

In SF Opera’s production of Poulenc’s masterpiece, spiritual concerns are powerfully dramatized.

Richard S. Ginell - October 18, 2022

The Icelandic pianist ups the quirkiness factor by recording his latest album on both a grand and an upright.