Peter Knell and Stephanie Fleischmann’s brooding new opera portrays the Soviet side of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Bay Area company brings another forgotten opera to the stage, and this one packs a dramatic punch.
Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program of dark favorites by Modest Mussorgsky, Franz Liszt, and Hector Berlioz.
The fifth in a series of multimedia events gives another meaning to the term “infotainment.”
The violinist was on hand for Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto in a concert also featuring Brian Raphael Nabors’s Upon Daybreak.
The show was only an hour, but with choreographer Alonzo King backed by master percussionist Zakir Hussain, everything was choice.
In his recital at The Wallis, the pianist/composer was oddly uncommunicative.
In SF Opera’s production of Poulenc’s masterpiece, spiritual concerns are powerfully dramatized.
The Icelandic pianist ups the quirkiness factor by recording his latest album on both a grand and an upright.
This collaborative work responding to the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of the police demands sustained attention.
