San Francisco

With a top-notch faculty and wonderful collaboration and performance opportunities, the Conservatory enters the vanguard of jazz education.

The Adler Fellowship fosters emerging opera talent. A concert showcases the departing class just as the new roster of rising stars is announced.

The first American to join the Bolshoi Ballet relates the story of his rise, fall, and hard-won comeback.

The great jazz vocalist talks about his new holiday album and upcoming concert at the Herbst.

Stellar performances and flashes of musical brilliance aren’t enough to lift an opera that tells too much and shows too little.

An immersive performance experience takes participants through the streets and hidden corners of San Francisco.

The Chicago company serves a foolproof recipe: four intriguing pieces danced to perfection.

The trumpet virtuoso is inventing new protocols for compensating musicians outside of the concert hall.

The dance company is blurring boundaries for Cal Performances, but also acknowledging the complexity of that act.

The rising soprano reflects on her evolution as a singer and on preparing for her upcoming role in Girls of the Golden West.