San Francisco

The in-demand conductor is resigning from his position at the Paris Opera after just two seasons.

The Swedish soprano returns to SF Opera to tackle the challenging character of the Dyer’s Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten.

The Seattle organization brilliantly realizes a double bill of operas about the Holocaust by composer Jake Heggie.

The acclaimed New York dance company will have another West Coast home in the seasons to come.

The eminent guitarist pulls together his compadres for a retrospective at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage.

Stranger Love, a monumental new opera by Dylan Mattingly, astonishes in its premiere at the LA Phil.

Die Frau ohne Schatten had its U.S. premiere in San Francisco and is a complicated piece to bring to the stage.

Rent Romus and Heikki Koskinen’s Itkuja Suite has its premiere in Berkeley this week.

The Korean soprano brings her Italian training and experience of motherhood to the role of Cio-Cio-San.

Guitarist William Kanengiser and the Alexander String Quartet pay tribute to the bands that changed the course of music.