San Francisco

The choreographer’s latest offering is an outdoor production at a farm in Petaluma, gourmet dinner included.

Genres blend and blur at the annual experimental music festival in Berkeley.

The company’s appearance at the Hollywood Bowl next week will be entertainment with a serious purpose.

With the discovery of master tapes for the original Peanuts TV specials, one of America’s most underrated jazz figures gets the spotlight.

The opera here sports a powerful cast and Mark Elder conducting a fully committed London Symphony Orchestra.

This version of the opera, captured in concerts with the LA Phil last year, improves on any live performance.

The Walnut Creek company is staging Francis Poulenc’s La voix humaine in dialogue with Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

Christopher Alden’s witty production is matched with brilliant singing and acting in this top-notch staging.

Expect the usual innovative approaches to subject matter and staging, especially in the long-awaited new production of Harvey Milk.

In its West Coast premiere, Gregory Spears’s opera about two closeted gay men is a moving reminder of what’s always at stake with love.