Nicholas Jones

Spring is in the air for these young singers, who are enchanting in the latest Schwabacher Recital.

The soprano delivers an eclectic program based on her album Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene.

Artistic Director Harry Bicket leads a starry cast in a performance that would have any Baroque operagoer clamoring for more.

The countertenor with the clarion voice bestrides two J.S. Bach cantatas, but three youthful violin soloists steal the show.

Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien, dubbed Music to Accompany a Departure in this production, is radically reconfigured.

The company’s modern premiere of Domenico Freschi’s forgotten 1681 opera gets the details right.

An excellent cast gives excellent performances, making the case for the Walnut Creek-based company.

A musically satisfying performance lacks dramatic coherence in West Edge Opera’s production.

The orchestra, three superb soloists, and extended choral forces bring both the power and tragic intimacy of the work to life.

The group’s season-ending concert was devoted to Handel’s Apollo and Daphne and Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pygmalion.