Features

Brian Gleeson - October 13, 2009
It was an accident.

I remember the day my daughter Sofia came home from the nursery school she attended and told me that her teacher played a guitar during song time.“I want to play guitar,” she said. She was 4. I didn’t listen.

Heuwell Tircuit - October 6, 2009
All kinds of instrumental combinations occur in classical music, though chamber music is by far the most diverse, in terms of instrumentation and variety. If you’ve shunned this area, you’re missing out on much of the world’s greatest music, since many composers have poured their finest concepts into chamber music, especially the string quartet.
Michael Zwiebach - October 6, 2009
The USC Annenberg School for Communication and the National Arts Journalism Program presented a first-of-its-kind virtual National Summit on Arts Journalism last Friday, October 2, 2009 at the Annenberg Auditorium on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles.
Robert Moon - October 6, 2009
“We feel that a performance of an opera shown in movie theaters,” said Giovanni Cozzi, managing partner of Emerging Pictures, a distributor of opera movies from Europe, “is a new art form.” And it is.
Janos Gereben - October 6, 2009

UPDATE: S.F. Lyric Opera Suspends Operations

San Francisco Lyric Opera Artistic Director Barnaby Palmer announced on Thursday that the company is suspending operations, effective immediately, because of lack of funds.
Jesse Hamlin - September 29, 2009
Last November, as the economy came crashing down, San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley stepped onstage before a matinee performance of La bohème and told the audience how the company was coping with the money crunch.
Janos Gereben - September 29, 2009

Atherton's Self-Effacing New Concert Hall

Normally the way you get a story is of no interest to the reader, but this one is different — "pertinent data" was especially difficult to find ... about something that should

Jason Victor Serinus - September 22, 2009

As we approach the year 2010, downloading music has become as ubiquitous as iPods.

Lisa Houston - September 22, 2009

A night like this could get to be a habit. Saturday’s simulcast of San Francisco Opera’s Il trovatore was the seventh free, live simulcast in a tradition instituted by General Director David Gockley in 2006 and the fourth to be held at AT&T Park. The staid glamour of the opera house was happily exchanged by many for a jovial, picnic setting and a ticket price that can’t be beat. (It’s free.)

Janos Gereben - September 22, 2009

San Francisco Ring: Confirmed and Surprising

The very existence of San Francisco Opera's 2011 Der Ring des Nibelungen, confirmed in a company announcement today, is a hard-won, delightful surprise.