Music News

Francesca Zambello is in town again to direct S.F. Opera's Sept. 11 season-opening Luisa Miller by Verdi.

The San Francisco Symphony started its big European tour on Thursday and Friday, performing at the Edinburgh Festival.

San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley created verbal fireworks in New York when he criticized George Benjamin's Written on Skin.

Tributes pour in after news of George Cleve's death on Thursday morning.

Effective immediately Giuseppe Finzi is leaving the post of resident conductor at the S.F. Opera, to be replaced by Spanish maestro Jordi Bernàcer.

Opening the 2015-2016 season in style and with generosity, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is gifting the community with a weekend festival of free performances and events.

Riccardo Chailly, know to Bay Area music lovers as the man who conducted the San Francisco Opera's famed 1977 Turandot premiere , has been appointed music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

Remembering Joseph Scafidi, his accomplishments with the San Francisco Symphony, and his impact on the city.

Oakland Symphony's "new name" is just the good, old one, replaced for some years with the awkward but legally-financially necessary "OEBS."