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Berkeley Symphony Music Director Joana Carneiro — also Principal Conductor of the Portugal National Symphony — makes her Spoleto Festival debut on May 28, conducting the Festival Orchestra in a program of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, John Adams’ Doctor Atomic Symphony, and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestr

Susan McMane, formerly of the San Francisco Girls Chorus, and Vance George, Chorus

The Eureka Symphony, a 22-year-old community orchestra in H

A Coffin in Egypt, a new opera by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Leonard Foglia, stars Frederica von Stade in the Houston Grand Opera's world premiere.

At the high end of the ticket range for San Francisco Ballet

Michael Tilson Thomas said the following in an interview with Christopher Morley in the

"Contentious" is what The New York Times predicts that labor negotiations will be when union contracts with the Metropolitan Opera expire this summer: