Conductor Daniela Candillari led the festival orchestra in Missy Mazzoli's violin concerto, with Jennifer Koh as soloist, and works by Nina Shekhar and John Corigliano.
The opera about labor leader Dolores Huerta and the 1968 Delano Grape Strike is taut as a political thriller and musically transporting.
SF Opera’s training program for young singers performed the comic opera on July 31.
Versailles Opera’s winning production of Donizetti’s Daughter of the Regiment is played for laughs without sacrificing its musical value.
Performers Kristin Lee and Michael Stephen Brown curated the program to showcase arrangements for violin and piano.
A stunning new recording from Les Arts Florissants offers a trove of scintillating Baroque duos.
Leonard Slatkin conducted a program including his son Daniel’s Voyager 130 and Gustav Holst’s The Planets.
Trios by Czech and German composers were boldly performed on July 20 at the Menlo School’s Spieker Center.
Among the delightful events, the locally produced documentary and a recital of piano music by Gordon Getty stand out.
The directors keep expanding the festival’s programming in surprising and inventive ways.
