In one of her final concerts with the ensemble, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg leads a program of NCCO-commissioned works, including a standout composition by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
The soprano offers a rare bouquet, delivered with splendid technique and expressiveness.
It’s not easy to produce a good performance of Stockhausen’s tricky, modernist masterpiece, but credit to Voices of Silicon Valley for trying.
Japanese chamber opera informs the composer’s multimedia A Line Becomes a Circle
It’s an unusual mix of instruments, but Ensemble Mise-En makes it work.
Choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s dance version of the Tennessee Williams classic pulls no punches.
Brilliant vocal soloists and solid playing from a group of new faces in the ABS orchestra enlivened Handel's oratorio.
California Symphony contrasted Visconti’s lyrical concerto with big-boned, dramatic works.
Charles Dutoit elicited powerful, emotional music from an augmented S.F. Symphony.
Bass Denis Sedov and the Bay Area Men’s Chorus collaborate in Shostakovich’s masterful setting of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Holocaust epic.