Reviews

In the centennial year of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, comes the new, perplexing and engaging dance/theater piece A Rite.

Two unfamiliar works paired with an old standby featured outstanding singing and a somewhat typical audience reaction to newness.

In Verdi’s birth year, the Chicago Symphony celebrated the right way, led by Riccardo Muti, one of the greatest of the composer’s champions.

Yulan, perhaps best described as a Chinese-style Cirque du Soleil, is a brilliantly colored, imaginative extravaganza starring the Dalian Acrobatic Troupe.

In the S.F Opera's latest production Byrn Terfel's Falstaff remains vocally and physically magnificent, with his giant, peak form voice and towering frame.

A stellar group of collaborators brought an outstanding new musical to Cal Performances.

Fine performances from the Santa Rosa Symphony and Albanian violinist Tedi Papavrami highlight the season opener.

The San José Chamber Orchestra lured a near-capacity audience to Le Petit Trianon for a season-opening concert of daring lesser-known works to great success.

The season opener of the San Francisco Wind Ensemble's second season was a strong display of great musical things already happening, and a very promising indication of great things to come.

The piano duo ZOFO regales its audience with a bright, brainy, bravura all-American program.