Reviews

The dissolute knight Falstaff sings out in Gordon Getty’s concert version of Plump Jack.

Youth and age made for interesting comparisons at the season opener for Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg’s New Century Chamber Orchestra in Menlo Park.

Unique sounds simmer and boil at Classical Revolution’s latest showcase performance in Berkeley.

Thematic programming can challenge even so distinguished a chorus as Chanticleer, as evident in its season opener. Some performance issues ensued.

Performance Indeterminate Cage Opera was its acronym. Audiovisual
plethora was its game. Pleased-and participating-attendees, its result.

You’ll probably enjoy Musical Art Quintet’s first CD if you don’t demand that music communicate on multiple emotional levels.

The opening of San Francisco Symphony's second subscription series of the 101st season tonight was a blast from the past, one that spoke to a new audience.

The New Esterházy String Quartet, with soprano Christine Brandes, was equally at home in the works of Haydn’s London period and in his less-showy, earlier pieces.

Pianist Lara Downes offers music of exiled composers in an intimate setting, to launch the inaugural Classical Revolution Festival.

Opera San Jose is a first-rate demonstration of why opera companies have been rediscovering this pearl of an opera by the young Georges Bizet.