San Francisco

The prolific composer talks about her creative life and her new opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

An evening of premieres by women choreographers proves the power of embracing new challenges.

A lost Coltrane album and a document of the final tour Miles Davis and Coltrane made together.

Jazz pianist Dr. Valerie Capers talks about her album Wagner Takes the A Train.

The brass section gets a workout in Wagner's magnum opus, striking both joy and terror in the hearts of the players.

Stephen Sondheim's grand musical is a love poem to the creative impulse.

Seasoned pros and upcoming tyros offer some of the best jazz tickets in the Bay Area this summer.

S.F. Opera builds a Wagnerian dragon for the 21st century.

Keeping up with these quartets isn't easy, because, as new recordings show, they are always doing something new.

With a crackerjack quartet and a sheaf of exciting new material, the local saxophonist shows why his influence is so pervasive.