San Francisco

First-rate performances and production values made for an afternoon of quality opera with no apologies.

Splendid new choreography meets impeccable dancing in Program 7.

Look for dance without limits when AXIS takes the stage during National Dance Week.

A ticket to the big time punched for three superb singers.

The troupe delivers stunning performances of two West Coast premieres and, of course, Revelations.

A quartet of recent recordings full of startling, genre-crossing compositions shows what the classical world had been missing.

A rare performance by the Italian soprano delivers Poulenc’s monodrama of misery and longing.

The latest collaboration between Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young grapples with personal tragedy and PTSD.

San Francisco Ballet loses its head.

The latest work by Lisa Mezzacappa is being performed at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and imagines the frontiers of science in musical terms.