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The long-running event features more than 400 dancers and musicians representing 20 world cultures.

The second cast delivered intriguing but mixed performances in the S.F. Opera production.

The Catalan director will stand in for Calixto Bieito in a production that strives for true Spanish soul without the usual clichés.

The lauded American singer engages life with the same visceral intensity he brings to his musical roles.

Artistic Director Céline Ricci reanimates another long-lost operatic gem like last year’s hit, La Cleopatra.

The popular mezzo-soprano channels the tragic Egyptian queen in Berlioz’s cantata.

It may sound esoteric, but contact improvisation is becoming more central to contemporary dance, and is even taught at corporate retreats.

The talented countertenor died April 18, 2016, at the age of 49.

In recent recordings, the S.F. Symphony gives us a bevy of Bates, Philharmonia Baroque resuscitates a serenata, and American Bach Soloists air a rarely-performed version of Handel’s Messiah.

The opera from composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer explores Nazi persecution at a personal level.