San Francisco

This new telling of The Tempest from composer Allen Shearer and librettist Claudia Stevens premieres March 25 at Herbst Theatre.

It’s an idiosyncratic but serious recording project, perfect for the iconoclastic player.

The ensemble joins with Avie Records in an ambitious project.

A multimedia performance and conversation at the Ebell Club honors the memory of the great dancer, who died in 2018.

The new chamber opera about prophecy and instability is the climax of the artist’s yearlong residency at UC Berkeley.

Musicians both real-life and fictional played starring roles in several of this year’s nominated films.

The saxophonist/composer, a key figure in the Afrofuturist movement, celebrates 50 years of his band as he moves into new creative territory.

Building on the company’s recent success, General Director Shawna Lucey unveils a lineup with more firsts and some welcome blasts from the past.

The famous 19th-century mezzo Pauline García Viardot wrote this work for her children and vocal students, and it still holds up today.

Two of the recently revived composer’s late masterpieces flourish in a recording with soprano Janinah Burnett and bass-baritone Dashon Burton.