San Francisco

Many of these artists have been getting the spotlight year-round from leading presenters, and rightly so.

In a new series, the KDFC/KUSC resident artist continues to cover underrepresented composers and the history that makes American music so rich.

The drummer brings her four-part multimedia suite to SFJAZZ, working with the Del Sol String Quartet and dancer Babatunji Johnson, among others.

In a major recital for LA Opera, the tenor sings three world premieres dealing directly with being proudly gay.

Music Director James Conlon devises a citywide celebration of the composer ahead of LA Opera’s production of Pelléas and Mélisande.

Classical insiders, like conductor JoAnn Falletta, have major issues with the film’s veracity, but they’re still fascinated.

In Variations on a Theme by FDR, composers from John Harbison to Vijay Iyer take inspiration from emblematic American stories.

As ever, the future of opera looks bright with this incoming class of singers, pianists, and stars in the making.

The company realizes Jack Perla’s one-act An American Dream in vivid detail.

The Takács Quartet’s first violinist tracks his own history and those of favorite composers in Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home.