Gearing up for an 11-concert European tour, Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in two weeks of concerts, Feb. 27-March 2 and March 6-9.
Feb. 10 is application deadline for Opera Grants for Female Composers, which provides support for the development of new operas by women. OPERA America invites proposals for grants of up to $15,000 from female composers "able to document their ability to create operatic works."
In what seems to be perfect typecasting, Viennese-born George Cleve makes his Lamplighters conducting debut in the most Viennese of operettas, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus (The Bat).