Janos Gereben

San Francisco Opera is releasing an excellent video version of Jake Heggie's opera on DVD today, and on Friday, PBS' Great Performances will telecast the opera nationwide. Locally, KQED-TV will relegate the telecast to the usual pre-dawn viewer Siberia a couple of times, but makes an exception of joining the rest of the country on Friday:

Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey will be well in evidence in the city next week, with a free event on Nov.

Musicologist Evan Baker, a frequent visitor to San Francisco to give lectures on SFO productions, has

Thanks to the S.F.