Michael Zwiebach

Redwood Symphony gathered a top-tier cast for a stirring concert performance of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece.

The contemporary opera company is bringing a diverse slate of work to San Francisco next season.

Led by Kedrick Armstrong, the orchestra performed Dett’s 1932 oratorio The Ordering of Moses — it deserves to be played more often.   

The Choir gave a polished, exciting performance of one of the most challenging works in the choral canon.

Charged with emotion, the soprano gave a glimpse of her upcoming album, “The Fiddle and the Drum,” at Zellerbach Hall last Sunday.

The guitarist played a Concierto de Aranjuez for the ages and the orchestra premiered Henry Dorn’s seductive Blues Variations.

At Bing Concert Hall, the world-class soprano delivered a memorable program of Italian and Spanish works plus six encores. 

The new season is scheduled to include an opera, two oratorios, and a new work by composer-in-residence Tarik O’Regan.

Sci-fi golems, a dissident Iranian poet, internet radicals, and a morally compromised reporter are all in the mix in the festival of new operas.

The two companies say they are saving money and retooling to strengthen themselves in a tough environment.