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Acclaimed cellist Tanya Tomkins is equally at home with early music, the classics, and contemporary compositions, but on the weekend of Nov. 19, it’s the early music and instrument that will be in the limelight.

With a first-rate cast, world class conductor, and superb period instrument orchestra, the El Cerrito–based company reinvented as Berkeley West Edge Opera has taken another major step forward into the future with Xerxes.

The Makropulos Case, Janáček’s penultimate opera and the last production of the San Francisco Opera's fall season, is a roaring triumph in nearly all ways, starting with a stunning performance by Karita Mattila in her role debut as Marty.

When a veteran soprano, lauded for her lyrico-spinto portrayals, takes over as Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at San Francisco Opera, hopes are high for a late-season triumph.

The Berkeley Repertory Theatre is adding another dimension to The Composer is Dead, with an original theatrical adaptation of this wildly popular marriage between Lemony Snicket’s story and Nathaniel Stookey’s musical score. The work comes to the stage Dec. 2.

Marco Pereira, maestro of Brazilian guitar arrives in the Bay Area to offer a bountiful must-see concert.

The S.F. Choral Society swings into action with Maurice Durufle's beautiful Requiem, accompanied by Rodney Gehrke on organ, and the California Chamber Symphony. Bob Geary's groups regularly produce wonders. This will be another.

Leighton Fong and Anna Presler (of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble) and Karen Rosenak (Earplay) join forces for another of the Crowden Music Center's Sunday@ Four concerts. What's not to love?

Voices of Music, the little band of hard-core early music players, is a presence on the Web. You can hear them live this weekend in a concert of 17th-century fantasias by a group of composers you may never have heard of.

Arnaldo Cohen is rightly esteemed by afficionados of classical piano; now is your chance to catch him in his four-hand recital with up-and-comer Nareh Arghamanyan at Herbst Theatre.