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The upcoming year at the performing arts center on the Cal State Northridge campus promises a little bit of everything.

Sweeney, who retired as executive director last week, guided the festival to sustainability and furthered its educational mission.

Kate Soper’s “philosophy-opera” gets an outstanding production from director James Darrah and Long Beach Opera.

The Finnish composer’s late masterpiece, about a school shooting and its enduring effects, premieres at SF Opera.

Arranger and bandleader John Clayton has completed the score for The Africa Suite using unfinished recordings from Peterson’s “vault.”

With “Shifting Ground,” a commissioning and recording project, Kenney is approaching Baroque music as the start of something contemporary.

Hear how composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell approached the adaptation in a new recording from Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s richly imagined production is a visual feast, though sometimes at the cost of the music and the action.

Brett Mitchell’s inaugural season as music director is the next chapter in the orchestra’s nearly century-long history.

Montero offers a brilliant improvised encore, in addition to a Mozart concerto, on this program that also includes a new work by Nina Shekhar.