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Tobias Picker's opera is revived by the adventurous, if shoestring-budgeted, Los Angeles company.

Meeting the challenge of Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony is a struggle for both orchestra and audience, but the OEBS made it look easy.

Music at Mission Blue is a worthwhile but little-known arts haven. Check it out.

Continuing on from Infinite Jest, John Adams continues to mine Beethoven for musical ideas.

Forget “autumnal”: The Budapest Festival Orchestra brought full-throated, heroic Brahms symphonies to Davies Symphony Hall.

Jenny Bilfield, formerly chief of Stanford Lively Arts and now head of the Washington Performing Arts Center is making her mark with an exciting new festival set for 2017.

The Bay Area has as many local opera companies as microclimates. Make way for Island City Opera, which opened a well-cast Lucia di Lammermoor this past weekend.

Anne Sofie von Otter is a great performer you root for. But her recital with pianist Angela Hewitt was not all gold, despite that.

The celebrated organist talks about Messiaen’s Livre du Saint-Sacrament, which he performs this weekend, and about advocating for his instrument.

A star-studded week wrapped up as John Adams conducted his Grand Pianola Music and Malcolm MacDowell and Elvis Costello headlined A Soldier's Tale.