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Up-and-coming Chinese baritone Ao Li, enjoying a success at S.F. Opera, readies for his salon performance.

The Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra features the prodigy-pianist/emerging-composer Conrad Tao in a memorable program.

Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’ radical theatrical vision can still stir the imagination of audiences and younger musicians, like violinist Jennifer Koh.

Whether taking listeners on a pilgrimage or in a funeral march, pianist Cecile Licad plays to the heart of Liszt and Chopin.

Margaret Jenkins, whose troupe and work has been part of San Francisco’s DNA since the 1970s, presents four performances at the San Francisco JCC’s Kanbar Hall, Oct. 18–21, with dances from the company repertory as well as a preview of the new Time Bones, which she created with her eight dancers. Set to a score by Paul Dresher, it premieres in 2013 as part of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s 40th anniversary season.

Many are familiar with Serge Prokofiev’s strikingly descriptive music for Serge Eisentstein’s film Alexander Nevsky. He also wrote equally expansive music, with vocal soloists and chorus, for another Eisenstein film extravaganza, Ivan the Terrible (1944)

The current revival tour, which began this year in France, heads to Italy, London, Toronto, and Brooklyn before reaching Berkeley. Catch this radical work while you can — you may not get another chance.

Given the fabulous reviews that composer Jake Heggie’s and librettist Gene Scheer’s latest opera has received in Dallas and San Diego, why wouldn’t you want to see the SFO premiere of this heralded work by our local-boy-made-good?

True to form, West Bay Opera delivers a spirited, inviting production of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann.