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Jun Kaneko’s spectacular projections and costume designs star, along with some top-rank singing, in San Francisco Opera’s delightful new production.

SFCV critic Janos Gereben picks 10 events for the summer, just as summer festivals are springing up and other seasons are in full bloom. 

Violinist Hilary Hahn pairs with the prepared piano of Volker Bertelmann (aka Hausckha) on the spontaneous and exotic Silfra.

Explore The Magic Flute with S.F. OperaThe California Youth Symphony Goes Down UnderCelebrate Summer in the Garden of Memory

In the San Francisco Opera's presentation of Attila a great baritone shines in this early Verdi opera.

Michelle DeYoung returns to San Francisco to sing a favorite role — Judith, wife of Bluebeard, who learns some things she might in retrospect rather not have in Béla Bartók's early opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

San Francisco symphonic music lovers have a deep affection for the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the feeling must be mutual. Last weekend, the orchestra and Charles Dutoit presented crowd-pleasers.

The Ojai North festival began with an outdoor hour of exquisitely graduated, nature-inspired sounds; John Luther Adams' Inuksuit arranged by Steven Schick.

It’s a tale for our times, though not an uplifting one. In the end, no one would or could do what was necessary to save a local professional orchestra.