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How often does our City’s Symphony turn 100 years old, and how often can we exult classical music en masse? Here’s the chance to celebrate the longevity and essence of the San Francisco Symphony, with a free, live concert carnival in the Civic Center Plaza.

Less popular than Mozart's comic operas, his Idomeneo is still a dramatic, musically bold opera with a lot to say. It's also the biggest production Opera San José has yet undertaken.

It was well worth the wait, to hear the Pražák Quartet’s fleet take on the Borodin Second Quartet.

Though there are fewer big presenters in the South Bay, you don't have to trek north to find great artists playing seriously entertaining music. Here are a few best bets in the San Jose-Palo Alto area.

A true-to-the-original production of Gershwin’s masterwork is blessed by four outstanding women singer/actors, but marred by lax baton work.

The Grand Finale of the Merolini serves as a coming-out party for singers who may rise to the top of the operatic world or settle in the middle ranks.

Carmel’s new Days and Nights Festival embraces the idea of repetition, with brilliantly played works by founder Philip Glass, Schubert, and Shostakovich

A noted opera director reflects on collaborating with San Francisco Opera on a new work based on the 9/11 attacks.

Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s opera Four Saints in Three Acts receives a colorful, if often inscrutable, remounting at Yerba Buena Center.