Symphony San José and the Los Angeles Philharmonic pay attention to the world's biggest sporting event with special concert programs.
Yo-Yo Ma soloed in a new work by Angélica Negrón, and Gustavo Dudamel led Richard Strauss’s great symphonic poem.
Responding to the French modernist’s provocations, the group’s performers and composers took the prompt and ran with it.
BFX will put on over 20 mainstage concerts and 40 “fringe” events this year.
A superb new chamber version of Douglas Cuomo’s opera is given a terrific production.
The design of Barrie Kosky’s imaginative production brought whimsy to the performances.