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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Tonight starts a run of San Francisco Symphony performances that are pretty much the last non-seasonal performances...
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
LA Opera's current financial woes drove it to seek an "emergency" $14,000,000 loan from LA County,...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
San Francisco Opera's fall season concluded last night and I wanted to congratulate the company for a very...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Making its long overdue Met debut, Janacek's final opera From the House of the Dead, based on the Dostoevsky...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Our second evening of operas at the Met was Robert Lepage's production of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust....
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Sadly, it's a name not many Americans are familiar with, but as the word gets out about...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
San Francisco Opera's fall season was so satisfying on artistic level that it seemed almost impossible that...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Do you remember the first time you ever saw this album? I saw it the first time in 1975 while standing in a...
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Semyon Bychkov led the San Francisco Symphony through Rachmaninoff's The Bells and Symphony No. 2 last night at...
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Molly Fillmore was flown in from Arizona yesterday to replace an ailing Nadja Michael as the lead in San Francisco...
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