SFist Reviews: 'Holy Sisters' at the Berkeley SymphonySoprano Jessica Rivera shone in Holy Sisters, a new work by Berkeley composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Billed as a "Hungarian Excursion," the season finale of the Berkeley symphony was mostly for us a trek to the East Bay: we had meant to check out the orchestra since the relatively... continue reading on SFist
SFist Interviews: Finnish Conductor Susanna MalkkiSusanna Mälkki conducts the SF Symphony this week-end Susanna Mälkki broke the glass ceiling at La Scala, being the first woman to conduct an opera there, and we thought it must have happened in the seventies, eighties the latest. Sure, the Milan opera is old and venerable; Rossini, Verdi,... continue reading on SFist
SFist Reviews: Stéphane Denève with the SF Symphony Conductor Stéphane Denève, photo credit: Drew Farrell It's French week at Davies Symphony Hall, with a cheese-eating conductor (Stéph Denève), soloist (Jean-Yves Thibaudet) and composers (Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Roussel and Stravinsky during his Paris years). The orchestra in the pit is the SF symphony, back from their American Maverick tour,... continue reading on SFist
SFist Reviews: the Cleveland OrchestraFranz Welser-Möst conducted the Cleveland Orchestra on Sunday and Monday nights at Davies Symphony Hall. The Cleveland Orchestra, in a press conference known as The Decision, announced that they were taking their talents away from the Midwest. Their goal in leaving Cleveland wasn't to win six, seven or eight... continue reading on SFist
SFist Interviews: Baritone Eugene BrancoveanuEugene Brancoveanu (pictured with Susannah Biller in Ensemble Parallele's 2011production of Orphee) sings The Little Match Girl Passion tonight, tomorrow and Sunday with the San Francisco Lyric Opera A sure sign that the economy is turning around, besides IPOs raining gazillionaires on Noe Valley, the resurrection of the San... continue reading on SFist
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