Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Cellist Gautier Capuçon [Update 11/13: Due to a medical emergency, Gautier Capuçon had to cancel some of the shows. Please double check the program with the SF Symphony] Gautier Capuçon makes his SF Symphony debut
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Classical: Tuned In & OEBS If you feel like celebrating the fallen heroes of gruesome wars on this Veteran's day, we'll point you to the music budgets under assault in Gov. Schwarzenegger's war on education. The San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Susan Graham Grammy-award winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham just headlined a concert series six weeks ago with the San Francisco Symphony, which will be released on a CD as part of the SFS Mahler project. Obviously,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Gabriela Lena Frank As part of its family activities, the SF Symphony organizes a Dia de los Muertos celebration on Sunday, November 1st. There will be vivid, animated displays of spooky papier-mâché figures (you can already
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Vadim Repin Russian violin superstar Vadim Repin chatted with us from Helsinki, quite appropriately, since he'll perform the violin concerto from Finnish composer Jean Sibelius this week with the San Francisco Symphony. He'll partner with
Arts & Entertainment SF Reviews: SF Opera's <em>The Daughter of the Regiment</em> The SF Opera production of La Fille du Regiment definitively put to rest the notion that opera is not the proper format for comedy: who needs agonizing arias when you can get a
Arts & Entertainment Puppet Opera: La Liberazione di Ruggiero La Liberazione di Ruggiero is arguably the first opera written by a woman, and features strong feminist themes and a challenge to patriarchal society, but honestly, they had us at Puppet Opera. And
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Il Trovatore 2nd Cast and L'Abduction from the Seraglio We enjoyed two performances at SF Opera, the 2nd cast of Il Trovatore in the last performance of that run, and Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, which continues for three more performances. The
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend in Classical Music A few concerts for the week-end: Stanford Lively Arts presents the West Coast premiere of Uri Caine's The Othello Syndrome, based upon Verdi's opera Othello. We have tried to get into Uri's reinterpretation
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Thomas Hampson We want to sing a happy birthday to San Francisco Performances, they start their 30th season tonight. Thirty years of bringing amazing chamber music ensemble and world class singers and talented recitalists to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: <em>House in Bali</em>'s Evan Ziporyn One of the most intriguing musical events of the new season is coming up this Saturday and Sunday: the American premiere of A House In Bali, a new opera by composer Evan Ziporyn
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky made an incandescent San Francisco Opera debut this month as Leonora in Il Trovatore, prompting reviewers to glow about her, and rediscover their faith in the workhorses of the Italian
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Il Trittico Even though it's Puccini, the SF Opera has run Il Trittico (the triptych) only twice before Wednesday night's opening. And for the first time on this stage, the same soprano, Patricia Racette, is
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera Opening Night The Opera Opening Night is as glamorous as it gets, and Drew Altizer was kind enough to share pictures with us. Enjoy the pix gallery. There was also a performance and we kinda
Arts & Entertainment Lang Lang at the SF Symphony Gala The SF Symphony waltzed us into the new '09-'10 music season on Wednesday night, with a sparkling opening night gala. The evening started with complimentary champagne in the hallways of Davies Symphony Hall,
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Opening Night Gala Pictures The opening night gala is more a fashion show than a musical performance, and le tout SF was at Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday night to compliment each other on their expensive outfits.
Arts & Entertainment Fall Music Preview: Classical Edition The Fall music season has been launched in orbit with a glitzy gala at the Symphony. This week continues with classical music galore: the other heavy hitter, the SF Opera introduces his new
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Merola Program: L'amico Fritz. Attending the SF Opera Merola concerts is like opening a box of chocolate: the artists are mostly unknown young aspiring singers, dedicating their summer to the training program, so you never know what
Arts & Entertainment SF Interviews Music@Menlo's David Finckel Music@Menlo opens tonight. It's the local equivalent of all these famous fancy summer festivals, Marlboro, or Tanglewood, without the hassle of leaving the bay. So tonight, you can listen to darn good
Arts & Entertainment Gil Shaham and the SF Symphony The SF Symphony journey from Schubert to Berg is coming to an end this week, with a final program combining Berg's Violin Concerto with Schubert's Mass in E flat major. We believe that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Soprano Anna Netrebko No one can sell out the War Memorial Opera House faster than Anna Netrebko. Just try and get a ticket for Saturday night's La Traviata, if you want to see why for yourself.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Eric Owens The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess opens tonight at SF Opera. It used to be dismissed, if you will, as a musical, but has now moved up to be considered one of the best
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Schubert Lied, Berg Too The SF Symphony journey from Schubert to Berg continued on Wednesday with an intimate exploration of some lieder and chamber music, as well as the Lulu suite. The directions for the voyage (which
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Tosca The last Tosca here was in 2004. Considering that Tosca is The Show That Build SFOpera, with 12 runs over in the first 18 years of the company, and since only twice in
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend's Vocalises We learned yesterday that star soprano Patricia Racette had to withdraw from singing today in the Verdi Requiem at the SF Opera house, and will be replaced by Adler fellow Heidi Melton. Racette,
