Arts & Entertainment Composer Jonathan Dove Discusses 'Flight,' His 1998 Opera About A Refugee Trapped In An Airport As a respite to the disheartening stories about refugees being stranded at airport, we offer an opera about a refugee stranded at an airport. And this one is a comedy, just what the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Previews The New Classical Music Season What's coming up this Fall for SF Opera, the SF Symphony, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Opera Parallele, SF Performances, and Cal Performances. Opera in the Park, the free
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Pianist Stephen Hough An interview with pianist Stephen Hough and a review of Opera Parallele's US premiere of composer Tarik O'Regan's Heart of Darkness. British pianist Stephen Hough performs tonight a recital of Debussy and Chopin
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Opera Parallele's 'Anya17' Anya17, an opera which received its US premiere at the Marines' Memorial Theater on Friday evening with a libretto by Ben Kay and music by Adam Gorb, wants to raise awareness about sex
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Opera Parallele's Brian Staufenbiel The double bill of Kurt Weill's and Bertold Brecht's Mahoganny Songspiel with Francis Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias — which you can see this weekend at YBCA — is the brainchild of the Opera Parallele
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Trouble In Tahiti' & 'Winterreise' Two one-act mini-operas staged in April by Ensemble Parallele (Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Barber's Hand of Bridge) at Z Space showed couples wallowing in conjugal misery and midlife crisis. Yet, through
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Soprano Marnie Breckenridge Opera Parallele has been introducing new contemporary opera productions to the Bay Area. This weekend at the YBCA theater, Ainadamar by Osvaldo Golijov, an Argentinian Grammy-winning composer who now teaches in Boston, will
