Month: February 2019

  • September 23 2019- February 1 2020: Porgy and BessSeptember 24- October 26 2019: ManonSeptember 25- October 12 2019: MacbethOctober 3 2019- April 25 2020: TurandotOctober 11 2019- April 11 2020: Madama ButterflyOctober 20- November 10 2019: Orfeo ed EuridiceOctober 25 2019- May 7 2020: La BohèmeNovember 8- December 7 2019: AkhnatenNovember 16 2019- February 22…

  • This summer there are changes for all three operas on offer at San Francisco Opera. Countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (pictured) makes his San Francisco Opera debut as Medoro in Orlando, replacing David Daniels who was fired last November after serious allegations of sexual assault. Bass Kristinn Sigmundsson is Vodník in Rusalka instead of Ferruccio Furlanetto,…

  • New music proponent Other Minds is presenting a West Coast premiere of two piano arrangements by Shostakovich, one of his Symphony No. 4 and the other of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. The performers are pianists Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies (who is also a well-known conductor). The concert promotes their February album release of…