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Category: Cal Performances

  • Cecilia Bartoli Cancels Tour 2015

    Cecilia Bartoli has canceled her West Coast Sacrificium tour, due to "unforeseen circumstances." She was to have performed with Sergio Ciomei in Santa Monica on March 21 and 26, in Costa Mesa on March 23, and in Berkeley on March 31 and April 2. The Broad Stage | Philharmonic Society of Orange County | Cal…

  • Cecilia Bartoli’s West Coast Tour 2015

    Tickets for Cecilia Bartoli's West Coast Sacrificium tour are currently available. She is performing with Sergio Ciomei in Santa Monica on March 21 and 26, in Costa Mesa on March 23, and in Berkeley on March 31 and April 2. The Broad Stage | Philharmonic Society of Orange County | Cal Performances | Cecilia Bartoli's…

  • Cecilia Bartoli in Berkeley

    Cecilia Bartoli is performing at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on Tuesday, March 31 and Thursday, April 2 at 8:00pm. She will be accompanied by pianist Sergio Ciomei. Tickets go on sale to the public on Thursday, January 22, but are already available to subscribers. Cal Performances | Cecilia Bartoli’s Official Site

  • Cal Performances 2014-2015 Season

    August 12 2014: Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach’s Cello SuitesSeptember 13 2014: Eco EnsembleSeptember 25-28 2014: Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble October 10 2014: Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston perform WORDLESS!October 11 2014: Afropop Spectacular: Bassekou Kouyate and the Krar CollectiveOctober 12 2014: Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin, pianoOctober 16-19 2014: Australian Ballet performs Swan…

  • Plácido Domingo Concert in Berkeley

    Plácido Domingo is performing at UC Berkeley's Greek Theatre on Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 8pm. He will be joined by guest sopranos Angel Joy Blue and Micäela Oeste and guest conductor Eugene Kohn. Presale tickets are available Tuesday, July 9, at 10am until Saturday, July 13, at 11:59 pm online only through Another Planet…

  • World Premiere of The Secret Garden

    * Notes * San Francisco Opera and Cal Performances presented the world premiere of Nolan Gasser's The Secret Garden (Act II pictured left, photograph by Betsy Kershner) last night in Berkeley. The music features a tiny ensemble of ten instrumentalists, lead by conductor Sara Jobin. The rhythms employed are of interest, particularly in the prologue,…

  • Eric Owens at Cal Performances

    * Notes *  Cal Performances presented baritone Eric Owens (pictured left, photograph by Dario Acosta) in recital with pianist Warren Jones on Sunday. The first half of the performance consisted of German Lieder and the second half French chansons. Owens and Jones started with Wolf's Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Michelangelo, which were performed with…

  • Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

    * Notes * Gustavo Dudamel and the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar (pictured left, photograph by Scott Grieder) played the first of two concerts at Cal Performances last night. The program the orchestra is touring right now is entitled "¡MUSICA! A Celebration of Music from Latin America," thus featuring, in this instance, Carlos Chávez, Julián Orbón, and…

  • Philharmonia Orchestra’s Wozzeck

    * Notes * Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra (pictured left, photograph by Peg Skorpinski) stopped at Cal Performances this weekend as part of a US tour. Last night’s program was a semi-staged version of Wozzeck. The lack of set and costumes allowed the music to take precedence, and the drama of this piece remained vivid…

  • Einstein on the Beach

    * Notes * Cal Performances presented the West Coast premiere of Einstein on the Beach (Act I Scene 2 pictured left, photograph by Cristina Caccone) last night in Berkeley. This collaboration between director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass, first performed on July 25, 1976 at the Festival d’Avignon, feels like a product of its time.…