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  • Lars Ulrik Mortensen conducts Bach

    * Notes * Lars Ulrik Mortensen (pictured left with soprano Maria Keohane, photograph by Michael Strickland) is currently conducting Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in a program of Bach. Friday night’s performance in San Francisco started with the Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066. Mortensen lead the orchestra from the harpsichord, and it was…

  • Cal Performances Fall Free for All 2010

    Cal Performances opens the 2010-2011 season with an impressive array of free performances next Sunday, September 26th. Our beloved San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows Leah Crocetto, Sara Gartland, Brian Jagde, and Tamara Sanikidze are participating. Other performers include Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Melody of China, the John…

  • Philharmonia Baroque Launches Radio Series on 101.2 KDFC

    Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will have a Sunday night radio broadcast series on 102.1 KDFC, starting September 12 at 8:00 pm. Nicholas McGegan, the music director of PBO, is also the host of the program. PBO's Official Site | KDFC's Official Site

  • PBO’s Orlando Media Round-Up

    Production Web Site | Press Photographs Performance Reviews: The Opera Tattler | Not For Fun Only | Civic Center | The Reverberate Hills |  Mercury News | SF Chronicle

  • Händel’s Orlando at PBO

    * Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra opened a run of Händel's Orlando last night at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. The opera was semi-staged, which made a rather silly opera perhaps even less convincing than it might have been. Production aside, the music was lovely. The orchestra sounded cohesive and jaunty under Nicholas McGegan. The strings…

  • Jordi Savall conducts PBO

    * Notes * Jordi Savall started his run of six performance with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco last Friday. The program, entitled "The French Suite in Europe," began with the Suite du Ballet de Stockholm by Guillaume Dumanoir and Anonymous. The orchestra started off quite crisply and the concertmaster, Carla Moore, played boldly. The brass…

  • PBO’s Dido and Aeneas in Berkeley

    * Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra continued a run of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Berkeley last night, along with a full program of other works of this composer. The performance set up was different this time, with the orchestra on stage behind the singers. The acoustics are better in this venue, First Congregational Church, than…

  • PBO’s Dido and Aeneas Media Round-Up

    Production Web Site | Press Photographs Interviews of Susan Graham: SFCV | SFist | SF Chronicle | LA Times Performance Reviews: The Opera Tattler | Mercury News | SF Chronicle

  • Confess the Flame her Tongue Denyes

    * Notes * Yesterday in San Francisco, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performed the first of six performances celebrating Henry Purcell. The evening started with his "O Sing Unto the Lord a New Song," Chacony in G minor, "Hear My Prayer, O Lord," and the Suite from Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge. Conducted by Music Director Nicholas McGegan,…

  • PBO’s The Concerto

    * Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra gave a performance entitled “The Concerto: An Adversarial Friendship” yesterday in Berkeley. The concert featured violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch as the main soloist and leader, and together they played Muffat, Telemann, Biber, Schmelzer, and Bach. In general, the musicians produced a crisp, jaunty sound, their dynamic constrasts were clear, and…