By AJ Jaffari Jordan Best and Xavier Prado as Minnie and Dick Johnson. Photo by Russell Low What happens when a classic Puccini opera is given a modern voice for a new audience? The Girl of the Gol…

A new English translation of Puccini's La fanciulla del West gallops into a high school in Pacifica with as much grit and gumption as its titular frontierswoman.

With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.

AI company faces multibillion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models

Clarice Assad's Kontrol brilliantly parodies a tech demo gone haywire.

Experience the grand finale conducted by Cristian Măcelaru featuring West Coast and U.S. premieres by Eunike Tanzil, Lisa Bielawa, Elena Kats-Chernin, and Sean Shepherd celebrating resilience, belongi...

Experience a visionary evening conducted by Cristian Măcelaru featuring Clarice Assad’s Kontrol with violinist Philippe Quint, Jackson A. Waters’ Defending Greenwood, Hannah Ishizaki’s Spin, and Dan D...

Conducted by Cristian Măcelaru, this powerful orchestral program features West Coast premieres by Leilehua Lanzilotti and James Lee III, plus the Creative Lab world premiere of Sarah Hennies’s The Gra...

Cristian Măcelaru leads the Festival Orchestra in premieres by Vivian Fung and Pedro Emanuel Pereira plus Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 15 Lincoln.

He won an Oscar in 2008 for “Falling Slowly,” from the film ‘Once.’

Experience free open rehearsals at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz. Watch composers, conductors, and musicians shape today's new orchestral works before they reach the stage

Experience “We the Dreamers” at Cabrillo Festival 2026 in Santa Cruz, CA—July 26–August 9. New orchestral music, world premieres, and inspiring artists.

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West Bay Opera is presenting Puccini's notorious potboiler with excellent voices in primary roles through May 31.

With three key principles that any opera company would envy to have in the starring roles of this oft-performed, much-beloved opera, West Bay is guaranteed to wow its audiences with a "Tosca" they wil...

Experience “We the Dreamers” at Cabrillo Festival 2026 in Santa Cruz, CA—July 26–August 9. New orchestral music, world premieres, and inspiring artists.

The Hong Kong-born conductor will succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director, becoming the first woman to lead the orchestra in its 115-year history.

<p>Eleanor Selfridge-Field passed away on February 2, 2026, at the age of 85, from complications following an infection.</p><p>Eleanor was born in New Orleans …

In San Francisco, Michael Tilson Thomas turned concerts into living experiences, reshaping music night after night.

After nine series and judging more than 400 challenges, Dame Prue Leith DBE has decided to step down as a judge on The Great British Bake Off.

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Diego Incertis Sánchez, currently with the London Symphony Orchestra, is poised to succeed Robert Ward in this essential position with the San Francisco Symphony.