Jason Victor Serinus

The glory and grandness of Puccini and the heart-rending Butterfly of Cecilia Violetta López is on display at the Opera San José.

Brian Asawa's Bay Area is return is welcoming, strong, and expressive.

Live concerts are sometimes only as good as your seat. But Meyer Sound’s Constellation Acoustic System can transform a hall’s acoustics — without your being aware of it.

Baritone Gerald Finley produced a polished, but mannered interpretation of Schubert’s Winterreise.

Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, set to perform the art-defining song cycle Die Winterreise in Berkeley, discusses its many soul-shaking challenges.

Theodora (1749), the Handel oratorio, returned to Weill Hall to transcendent effect.

A packed house greets the West Edge Opera’s concert performance of Rossini’s early opera, Elizabeth, Queen of England; rarely performed, but well-done here.

The Broadway-based chanteuse worked her magic at Bing Concert Hall, in a program that mixed the new and challenging, with nearly forgotten songs from the classic era of American popular song.

New songs, classic songs, collaborations — Anne Sofie von Otter craves doing it all, and does so with class.

"Desire, Despair, Destiny, and Death!" are apt words for Opera Bravura's upcoming opera-scene extravaganza on Jan. 11.