Maria Goodavage

The opera Juno and Avos has been running for 30 years in Moscow. Bay Area audiences are about to find out what the fuss is all about.

A composer/cellist Zoë Keating readies for a performance with a venturesome modern dance troupe.

Do dogs dig Debussy? Some preliminary research has resulted in a line of recordings that is fast becoming the latest must-have pooch product.

As the San Francisco Opera gears up for its massive Wagner marathon this summer, ancillary events around the Bay Area will explore the composer’s life and ethos.

When Verna Parino talks about the main man in her life, she grasps her coffee mug tightly and sits up tall in her living room chair, her cheeks aglow, her crystal blue eyes twinkling in morning sunlight. “He may be eccentric, but he inspires passion on so many levels.”

S.F.–based musician Pamela Z has been getting rave reviews for her musical wizardry for decades. Yet, exactly what she does is hard to pigeonhole and becomes more hyphenated with time. She talks with SFCV about her upcoming series, art, and experimenting with everything from music to food.

Music festival meets football in a totally serendipitous way. And that's not all that's great about the Hot Air Music Festival at the San Francisco Conservatory.

The Music Together program fosters love of music in very young children (and their parents), and even helps them develop important musical skills.

Classical guitarist Sharon Isbin recently won a 2010 Grammy Award for for her CD Journey to the New World and became the first guitarist in 43 years to receive two classical Grammies. Here, the director of the guitar departments at the Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival, hailed by Boston Magazine as “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time,” talks with SFCV.

This is not your grandfather’s music career: A look inside today's career musician, where the playing field has changed in a sea of downloads and fierce competition, where only the most savvy and entrepreneurial succeed. Time to "get out of your music ghetto."