Berkeley Symphony Music Director Joana Carneiro — also Principal Conductor of the Portugal National Symphony — makes her Spoleto Festival debut on May 28, conducting the Festival Orchestra in a program of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, John Adams’ Doctor Atomic Symphony, and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestr
A Coffin in Egypt, a new opera by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Leonard Foglia, stars Frederica von Stade in the Houston Grand Opera's world premiere.