Opera

The San Francisco Opera music director talks about music, art, and how artists are real people, too.

A well-played revival makes a convincing case for a rare opera.

Local composer Allan Shearer and his librettist Claudia Stevens have taken one strand of a great novel and brought it to the operatic stage.

An intrepid singer finds a long-lost Venetian Baroque opera and brings it to performance.

While it’s hard to explain the artistic alchemy that makes Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s opera a success, it is surprisingly entertaining in the theater.

An inspiring voice teacher speaks of the challenges and thrills he experiences with his opera-stars-to-be, at the Merola and Adler programs of S.F. Opera.