Previews

You’re stuffed into a car trunk with three people for so many hours that, when you’re let out into the dark night, your eyes don’t work at first. To your horror, you discover you’ve been dumped off in a cemetery in a foreign country. To the sound of ghostly church bells, bizarre yellow dots flash before your eyes.

Amid the glamour and glitz of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s’s 2009-2010 season, the ensemble’s October concert set “The Concerto: An Adversar

The title of the piece opening Stanford Lively Arts’ 2009-2010 season, aside from its references to Shakespeare’s play of four centuries ago and Verdi’s adaptation (as Otello) to the operatic stage in 1887, denotes a psychopathological rage based on suspected spousal infidelity. There’s a threat, with The Othello Syndrome, that lovers of classical literature and music might be driven into a simila

When is an opera not an opera? When it’s the opening work in a grand entertainment for visiting royalty ...

The Marin Symphony's 2009-2010 opening concert starts with the quintessentially American music of George Gershwin.

In its 11th season, the Ives Quartet once again is taking a fresh look at chamber music, with the result being a typically (for it) eclectic mix of pieces that relate to each other in surprising ways. “Putting the Pieces Together” is the first of its three-concert main-stage series.

Beyond the splendor of the big city’s symphony, the extraordinarily progressive California Symphony is often relegated to “over there” status.

The Bay Area's longstanding professional men's choir is still the gold standard for many devotees of choral singing.

There are lots of good things happening at San Francisco State University this year, beginning with the superb Eroica Trio.