San Francisco

West Edge Opera has become, perhaps, the most important incubator of new musical theater on the West Coast.

The company marks 90 years with nine new works that play January through February.

Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater heads up the latest configuration of this all-star band that looks to both jazz’s past and future.

In Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions, the composer teases out connections to jazz, surrealist film, and Ruth Asawa.

The company is finding the fun in the composer’s seldom-heard Ercole su’l Termodonte.

Her company’s latest work, Talking Circle, is a collaborative effort that draws on movement, music, and personal experiences.

Offered without critique, a smorgasbord of recorded music released this year.

Offered without critique, a smorgasbord of recorded music released this year.

With sensitivity and expertise, the baritone records music by Mason Bates, Missy Mazzoli, and Gregory Spears.

Tenor Alek Shrader enters the comic book publishing world with some heavyweight names along for the ride.