San Francisco

The mezzo who portrayed Rosina despite a broken leg is now one of the finest bel canto singers of our era. Here’s where to start with her discography.

The celebrated teacher who’s trained budding singers at the SF Conservatory of Music and beyond turns 70 this year.

Soprano Pretty Yende leads a winning cast that brings this beautiful new production to life.

For the CD’s rerelease, the violinist has jettisoned one particularly troublesome piece and also recorded a new one by Florence Price.

SFCV chats with the genre-crossing player whose sound lies somewhere between classical, jazz, rock, and Armenian folk music.

The Berkeley jazz pianist introduces her new quintet in a beguiling evening at SFJAZZ.

The star soprano, who makes her SF Opera debut this month as Violetta, says hard work is at the core of everything she does.

New high-profile recordings of works by Erwin Schulhoff, Mieczysław Weinberg, and Alberto Hemsi return nearly lost music to life.

Catherine Cook, Philip Skinner, and Dale Travis were given the SF Opera Medal for their more than three decades of inspired performances.

The saxophonist and longtime SFSU faculty member has carved an idiosyncratic path and brought up a new generation of players his own way.