Joe Cadagin

Joe Cadagin holds a doctorate in musicology from Stanford University, where he completed a dissertation on composer György Ligeti. He is a regular contributor to Opera News magazine. You can read more of his work here.

Articles By This Author

Joe Cadagin - September 26, 2016

Solid performances highlight a streamlined production that emphasizes contemporary themes in the Weimar-era opera.

Joe Cadagin - May 9, 2016

With his opera in suspended animation, the composer Mark Grey puts forth a Frankenstein Symphony based on its themes at the Berkeley Symphony.

Joe Cadagin - May 3, 2016

In Hunger Strike, composer and vocalist Amy X Neuburg turns our attention to the conditions of solitary confinement.

Joe Cadagin - April 25, 2016

The new-music ensemble takes the audience on a sonic trip with Fausto Romitelli’s eerie video opera at the Freight and Salvage.

Joe Cadagin - March 9, 2016

The extraordinary music Monk creates, largely with her own voice, still has the power to amaze, as a recital drawn from her long career showed.

Joe Cadagin - March 1, 2016

The often-ignored repertory of 17th-century oratorios, was given a vigorous, musically satisfying revival in California Bach Society’s latest concert set.

Joe Cadagin - February 4, 2016

Messiaen asks the orchestra to move us toward the infinite in Des Canyons aux étoiles.

Joe Cadagin - February 1, 2016

The singer-songwriter/composer joined string quartet Brooklyn Rider for a different kind of Schubertiade.

Joe Cadagin - November 23, 2015

The early music ensemble performed “songs, dances, and fancies” with flair at Palo Alto’s First Presbyterian Church.

Joe Cadagin - November 18, 2015

The quartet shifted seamlessly between genres in a wide-ranging program.