Lisa Hirsch

The quartet searches for the intersection of Beethoven and four new commissions in “Healing Modes.”

The venerable institution is vital and current, as a week of performances demonstrates.

The well-cast revival of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen holds up.

The Baroque masterpiece comes to life at Zellerbach, with an unfamiliar ending.

The tenor is a perfect match for Tyshawn Sorey's song cycle about the experiences and aspirations of black men in America.

Like father, like son: John and Samuel Carl Adams appear in a concert by the string quartet that has embraced their music.

Choreographer KT Nelson and composer Joby Talbot collaborate in a transcendent work inspired by the Compostela pilgrimage route.

Piano duo ZOFO presents a dazzling suite of commissioned musical responses to 15 contemporary paintings.

In a marathon performance feat, the consummate musician performed 21 commissioned works over the course of six hours.

Stellar performances and flashes of musical brilliance aren’t enough to lift an opera that tells too much and shows too little.