Steven Winn

An intriguing concept and strong performances lift short operas by Jake Heggie and Leonard Bernstein above an overly fussy production.

The orchestra shows versatility supporting Isserlis and in a lithe performance of a Haydn symphony.

Janáček and Tchaikovsky topped the bill, but smaller, less-familiar pieces provided the real highlights.

The North Bay orchestra demonstrates why it should be on any music-lover’s radar.

S.F. Symphony’s stripped-down staging highlights the operetta’s strengths and weaknesses.

The general director mixes the fresh and the familiar in a season of "emotive storytelling."

Soloists Nikolas Nackley and Tonia D’Amelio straddle the spiritual and the erotic in a charged performance of two cantatas.

The violinist’s musicality and technique lit up four sonatas and partitas in a recital at Davies Hall.

S.F. Symphony’s imaginative music incubator featured exhilarating, intergenerational family duets.

Thomas Adès’s operatic adaptation of Buñuel’s nightmarish masterpiece works brilliantly. Catch the encore in a theater near you.