Previews

A slain leader in the gay rights movement, San Francisco’s own Harvey Milk, is the subject of a new cantata that employs some of his unknown speeches.

In a new production by visual artist Jun Kaneko and sung in English, The Magic Flute is perfect for the whole family.

John Adams’ first opera, Nixon in China, is a thoroughly modern, musically and visually irresistible masterpiece.

Four days of musical pleasures by visiting luminaries await voyagers to the Ojai Music Festival in June.

The divine Dominique  Labelle, Nic McGegan, and a few pals from Philharmonia Baroque lead off the Berkeley Festival and Exhibition with the kind of concert that you only wish came around more often.

As an introduction to the riches of the Spanish classical tradition, you could not do any better than this concert.

Take one day for choral music and look in on this appropriately ambitious concert.

Don't miss the opportunity to experience the intimacy and immediacy of
that drama in this first-ever fully staged production by West Bay Opera
at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto.

The world’s most famous singer of Afghani music (now a Fremont resident) is set to perform her captivating songs in Richmond.

A prolific composer of choral works beloved by choirs worldwide is profiled in a documentary by a first-time filmmaker.