Reviews

First-rate playing marks a novel recital for violin, harpsichord, and the ungainly yet fascinating dulcian.

In a new production of Wagner's Lohengrin at the San Francisco Opera everyone is a star — great soloists, Ian Robertson's Opera Chorus, and Nicola Luisotti leading an orchestra on fire.

Alonzo King's new evening-length work Constellation takes his Lines Dance Company ballerinas off-pointe and away from the naturalistic environment of last year’s stunning Resin.

Conductors matter. This week, Vladimir Jurowski made his SFS debut, and under his baton the orchestra and Ragnar Bohlin's SFS Chorus were as powerful as Siberian tigers, as majestic as the Volga flooding at springtime.

Times Bones, termed a "preview" by its creator, is already luxuriously full of everything you might expect from the master choreographer Margaret Jenkins.

The Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra features the prodigy-pianist/emerging-composer Conrad Tao in a memorable program.

Whether taking listeners on a pilgrimage or in a funeral march, pianist Cecile Licad plays to the heart of Liszt and Chopin.

True to form, West Bay Opera delivers a spirited, inviting production of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann.

The great Cecilia Bartoli breathes new life into arias by a nearly unknown 17th-century Italian composer, Agostino Steffani, and triumphs in the process.

A pairing of French works delivered delights at S.F. Chamber Orchestra’s season opener.