Locally, there are two Black musicians in the San Francisco Opera Orchestra: principal piccolo Stephanie McNabb and principal bassoon Rufus Olivier, who got his start with the San Francisco ...

The San Francisco Symphony won a Grammy Award for its world premiere recording of Kaija Saariaho’s “Adriana Mater.” The opera ...

Composer and pianist Gabriela Montero joins Alsop and the Orchestra for the first SF Symphony performances of her Piano Concerto No. 1, Latin. Montero describes the work as a “chiaroscuro ...

It'll be the third time in history the opera has been heard by an audience. It's also the first time in history it'll be recorded for future generations.

From a pair of shows by the reigning “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul” to a pack of animatronic dinosaurs and a tribute to a San Francisco legend, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area ...

Hear excerpts ahead of the production's November 2025 world premiere at San Francisco Opera. Commissioned by San Francisco Opera in partnership with the Chinese Heritage Foundation of Minnesota ...

For 15 years, San Francisco's Opera Parallèle has been known for presenting new and distinctive contemporary works, and this weekend's world premiere of "The Pigeon Keeper" is no exception.

Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra is going to the opera with ... In 2023, Muzik won the Michael Morgan Prize in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s third annual Emerging Black Composers ...