June 29, 2013
Cosi Fan Tutte in SF
Faith and pheromones at the Opera House.
Hijinks and low cunning filled the stage of the San Francisco Opera last Saturday night for one of the most delightful endeavors of...
June 2013
June 18, 2013
Silicon Valley Music Festival
A musical frolic in the South Bay
One of the most seriously experimental—and fun—concerts I’ve heard in a while took place in an out-of-the-way church east of San Jose. Last Tuesday, June 18, the Alum Rock Methodist chapel held the opening of the Silicon Valley Music Festival, marking the second year of a new South Bay venture.
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June 14, 2013
Ojai North! at UC Berkeley
Each June, Ojai, CA is a scene of intense music making as musicians and composers gather for the West Coast’s longest-running festival of contemporary music. In the Bay Area we are fortunate that for the last three years Ojai’s four-day festival was followed by a partnership with Cal Performances (renamed Ojai North!) for a second complete run in Berkeley.
This year, choreographer Mark Morris (famed here for his Hard Nut), assumed the rotating mantle of Artistic...
June 7, 2013
Opera Parallèle produces “Gesualdo”
Madness in the madrigal form…
San Francisco’s ever-adventurous Opera Parallèle staged a working reading of Dante da Silva’s Gesualdo, Prince of...