Month: June 2018

Following the beautiful recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony in 2015 – together with his lovely Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture – we could be sure that the Sixth wouldn’t be too far behind.  The Pathétique is now about to be released – and it’s every bit…

In their penultimate program of the 2017-18 season, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony are joined by the sensational young Grammy-winning pianist, Daniil Trifonov, who closes his season-long residency with the Symphony in true Russian style – with the magnificent Piano Concerto No 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff. “Few artists have burst onto the…

June is the month for impressive productions in San Francisco, and this week sees Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony mount a concert version of Modest Mussorgsky’s dramatic opera, Boris Godunov. With a host of international stars – including soloists from both the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatre operas – MTT and the Symphony…

San Francisco Opera has gathered a cast of internationally renowned Wagnerian artists for its momentous production of Der Ring des Nibelungen which opens at the War Memorial Opera House next week. Directed by Francesca Zambello, this ambitious staging of all four operas in Wagner’s Ring cycle once again has Donald Runnicles leading the San Francisco…

San Francisco Opera undertakes a production of epic proportions this month – the complete set of four operas which comprise Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. This dramatic co-production with Washington National Opera, which premiered at the War Memorial Opera House in June 2011, is staged by internationally acclaimed director Francesca Zambello. Donald Runnicles, regarded as…

If it’s June at SFJAZZ, it’s Festival time – and this year no less a celebrity than Ahmad Jamal will be on stage at Davies Symphony Hall to launch the celebrations. NEA Jazz Master, Kennedy Center Living Jazz Legend and hugely inspirational figure in the world of jazz, Jamal has made an indelible impression on…