Author: Admin

The San Francisco Symphony hosts two widely acclaimed and very welcome French artists to Davies Symphony Hall this week – pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and conductor Lionel Bringuier, each in his own right a star turn – with a program of music by Kodály, Ravel and Beethoven. Jean-Yves Thibaudet is well known to San Francisco audiences,…

SFJAZZ is pulling out all stops this week as it launches its 5th Anniversary Season with a series of star-studded concerts.  The celebrations open with a Gala Concert honoring Zakir Hussain, followed by four concerts with the theme ‘traditions in transition’ – each curated by a different jazz celebrity, and each paying tribute to an…

Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony  © San Francisco Symphony It’s well known how dear to the heart of Michael Tilson Thomas is the work of Gustav Mahler, and this week MTT and the San Francisco Symphony delight in presenting to their audiences a program in which the main work is…

https://youtu.be/M51UqyWpYko Chris Botti performs ‘My Funny Valentine’ on the PBS LEGENDS OF JAZZ, Golden Horns, episode © PBS Direct from his regular holiday season residency at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York, Chris Botti arrives in San Francisco this week to take over the Miner Auditorium at SFJAZZ, with a repertoire which is…

Photograph courtesy San Francisco Symphony The San Francisco Symphony, under guest conductor David Newman, continues its 2016-17 Film Series this week with a production which the American Film Institute declared to be “one of the greatest films of all time” – Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront. Produced by Sam Spiegel, with a screenplay by Budd…

Nice Opera heralds the new year with one of the world’s best loved operatic works – Giacomo Puccini’s tragic melodrama, Tosca.  A production by Marseille Opera, it stars Bulgarian soprano Svetla Vassileva in the role of Floria Tosca, Asturian tenor Alejandro Roy as her lover Mario Cavaradossi, and Mexican baritone Carlos Almaguer sings Barone Scarpia,…

It’ll be showbiz all the way on Saturday evening as the San Francisco Symphony bids farewell to 2016 and rings in the New Year at Davies Symphony Hall.  Joining conductor Edwin Outwater and the Symphony will be two award-winning stars of Broadway and TV – Jane Krakowski and Tituss Burgess.  In their first-ever full-length concert…

One of the glories of the Christmas tradition is Handel’s magnificent oratorio, Messiah, and this year, the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Chorus (director Ragnar Bohlin) are led by American conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley in what promises to be another inspirational performance at Davies Symphony Hall. The soloists are soprano Lauren Snouffer, countertenor…

San Francisco Ballet rings in the festive season this weekend with its unique production of Helgi Tomasson’s The Nutcracker. This staging belongs very much to San Francisco, since it was inspired by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in the City in 1915, an event designed to demonstrate San Francisco’s recovery from the devastation of the…

The San Francisco Playhouse lights up the festive season with a simply delightful musical – Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s She Loves Me. It’s the kind of show that gives you a lovely warm glow, with plenty of laughs, infectious tunes and some marvelous dance routines. No surprise then that it was nominated for six…