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Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Music@Menlo Names Next Directors

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Dmitri Atapine (left, with cello) and Hyeyeon Park (right, at piano) Cellist Dmitri Atapine and pianist Hyeyeon Park will be the next direct...

Season Updates from San Francisco Symphony

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Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch S.F. Symphony has announced some additions and updates to the 2025-26 season. As I had e...

San Francisco Opera Pride Concert

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San Francisco Opera's Pride Concert with projections by Tal Rosner, June 27, 2025. Photo: Matthew Washburn/San Francisco Opera Click to ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Good News

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San Francisco Opera and the Opera Orchestra have signed a contract...eleven months after the last one expired: San Francisco, CA (June 30, 2...

A Good Month for Queerness at SFCV

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I have no idea whether it was deliberate, but SFCV has had the following articles recently: Brian Mulligan artist spotlight , by Victoria Lo...

San Francisco Opera Cast Change: Rigoletto

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Yongzhao Yu. Photo: Jeffrey Larson Courtesy of San Francisco Opera Tenor Giovanni Sala has withdrawn from the fall performances of Rigoletto...

Museum Mondays

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  King Philip II of Spain Pompeo Leoni Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City April, 2025
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Learned at the Pride Concert

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Last fall, I sat in the orchestra section of the War Memorial Opera House for the concert in which Eun Sun Kim conducted the San Francisco O...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Updated

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I've updated my June 5 post about the SFO La Bohème , with links to Thomas May's review and Joshua Kosman's comments on the alte...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Friday Photo

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One Eleven Sutter Street, San Francisco June, 2025  
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Yet More Music Director Updates

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New updates (major thanks to reader Geo. for most of these!): Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra appoints conductor, harpsichordist, solo bassoo...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Tartuffe at Pocket Opera

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  Baritone Eugene Brancoveanu, standing, as Tartuffe and mezzo-soprano Courtney Miller as Elmire in Pocket Opera’s production of Kirke Meche...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Finckel and Wu Han to Retire from Music@Menlo

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  Uncredited photo from Music@Menlo email Twenty-five years after cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han founded the annual summer festiva...
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Museum Mondays

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Christ on the cross, between the Virgin and Saints Mary Magdalene and John the Evangelist; The Agony in the Garden and Saints Peter and Paul...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Friday Photo

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Seen in Oakland June, 2025  
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Music at Kohl Mansion

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I'm sorry to say that I've never been to a concert at Kohl Mansion , which for many years has had an excellent chamber music program...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

SFS: Mahler 2nd Brass

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Well, you know, they were great, but there's no space for listing them all in a review, so here they are: Horns Diego Incertis Sanchez J...
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Esa-Pekka Salonen at SFS

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Esa-Pekka Salonen and members of the San Francisco Symphony June 12, 2025 Photo by Lisa Hirsch The last few weeks have felt like all Salonen...