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Search ArticlesSan Francisco Symphony Appoints Manfred Honeck to New Festival Director Position
Manfred Honeck | Credit: Courtesy of Manfred Honeck San Francisco Symphony has announced the creation of a new multiseason festival under the direction of Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck. Beginning in the orchestra’s 2028–2029 season, the festival will “explore distinct fundamental themes of the human experience — such as birth, community, healing, death, and love — through works of the core symphonic repertoire,” according to Thursday’s announcement.
Agreement Reached in S.F. Opera Orchestra Strike
San Francisco Opera Orchestra | Credit: Courtesy of San Francisco Opera Orchestra Five days after the San Francisco Opera Orchestra struck the season-opening performance of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, the labor action is over. San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, represented by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 6, jointly announced on Wednesday night that they had reached a tentative settlement on a new four-year contract.
Christian McBride and Friends Celebrate Ray Brown and the Art of “Forward Motion”
Christian McBride | Credit: Ebru Yildiz It was a bit past 7:30 p.m. when SFJAZZ CEO Gabrielle Armand brought three good friends onto the Miner Auditorium stage to play a set in living memory of the great bassist Ray Brown. She left the settling auditorium with “two words: Christian McBride.” The Thursday evening concert (Sept.10) provoked an electric buzz befitting the significance of the occasion, the first concert of the fall season.
SF Electronic Music Festival Celebrates 25 Years With a Diverse Roster of Artists
Pamela Z with one of her inventions, a wearable sensor | Credit: Goran Vejvoda As the 25th San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF) approaches, one of its founders, the artist Pamela Z, recalled what has happened since the first festival, held in 2000 at the now-defunct CELLSpace: “We have continued to mount the festival in various San Francisco arts venues every year, without fail, except during the two years of pandemic lockdown.
13 Bay Area Opera Companies Unite for “Opera Day in the Bay”
Redwood Park | Credit: Douglas Friedman While headlines and concern now are focused on the labor conflict between SF Opera and the SF Opera Orchestra, there is a flurry of other opera-related activities in the Bay Area. On top is an unprecedented celebration of the genre by 13 Bay Area opera companies. They will unite for Opera Day in the Bay, a free concert on Sept. 20, beginning at 1 p.m., in Redwood Park at the base of the Transamerica Pyramid Center, 545 Sansome St., San Francisco.
Chanticleer's Machaut Project Opens a Window to the Medieval World
The singers of Chanticleer in The Machaut Project | Credit: Scott Wall Chanticleer has always worn its heart on its sleeve, bringing out the emotions latent in any song, be it by John Dowland or Schubert or Dolly Parton. And that’s true of the men’s chorus’ newest program, a spectacular performance of music by the 14th-century composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut, which is now playing in San Francisco.
With Don Giovanni , Opera San José Completes the Mozart-Da Ponte Trilogy
Kenneth Kellogg as Commendatore, left, and Wm. Clay Thompson as Don Giovanni in Opera San José's 2026 production of Don Giovanni at the California Theatre. | Credit: Dave Lepori Opera San José has run the gamut of the great Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy. The company opened its 2022 season with Le nozze di Figaro and its 2025 season with Così fan tutte.
Long Beach Opera Set to Launch 2026-2027 Season
Anna Schubert in Kate Soper's Ipsa Dixit at Long Beach Opera, 2024 | Credit: Jason Al-Taan Long Beach Opera has always been an experimental company. Comfortable with site-specific production and out-there material, they scored a hit with the premiere of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Central Park Five (2019) and have recently released the recording from that performance. Their just-announced 2026-2027 season is as unique and risky as ever.
Complications in Sue Makes Opera Relevant and Revelatory
Justin Vivian Bond as Sue in Opera Philadelphia’s Complications in Sue at the Academy of Music. | Credit: Steven Pisano Opera Philadelphia was in the last weeks of being able to pay its employees when countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo took over in 2024. The story of Opera Philadelphia’s metamorphosis should be familiar to all opera lovers by now.
At 98, Thea Musgrave Gets Her San Francisco Mainstage Debut
Heidi Stober as Mary, Queen of Scots | Credit: Ellie Kurttz Mary, Queen of Scots is back. Thea Musgrave’s 1977 opera received its U.S. premiere at Virginia Opera in March 1978 and its West Coast premiere almost exactly a year later at Spring Opera Theater, an affiliate of San Francisco Opera, at the Curran Theatre. This month, San Francisco Opera revives Mary, in a co-production with English National Opera, directed and designed by Musgrave’s fellow Scot, Stewart Laing.