Sierra Madre Playhouse will present HAUNTED, a one-act dance opera with music by Paul Salerni and libretto by former California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia, featuring baritone Rod Gilfrey and three dancers.
The Sydney Chamber Choir will present Carl Orff's iconic CARMINA BURANA on March 22 at City Recital Hall. This performance marks the beginning of their 2026 season.
Sydney's music scene is set to be invigorated with a powerful performance of CARMINA BURANA this March. The concert, featuring a full orchestra and choir, promises a compelling interpretation of Carl Orff's iconic score.
Sydney Chamber Choir will present Carl Orff's iconic Carmina Burana at City Recital Hall, featuring a unique arrangement for two pianos and percussion.
Jake Heggie will join SFCM's composition faculty in Fall, 2025. Heggie is well known for creating ten operas during his long career including, Moby Dick, Great Scott, and Dead Man Walking.
Concord Women’s Chorus will present the holiday season concert “The Harper’s Song: A Ceremony of Carols.' The performance is conducted by CWC Artistic Director Jane Ring Frank, accompanied by Daniel Goldsmith, piano, and Carrie Kourkoumelis, harp.
There are few things more glorious than over 300 voices raised in perfect harmony. Since 1978 the SFGMC has been a voice for uplifting the LGBTQIA+ community through times of great sorrow and joy. Persevering in the ugly face of intolerance and persecution, the chorus inspired a worldwide choral movement. This summer, they will tour the Midwest where antigay legislation is being enacted. Tuesday’s concert, a high note in their 46th season titled a “Season of Love”, turned Davies Hall into a cathedral, a scared space of inclusion, reverence, and light.
It’s easy to understand why Neal Goren, founder and artistic director of Catapult Opera, was immediately taken with LA VILLE MORTE. (His program notes say, “Upon receiving the piano-vocal score, I found myself sighing in ecstasy…”) First, the name Nadia Boulanger is magic in 20th century music—in music history in general, for that matter—though not for her own compositions.
The legendary opera La Ville morte, the only opera ever composed by leading music educator and conductor Nadia Boulanger, in collaboration with her mentor Raoul Pugno, will be given its Greek premiere –and only its third ever production worldwide– on the GNO Alternative Stage, at the SNFCC.
The Greek National Opera (GNO) presents the Greek premiere of La Ville morte (The Dead City), the only opera composed by Nadia Boulanger—one of the most important conductors and music educators, and mentor to some of the greatest music figures of the 20th century—in collaboration with her mentor Raoul Pugno, to a libretto by Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Catapult Opera's production of Nadia Boulanger's La Ville Morte will mark the first time New York audiences will get to experience the sole opera from “the most renowned composition teacher of the 20th century — if not of all musical history” (The New York Times).
Get ready for an exciting 2024 season at NYU Skirball, featuring acclaimed actress Ruth Negga and a highly anticipated premiere from renowned choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Explore the lineup and mark your calendars for this unforgettable season of performances.
En el marco de las celebraciones por el 61 Aniversario de las Relaciones México-Corea, este jueves en el Auditorio Blas Galindo del Centro Nacional de las Artes (Cenart) se realizó el concierto Noche de Gala México-Corea, donde más de 100 músicos y cantantes fueron guiados por la directora de orquesta Jeong-Rim Lee, destacada profesora de la Escuela Superior de Música (ESM).
Ragazzi Boys Chorus makes its triumphant return to the stage with its first in-person concert in San Francisco in almost two years, Mysteries and Miracles. Featuring vaccinated singers from Ragazzi's Young Men's Ensemble, Concert Group, and Choral Scholars, this holiday concert will include treasured yuletide gems and contemporary festive pieces to celebrate the season.
Ahead of its 10th anniversary season, the Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco (YWCP) announced today that Founding Director Susan McMane will retire in July 2022. At the end of the forthcoming season, Dr. McMane will conduct her final concerts with the Young Women's Chorus in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 23, 2022, and in Paris on Saturday, July 3, 2022.
The Bard Music Festival returns for its 31st season this August, with a rare and intensive two-week exploration of “Nadia Boulanger and Her World.” In twelve themed concert programs, performed live with limited in-person audiences, Bard examines Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), the pioneering Parisian pedagogue, composer, conductor, pianist, organist and indomitable personality who shaped more than a generation of American musicians.
San Francisco Opera's Department of Diversity, Equity and Community (DEC) will present For the Love of Opera, a series of conversations about experiences of love on the lyric stage, during February and a Women's History Month celebration throughout March.