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Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Set for 12-Day West Coast Tour

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(Photo Credit: Jamie Pham) The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC) will launch a 12-day West Coast Tour on June 24, 2026. The ensemble is set to make stops in Vancouver, Seattle, Eugene, and San Francisco, as part of its year-long 40th anniversary season celebration. A total of 47 singers from three LACC ensembles, including the Chamber Singers and Concert Choir, {…}

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Ragazzi Boys Chorus Artistic & Executive Director Retire in 2027

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The Board of Directors of Ragazzi Boys Chorus has announced that Artistic and Executive Director Kent Jue will retire in August 2027. Jue has served as a choral conductor with the San Francisco Bay Area-based organization for more than 25 years, including eight years as artistic and executive director. During his tenure, Jue achieved three consecutive appearances at the American {…}

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Young People’s Chorus of New York City 2026 Review: Annual Gala Concert ‘In the Key of Love’ with Special Guest Joyce DiDonato

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(Photo: Joyce DiDonato by Chris Gonz / YPC by YPC press) The Young People’s Chorus (YPC) of New York City presented its annual Gala Concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City on Monday, March 16th to a sold-out audience. YPC Founder and Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez and Creative Director Elizabeth Núñez, were {…}

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San Francisco Opera 2019-20 Review: Billy Budd

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(Credit: Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera) Billy Budd, Foretopman, is the center of the conflict between evil and good, dark and light, vulnerable and powerful in Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece  “Billy Budd.” Picking this opera for the second night opening of San Francisco’s 97th season was a masterful choice. Everything – the music, drama, ethical conflict, suspenseful, challenging, rewarding – {…}

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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 2019 Review: L’Enfant et les Sortileges

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(Credit: Brandon Patoc) Fantasy. Enchantment. The Land of Dreams. So it was in San Francisco on the last day of June with Ravel’s “L’ Enfant et des Sortileges” at Davies Symphony Hall and the Annual San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. Just getting to the concert hall was a multi-colored, multi-media challenge, long-before the audience was presented with the anime-enhanced multi-chorus {…}

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San Francisco Opera 2017-18 Review – Girls of the Golden West: John Adams’ Latest Work Thrills In Act Two, Though Opera As Whole Lacks Cohesion

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What better way to celebrate America in the midst of moral decay? What better offering than a paean to the quest for independence, human dignity, the chance for actual freedom? Meet “Girls of the Golden West,” John Adam’s brand new opera, given its world premiere last night in San Francisco. A collaboration with the renowned artist and visionary, Peter Sellars, {…}

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San Francisco Opera 2017-18 Review – Turandot: A Real Fairy Tale in the Bay Area Led by Martina Serafin & Brian Jagde

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What are the stakes in “Turandot?” Calaf must answer a riddle or lose his head. Turandot must find out her suitor’s name or she will have to marry him. The people of Peking will have to help their icy princess to do just that or they will all be tortured and killed, in heartbeat, and in one fell swoop. No {…}

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San Francisco Opera 2017 Review – La Boheme: Uneven Cast Still Leads to Musical Magic

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It’s easy to love Puccini’s “La Bohème:” art, love, friends who romp and cavort, street scenes with lively genre action, and music to die for. Puccini’s classic thrills even non-opera lovers. “I could go every night,” we hear spectators say on leaving the War Memorial Opera House. Bringing to life again this Co-production with Houston Grand Opera, originally performed there {…}

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CD Review: Gordon Getty’s ‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’

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The score of Gordon Getty’s “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” breathes all the unpretentiously sweet melancholy of its many predecessors – from James Hilton’s 1933 novella of the same title to subsequent adaptations as, among others, radio plays and lavishly cast movie musicals. Yet it is not exactly the feel-good opera advertised in Pentatone’s press release; rather, the eponymous Mr. Chips – {…}