San Francisco Performances has announced “The Salon Series: The Women” as curated by tenor Nicholas Phan. As of this writing, casting for this series is mostly to be announced so the listing of these shows will include the voice types that are set to perform alongside Phan. First up, Phan will perform music by Jacquet de la Guerre and Maddalena {…}
San Francisco Performances is set to present its seventh PIVOT Festival, entitled “Ghost Stories.” “‘Ghost Stories’ is the PIVOT theme this year with a festival-full of inventive artist-thinkers who have created programs that explore the presence of the past and the impact of haunting memories on our hearts,” said Melanie Smith, the president of San Francisco Performances in a press {…}
San Francisco Performances has announced its 2021-22 season which will take place across four different venues in the San Francisco area. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on opera and vocal performances. Theo Bleckmann will perform songs from his new album “Elegy.” Performance Date: Oct. 20, 2021 Tenor Nicholas Phan will perform alongside Brooklyn Rider in {…}
San Francisco Performances has announced a number of changes to its February schedule due to COVID-19. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on the vocal performances. The recital series announced that Angelika Kirchschlager and Julius Drake recital on Feb. 20, 2021 has been canceled. Meanwhile, Lawrence Brownlee’s originally planned October 2020 recital has been postponed for {…}
The San Francisco Performances has announced changes to its 2020-21 season. The company revealed that Lawrence Brownlee and his Crooner’s program, originally scheduled for Oct. 2, has been postponed to 2021 due to restrictions on vocal performances. The recital was originally set to take place at the Herbst Theatre. Ticket holders will have the option of attending the new date; {…}
San Francisco Performances has announced its “Sanctuary Series,” which will stream for free online between June 25-July 16, 2020. The series will consist of four concert showcases. “Throughout many periods of challenge and change in human history, we have sought refuge and retreat. From cloisters and cathedrals to mountain tops and forests, we look for places to find sanctuary from {…}
(Image Provided by San Francisco Performances) San Francisco Performances is set to present “Words & Music” on Feb. 8, 2020 at the Herbst Theatre. The showcase, which kicks off bright and early at 10 a.m. local time, will feature music by Beethoven as performed by bass-baritone Dashon Burton and host and lecturer Robert Greenberg. “While known for the abundance of {…}
(Credit: Fay Fox) Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton was the flame that lit a rainy night in San Francisco this past week. With Kathleen Kelly at the piano, she sang an eclectic concert on the subject of love, her powerful and sumptuous voice bringing pleasure and beauty to her entire audience. It was glorious. Barton announced during the concert that she and {…}
San Francisco Performances has announced it will present the Brentano String Quartet in collaboration with soprano Dawn Upshaw. The concert is set to be presented on Dec. 4, at the Herbst Theatre. The performance will mark the sixth time the Brentano String Quartet performs with the concert series since its debut in March 2008. Meanwhile, Upshaw returns for her ninth {…}
Although written by two men, “Girls of the Golden West” is centered around the lives of the hardy women of Rich Bar (a mining camp in the Sierra mountains) and Downieville, California in the early 1850s. Throughout the Works and Process presentation at the Guggenheim on Sept. 21, John Adams (composer) and Peter Sellars (librettist/director) made it clear that this opera {…}
Some of the world’s greatest opera stars will appear at the San Francisco Performances in 2017-18 as part of the company’s vocal series. First up on the slate is Isabel Leonard who is slated to pay tribute to Leonard Bernstein as part of his Centennial celebration. The performance takes place on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, at the Herbst Theatre. Three {…}