The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

As an addition to its summer festival, West Edge Opera headed over to the Wattis Theater at SFMOMA to present a preview concert, minimally ...

The third & final opera of the 2026 West Edge Opera Festival was American Apollo , a new opera with music by Damian Geter to a libretto...

Several years ago, coming out of the pandemic, Opera Parallèle presented Philip Glass's operatic take on Cocteau's magical fairy-ta...

I was in a packed Opera House for the third performance of San Francisco Opera 's world-premiere run of The Monkey King , a kaleidoscopi...

Last week I went to the second production of San Francisco Opera 's season, Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie & Terrence McNally, bas...

I went to all three operas at this year's West Edge Opera festival, seeing each one twice. First up is Dolores , centered on labor lead...

(Catching up on last June's offerings at San Francisco Opera, part 3. . . .) I was at San Francisco Opera for the American premiere of ...

Last Saturday night, I was at the Opera House for the west coast premiere of The Handmaid's Tale , with music by Poul Ruders & libre...

I was at the San Francisco Opera 's second performance of Omar , the new & recently Pulitzer-Prize winning opera by Rhiannon Giddens...