The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

  detail of Looking at Barney & Mark by Frank Bowling, currently at SFMOMA as part of the special exhibit   Frank Bowling: The New York...

  at Casa Peralta, San Leandro, California

  detail of Saint John the Evangelist Meditating the Gospel by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), currently on view at the Legion of ...

My third Sunday afternoon at West Edge Opera  was spent with Stravinsky's Le Rossignol ( The Nightingale ) & Schoenberg's Erwa...

The second opera I saw at the West Edge Opera summer festival was Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea , conducted by Adam Pearl &...

The West Edge Opera festival started for me with Cruzar la Cara de la Luna ( To Cross the Face of the Moon ), the mariachi opera composed ...

  Chinatown, San Francisco

Last Sunday there was an addition to West Edge Opera 's usual three-opera summer festival in the shape of a preview with orchestra of Do...

I was at SFMOMA yesterday, partly to wander but mostly to take another look at the gorgeous Frank Bowling exhibit & a first look at th...

September is usually considered the start of the performance season, & though the big guns of the SF Opera & SF Symphony are certain...