The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

Annually since 2015, Ars Minerva , founded & led by Céline Ricci, has given us a revival of an opera not seen for centuries. This is obv...

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...

  East 14th Street, San Leandro, California

So we come, inevitably but somehow still surprisingly, to the end of another calendar year. As usual, most of this month's calendar has ...

  Oroshi ( Mountain Gust ) by Kino Satoshi, on view as part of New Japanese Clay at the Asian Art Museum

  steps, outside of Herbst Theater, San Francisco

  detail of Boatmen on the Missouri by George Caleb Bingham, now at the de Young Museum

  Winter branches

(from left to right: baritone Brian Mulligan, director Francesca Zambello, Music Director Eun Sun Kim, General Director Matthew Shilvock) Ye...

  Lovers in a Garden , a sixteenth-century stained glass work from the Netherlands, now at the Art Institute of Chicago