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The nine-hour Chinese operatic epic "The Peony Pavilion" and director-choreographer Mark Morris' production of Purcell's "King Arthur" in its American premiere are among the highlights of Cal Performances' 2006-07 season. The season, which runs from...

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) THE ORLANDO CONSORT The Orlando Consort, the excellent British vocal ensemble, continues to blaze new trails in over-the-top record packaging. Following up on "Food, Wine and Song," the group's 2001 CD-cum-cookbook,...

Perhaps no real-life civic celebration ever resonated as grandly as the holidays of his childhood did in Charles Ives' memory. In the composer's "New England Holidays" Symphony, which concluded Thursday's concert by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San...

More often than not, singers who appear on the San Francisco Opera's Schwabacher Debut Recital Series struggle to adjust the scale of their singing to the performance space. Even moderately sized voices tend to resound, and it's a canny singer who can keep...

Thursday's potent concert by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony offered the latest installment in their nearly concluded series of Mahler recordings, in this case a full-voiced and emotionally urgent account of the Adagio from the composer's...

There's no law that says you have to make a beautiful sound to be a successful musical performer -- although it certainly helps. The venturesome young English violinist Daniel Hope put this issue to the test Tuesday night in an intriguing but not always...

Western art music and the Catholic Church go back a long way together, further back than written documents can attest. But the rich artistic legacy that's resulted isn't always an easy fit with the musical culture we inhabit today. Music written for...

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson has withdrawn from her performances with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony in Davies Symphony Hall next week and in New York's Carnegie Hall on April 20. The American mezzo-soprano, who was scheduled to sing...

Whatever you might think, it isn't easy being a bloodthirsty autocrat. The protagonist of "The Tyrant," the new monodrama by composer Paul Dresher and librettist Jim Lewis, may have an entire realm at his beck and call, but he's painfully aware that...

Mstislav Rostropovich and the San Francisco Symphony concluded their two-week celebration of the Shostakovich centenary with a journey into the bleak territory of the composer's later years. Thursday's concert in Davies Symphony Hall was not a thing of joy --...