by Eugénie Fontugne | 13-07-2026 | Agenda, Music night outOperaorchestraSF Symphonysummer with the SF symphony
This week-end, Nicolas Ellis will conduct a Shakespeare-inspired program featuring Mendelssohn’s magical music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tchaikovsky’s impassioned Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture. In between, violinist Geneva Lewis will... 
by MerciSF | 4-02-2026 | Agenda, Music, News, See All, Theater French American artistsLa Belle et la BeteOperaperforming artsPhilip Glass
The Franco-American mezzo-soprano opera singer Sophie Delphis will take the stage in La Belle et la Bête, Philip Glass’s opera, in Opera Parallèle’s distinctive production, presented for two performances in Berkeley. She performs the double role of Félicie / Adélaïde,... 
by MerciSF | 8-11-2024 | Agenda, Music, Theater BaroqueFrench artistGoing OutOpera
Under the creative direction of Céline Ricci, San Francisco’s Ars Minerva brings back La Flora, a Baroque opera with a unique history, to the stage at ODC on November 15, 16, and 17, 2024. Originally commissioned for composer Antonio Sartorio (1630–1680), who passed... 
by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Music Carmen BizetOperaOpera de Paris
“Carmen will never surrender, born free, free will she die”cries Bizet’s heroine to Don José at the end of the opera. This irrepressible freedom, coupled with a need to live ever more intensely on a knife-edge, is present in Calixto Bieito’s production as in no other.... 
by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Music, See All OperaParis OperaStreaming
Could there be a greater homage to the inventor of magic realism in literature than to make him the principal character of an opera in which all resemblance to reality is abolished in favour of an imaginary world with its own rules? In this work by Offenbach,... 
by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Music OperaParis Opera
In creating this ebullient opera buffa, Rossini captured all the fiery spirit of the comedy by Beaumarchais that inspired it. A native of Venice, birthplace of commedia dell’arte, Damiano Michieletto is highly sensitive to the burlesque vein in Rossini’s music. He...
