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Nov 27, 2024 · Editor's note: This story has been updated with concerts for the 2024 season. Every year around December, the same set of cultural rituals gets repeated, depending on …

Oct 20, 2024 · Review: S.F. Opera taps into the transcendent power of ‘Tristan and Isolde’ Richard Wagner’s epic of love and death comes to glorious life in a dramatically sung …

Mar 2, 2024 · Ahead of this year’s 96th Academy Awards, I’d like to revisit one of my favorite moments in the show’s history that is often ranked as one of its biggest flops.It’s a musical …

Nov 5, 2024 · Andrea Bocelli on his new album, film and 30 years of making music: ‘I like to think to the future’ Bocelli says that his first day onstage feels like yesterday, and that he is grateful …

Nov 19, 2024 · The marketing of “Wicked” has been so obnoxious for so long — since stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were everywhere at the Summer Olympics — that you …

Nov 18, 2024 · Every day, Connie Nielsen is reminded why she’s stayed in the Bay Area for more than two decades, and why she has no plans to leave. “I look out the window, there’s a view of …

Jan 19, 2024 · Stasevska, the Ukrainian-born conductor who leads the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in Finland, wasn’t originally supposed to be here at all. The program, which also featured the …

Dec 19, 2024 · ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ If more plays were this visionary, well-resourced and relevant, theater would be in a much better place in this country. Ben Power’s adaptation of …

Oct 18, 2024 · The Southern Reach Trilogy was a huge success for VanderMeer. But it also, and purposefully so, left many questions unanswered. That is where “Absolution” comes in: It acts …