Hector Berlioz’s “Romeo and Juliet,” which brought the San Francisco Symphony’s season to a richly dramatic conclusion in Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday, June 28, doesn’t fit easily into any of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Hege, Wichita Symphony conductor and musical director. A requiem mass is one of the hallmarks of many great composers, ...

Berlioz’s “Roméo et Juliette” is not an opera but an elaborate “dramatic symphony” that calls for contralto, tenor, and bass soloists as well as a chorus. It’s indulgent, rich, over 90 minutes long, ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony are making the most of their remaining concerts together. That much was clear on Friday, May 23, at Davies Symphony Hall, as the ...

It’s not too often you hear the words rap or hip-hop when describing an operatic orchestral piece. It’s even more rare that a film is created specifically for that piece of music and shown behind an ...

“Dramatic Fantasies” will lure Eureka Symphony’s audiences’ imaginations to heightened musical spheres on Friday and Saturday at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts in Eureka. Packed full of ...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a lush, romantic symphony, “Scheherazade,” in 1888, about a queen who escaped death by inventing the Arabian Nights stories that entertained the king. A 2012 exhibit in a ...