Music News

Riccardo Chailly, know to Bay Area music lovers as the man who conducted the San Francisco Opera's famed 1977 Turandot premiere , has been appointed music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

Remembering Joseph Scafidi, his accomplishments with the San Francisco Symphony, and his impact on the city.

Oakland Symphony's "new name" is just the good, old one, replaced for some years with the awkward but legally-financially necessary "OEBS."

After Les Troyens, the S.F. Opera Chorus is preparing for a new season with more opportunities to stand out.

The nominations are in. It's time to vote for your favorite venues, performances and performers of 2014-15.

A roundup is of the many gems of musical theater coming to the Bay Area this fall.

The orchestra's board ousted Executive Director Edmund Feingold last week, effective immediately.

The South American duo plays electro-folk and will perform on Aug. 20 at the PLACE in Oakland, with BOLO, and on Aug. 21 in the Elks Lodge in San Francisco, with Barrio Lindo.

String quartets often change personnel or just come to the end of the road, but San Francisco's Ives Quartet did something different.