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The West Bay Opera Tosca has it all: a stellar orchestra, musical direction, impressive performances by the principals, and a production that belies the size of the company.

In the centennial year of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, comes the new, perplexing and engaging dance/theater piece A Rite.

Two unfamiliar works paired with an old standby featured outstanding singing and a somewhat typical audience reaction to newness.

In Verdi’s birth year, the Chicago Symphony celebrated the right way, led by Riccardo Muti, one of the greatest of the composer’s champions.

Yulan, perhaps best described as a Chinese-style Cirque du Soleil, is a brilliantly colored, imaginative extravaganza starring the Dalian Acrobatic Troupe.

In an ongoing news item on an investigation underway, the Peninsula Symphony that reports its bank accounts have been cleaned out of approximately a half million dollars.

Greatly preferring performing live to recording, pianist András Schiff reflects on his love of Bach and Beethoven and discusses pedaling, music memory, and historical performance.

Verdi wrote 23 operas, of which about 10 are consistently among the most-performed operas every year. So a short playlist like this will hardly do justice to the composer’s achievement. But it will get you started.

In the South Bay, Indian classical music is blooming through the efforts of Indian Classic Music and Arts foundation.