This composer’s latest stage work, at San Francisco Opera, is his most straightforward, but also his least inspired. By Zachary Woolfe Though superbly cast, a staging of Mozart’s dark classic updated ...

Grammy-award winning Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley is a leading singer and dramatic interpreter of his generation, with acclaimed performances at the world’s major opera and concert venues and ...

Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in “Le Nozze di Figaro.” By Zachary Woolfe John Adams’s Shakespeare ...