Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment
SF Symphony Youth Orchestra begins 2024-25 season with new director Radu Paponiu, sax soloist Harry Jo
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Jo is a senior at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton who played piano as a 5-year-old, started studying violin at 8, and took up alto saxophone at 11.Arts & Entertainment
San Francisco Opera’s ‘Adler Fellows in Concert’ on Nov. 15 showcases next-generation singers
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The program prepares young artists to become opera singers, conductors, stage directors, vocal coaches and other performing arts professionals and educators.Arts & Entertainment
Step Afrika! dancers tell ‘Migration’ story set to iconic Jacob Lawrence artworks
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Presented by Cal Performances at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on November 2-3.Arts & Entertainment
‘Handmaid’s Tale’ at SF Opera raises resonant, hot-button issues
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Based on Margaret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel about women forced into childbearing servitude, the production runs from Sept. 14-Oct.Arts & Entertainment
Multimedia artist Edward Mills invites guests to play with ‘The Cube’
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The sculpture is composed of 1,000 handmade wooden blocks that, starting Aug. 9, will morph daily into new forms depending on who is interacting with it.Arts & Entertainment
San Francisco Opera stages American premiere of Saariaho’s intense ‘Innocence’
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A contemporary Scandinavian look and sound, plus timely 21st-century themes comprise Saariaho’s rich new opus.Arts & Entertainment
SF Ballet School Spring Festival boasts premieres by young choreographers
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May 22-24, students will dance classic and new works, both pieces they made, and one made under the company’s Creation House initiative.Arts & Entertainment
Elvis in the building in Smuin Ballet premiere of ‘Tupelo Tornado’
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Choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is known for story ballets about famous people.Arts & Entertainment
