Verdi’s
Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s
Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, written especially for this concert. This will be performed between two Brahms viola sonatas which were originally written for clarinet. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
Chronicle Staff May 3, 2021Updated: May 3, 2021, 7:20 am
Mugwumpin’s Black Baba struts down a scenic path in Cutting Ball Theater’s “Phantasmagoria.” Photo: Julie Schuchard, Cutting Ball Theater
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Cutting Ball, Mugwumpin and Bay Area Theatre Cypher team up for Lewis Carroll collage
Among the few theatrical upsides of the pandemic is the emergence of thrilling multi-troupe collaborations, as companies who were long on each other’s radar suddenly have more bandwidth to make partnerships happen.
The latest in this glorious list, “Phantasmagoria,” brings together two stalwarts of the experimental and avant-garde, Cutting Ball Theater and Mugwumpin, with a relative newbie, Bay Area Theatre Cypher, which combines theater and hip-hop.
Joshua Kosman April 15, 2021
Esa-Pekka Salonen (front) and members of the San Francisco Symphony perform Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music” as part of the SoundBox program “Patterns.” Photo: Kristen Loken
“In C,” Terry Riley’s landmark musical mosaic from 1964, was the first real minimalist piece, according to San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen. He makes the claim with plenty of emphasis and vocal italics, so you just know it has to be true.
But Salonen’s assertion comes midway through “Patterns,” a beguiling new online concert presented as part of the Symphony’s SoundBox series, and everything else in the hour-long program serves to complicate our understanding of this history in deeply pleasurable ways.
This week on Open Air, KALW’s radio magazine for the Bay Area Performing Arts in Times of Corona, we welcome back artists from The Marsh onto the virtual