Over the last couple of decades, I have written eight posts about the summer-ending Merola Grand Finale at the San Francisco Opera House. ...

West Edge Opera's summer festival this year at Oakland's Scottish Rite Temple has been a great success overall, with the only disap...

A dazzling Egyptology show called Treasures of the Pharaohs opened at the deYoung Museum this week. There's one major problem for Sa...

Every opera fanatic has their own favorite Richard Strauss opera. Most choose Salome or Elektra , both short and intense, while others pre...

We walked to the main drag of Mexico City, Paseo de la Reforma, this morning and were astonished to find that tens of thousands of bicyclis...