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Jahja Ling and the SDS gave a luminous performance of Mahler's Sixth, clearly showing his deep love for the composer.

The San Diego Symphony presented a glittering holiday gift to audiences with its final Jacobs Masterworks program of 2015

To celebrate another landmark season, San Diego Symphony Music Director Jahja Ling brought forth a multifaceted program featuring star Chinese pianist Yuja Wang.

With an uncertainly looming, the San Diego community rallied behind its beloved opera company to rescue, resuscitate and revamp while celebrating 50 years of commitment to the arts.

Zukerman, master of the violin, viola and baton, displayed his many creative capabilities with panache this weekend with the San Diego Symphony.

San Diego’s Copley Symphony Hall resounded with the noble key of C major via Mozart and Schubert. 

The European continent met the British Isles in this weekend’s San Diego Symphony program. 

Music Director Jahja Ling waited until more than a decade of his tenure with San Diego Symphony had passed before programming Mahler’s Symphony no. 7, the first in the orchestra's 103-year history.

There’s always a reason to celebrate Sibelius. The addition of French works to San Diego Symphony’s offerings this weekend provided a panoply of tastes to the musical palate. 

The much-anticipated San Diego Symphony OPUS event commemorated the Greatest Generation with Maestro Jahja Ling programming works of Leonard Bernstein and Rachmaninoff, composers active during that generation’s era, to bookend excerpts from Bizet’s ever-popular L’Arlésienne Suites. 

Coupled with its exquisite landscape, the mystery and legend that permeate Scotland’s atmosphere and history have inspired poets, artists and composers to capture its magic and distinctive folklore in evocative works of art. 

If Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein were to launch into orbit, he would far outdistance the Soyuz Space Station.

One of the most difficult transitions in the orchestral world is that of concertmaster, or leader, to concerto soloist. In last night’s concert, San Diego Symphony concertmaster Jeff Thayer proved himself up to that task, in one of the violin repertoire’s most demanding works Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto no. 2.

Audience members were gifted with a rare treat Saturday night when Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Laureate Christoph von Dohnányi appeared as guest conductor with the San Diego Symphony.

Matthew Richard Martinez reviews San Diego Opera's season-closing production of Massenet's Don Quixote starring Ferruccio Furlanetto.

Love and death, jealousy and revenge, assassination and intrigue, culminating in a dazzle of song, dance, and a shower of sparkling gold: San Diego's A Masked Ball has it all.

Playing hard to get has its rewards. At least that's what Donizetti tells us in The Elixir of Love that gives a charming opera a fresh take. 

San Diego Opera's season opening Pagliacci focused squarely on the character of Tonio, in Andrew Sinclair's intriguing vision for this verismo classic. But the vocal performances were lacking. A director can only do so much.

As this year draws to a close, musicians and audiences have one last chance to celebrate the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt (1811-1886). The program this afternoon featured a couple of less-familiar orchestral pieces as well as the First and Second Piano Concerti. (Liszt’s orchestral works are infrequently performed, these ones especially so.