Last week we scaled the heights of the highest vocal range, the soprano. Today, let's take one step down the vocal ladder. In the opera house, we tend to call them mezzo-sopranos, but there are many ...

The San Francisco Bay Area is a hotbed of culture, and is no stranger to the art of opera. With several long-standing opera companies, Bay Area residents and visitors alike have numerous spots to ...

Though they ultimately created one of Palo Alto’s most enduring cultural institutions, West Bay Opera founders Henry and Maria Holt began their immersion in classical music nearly 6,000 miles from the ...

It started 12 years ago, when California Pizza Kitchen opened at Stanford Shopping Center. Then came Yucca De Lac and The Melt. And in the last two years alone, more than five eateries opened in a ...

Upper Manhattan is getting dramatized in unprecedented fashion. “Alto Manhattan,” which will be the first-ever Spanish-language soap opera to be filmed primarily in New York City, follows Emily ...