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★ Our picks
A few concerts we’d go to this week, and why.
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Thu 7:30 PM
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Manon
Opera house
Favourites
Cheap seats
War Memorial Opera House, Civic Center, San Francisco
Opening night of Massenet's Manon, with Pene Pati as Des Grieux opposite Amina Edris, conducted
by Eun Sun Kim.
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Sun 4:00 PM
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Inheritance
Concert hall
Some of each
Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, Lake Merritt, Oakland
Kent Nagano leads Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, First Piano Concerto with Mari Kodama and
Reformation Symphony, plus Alex Nante's world premiere.
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Free and casual
Free concerts, student recitals, open rehearsals and sing-alongs.
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Thu 5:30 PM
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Choral Evensong
Concert hall
Free
Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco
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Fri 7:30 PM
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Carlisle Floyd Voice Department Recital
Student recital
Barbro Osher Recital Hall, SF Conservatory of Music, Civic Center, San Francisco
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Sun 4:00 PM
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Choral Evensong
Concert hall
Free
Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco
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Wed 12:30 PM
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Noon Concert: Violin Students of Robin Sharp
Up close
Student recital
Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center, Stanford
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Wed 7:30 PM
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String Showcase
Student recital
Barbro Osher Recital Hall, SF Conservatory of Music, Civic Center, San Francisco
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Day by day
Thursday, October 15
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5:30 PM
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Choral Evensong
Concert hall
Free
Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco
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7:30 PM
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Manon
Opera house
Favourites
Cheap seats
War Memorial Opera House, Civic Center, San Francisco
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7:30 PM
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Batiashvili, Capuçon and Thibaudet
Concert hall
Favourites
Deals for students
Davies Symphony Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco
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Friday, October 16
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7:30 PM
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Defiance
Concert hall
Some of each
Ticketed
Paramount Theatre, Oakland, Uptown, Oakland
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7:30 PM
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Dvořák Symphony No. 8
Concert hall
Some of each
Deals for students
Davies Symphony Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco
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7:30 PM
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Carlisle Floyd Voice Department Recital
Student recital
Barbro Osher Recital Hall, SF Conservatory of Music, Civic Center, San Francisco
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8:00 PM
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Kloetzel Chapman Duo: The Women of Note Project
Concert hall
Adventurous
Old First Presbyterian Church, Nob Hill, San Francisco
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Saturday, October 17
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7:30 PM
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Dvořák Symphony No. 8
Concert hall
Some of each
Deals for students
Davies Symphony Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco
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Sunday, October 18
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2:00 PM
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Manon
Opera house
Favourites
Cheap seats
War Memorial Opera House, Civic Center, San Francisco
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2:00 PM
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Dvořák Symphony No. 8
Concert hall
Some of each
Deals for students
Davies Symphony Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco
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3:00 PM
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Ben Bliss, tenor, and Christopher Allen, piano
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley campus, Berkeley
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4:00 PM
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Inheritance
Concert hall
Some of each
Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, Lake Merritt, Oakland
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4:00 PM
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Choral Evensong
Concert hall
Free
Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco
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5:00 PM
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Faculty Recital: David Conte, Composition
Up close
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, SF Conservatory of Music, Civic Center, San Francisco
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Tuesday, October 20
Wednesday, October 21
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12:30 PM
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Noon Concert: Violin Students of Robin Sharp
Up close
Student recital
Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center, Stanford
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7:30 PM
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Manon
Opera house
Favourites
Cheap seats
War Memorial Opera House, Civic Center, San Francisco
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7:30 PM
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String Showcase
Student recital
Barbro Osher Recital Hall, SF Conservatory of Music, Civic Center, San Francisco
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Watch and listen from anywhere
Livestreams, radio broadcasts, competitions and opera in cinemas. Times are Pacific. Links go to the
official pages.
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Oct 9 – 22
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Wieniawski Violin Competition: all rounds through the final
Competition
Free
Free live stream on the Wieniawski Society YouTube channel (youtube.com/@WieniawskiSociety);
also on The Violin Channel, medici.tv and Amadeus.tv
One of the oldest violin competitions (first held in 1935), held every five years; all the
auditions are broadcast, ending with the final on Oct 22.
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Thu 4:30 PM PT
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Bella Hristova and Gloria Chien: Stravinsky, Messiaen and Prokofiev
Livestream
Free
Free livestream from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
(chambermusicsociety.org)
A violin-and-piano recital with a world premiere and Prokofiev's dark First Violin
Sonata.
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Fri 10:00 AM PT
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Garsington Opera's La traviata on OperaVision
Livestream
Recorded
Free
OperaVision (operavision.eu) and its YouTube channel. Available until 16 April 2027
A summer 2026 production from the English country-house festival, with the Philharmonia in the
pit.
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Sat 10:00 AM PT
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The Met: Live in HD: Verdi's Macbeth
In cinemas
Live in cinemas across the US (find one on metopera.org); US encore screenings Wed Oct 21
(times vary by cinema). Tickets vary by cinema. US encore screenings on Wednesday, Oct 21,
2026
A new Met production shown live, with Lise Davidsen singing Lady Macbeth and Nézet-Séguin
conducting.
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Sat 5:00 PM PT
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Fountains and Pines of Rome with the Detroit Symphony and Jader Bignamini
Livestream
Free
Free on YouTube Live (youtube.com/@detroitsymphony/streams), Facebook Live and Live from
Orchestra Hall (livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv)
Respighi's two Roman tone poems are big orchestral showpieces, and the program also has a
rarely heard piano concerto by Leokadiya Kashperova.
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Sat 5:00 PM PT
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Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods in Carlos Simon's Double Concerto
Radio
Free
CRB Classical 99.5 FM Boston and classicalwcrb.org. Encore broadcast Monday at 8 PM; the page
says episodes are available on demand
It is a new double concerto by the BSO's composer chair, Carlos Simon, played by Hilary Hahn
and Seth Parker Woods.
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Sat 5:30 PM PT
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St. Louis Symphony: Kristiina Poska conducts Mozart and Schumann's 'Rhenish'
Radio
Free
90.7 KWMU St. Louis Public Radio and Classic 107.3 (both stream online)
Broadcast live from the concert, including a U.S. premiere by the Estonian composer
Krigul.
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Sun 1:00 PM PT
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Dalia Stasevska conducts Revueltas and Dvořák's 'New World' Symphony
Radio
Recorded
Free
WCLV 90.3 FM Cleveland and ideastream.org/wclv (recorded Nov 22, 2025)
Revueltas's colorful Mexican score, built from music he wrote for a film, is paired with
Dvořák's best-known symphony.
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Sun 4:00 PM PT
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Chicago Symphony: Esa-Pekka Salonen and Iveta Apkalna
Radio
Recorded
Free
WFMT 98.7 FM Chicago and wfmt.com (CSO Radio Broadcast Series)
Salonen conducts his own organ concerto with Iveta Apkalna, between Strauss's Don Juan and
Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.
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Thu Oct 22
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Czerny and Brahms for horn, clarinet and strings at CMS
Livestream
Free
Free livestream from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
(chambermusicsociety.org)
A rarely played Czerny serenade alongside Brahms's Horn Trio, with the horn player Radovan
Vlatković.
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