The memory was delicious: Women withholding sex to end a war. Surely, thought composer Mark Adamo, an opera lurked in that idea. Fresh from the success of Little Women, which Houston Grand Opera ...

Mark Adamo, already known to area music-lovers from Fort Worth Opera productions of his Little Women in 2005 and Lysistrata in 2012, will become a lot more familiar in these parts in December with the ...

The battered but brave Bay Area arts community is finally putting the pandemic into the rear view mirror. Live classical and contemporary music concerts are back big time, moving on with encouraging ...

Though Jason Adamo’s latest EP, Sunflower, is bookended by two versions of the same song, “Purple Sky,” and though I’ve listened to both versions no less than 10 times each, I still couldn’t tell you ...

Those with an affinity for not-so-Southern country and not-too-edgy rock might look for a stylistic space that exists somewhere between George Strait and Jason Mraz — the land of Hootie, Dave Matthews ...

"The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," the densely rhapsodic new opera by composer and librettist Mark Adamo that had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Wednesday night, burns with the fervor ...

The American composer began his career at the top, with the 1998 première of his first and most famous opera, “Little Women.” Nearly twenty years later, this concert at National Sawdust takes the ...

Jazz and the spoken word have always had a symbiotic relationship. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti pioneered the beat poet landscape of the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. But what of modern ...

Willa Rae Adamo has always been drawn to vibrant personalities and a great story, and that's something that comes through in her songs. The singer-songwriter has come to appreciate that there has to ...