My Bay Area Falls Arts Preview (Next Three Weeks)

In San Francisco, tradition has it that the fall arts season begins with the gala opening nights of the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera. This year, the double-header season-opening performances are Sept. 3, with superstar soprano Audra McDonald performing with the symphony at Davies Symphony Hall, and three nights later, on Sept. 6, with the opera Mephistopheles (music and libretto by Arrigo Boito), starring Ramón Vargas, Patricia Racette, and Ildar Abdrazakov, at the War Memoria...