Entries sought for High School Visual Arts competition. The Orinda Arts Council’s 12th annual High School Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition, which will feature a wideranging collection of Lamorinda and Acalanes Union High School District student art, opens in the Orinda Library Gallery Saturday, Feb. 28. The competition is open to all 9th through 12th grade students living in Lamorinda and attending public or private high schools in Orinda, Lafayette or Moraga and to all students who attend any of the four AUSD high schools — Acalanes, Campolindo, Las Lomas and Miramonte, regardless of where the student lives.

“Jenufa,” June 14, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco: For years, Karita Mattila owned the title role of Janáček’s opera; in this summer’s revival, she made her staged role debut as Jenufa’s stern elder, Kostelnička, Her commanding performance — brilliantly sung and searingly dramatic — was one of the year’s unforgettable highlights, “Powder Her Face,” July 31, Oakland’s Abandoned Train Station: West Edge Opera’s three-opera summer season included Janáček’s “Cunning Little Vixen” and Handel’s “Agrippina,” but it was the enterprising company’s ballerina print ballet studio decor wall hanging art in lilac girls room wall decor ballerina art poster kids room wall art gift production of “Powder Her Face” that scored the biggest hit, Conducted by Mary Chun and sung by a top-notch cast, Thomas Adès’s sensational opera about a sex-crazed British duchess had opera lovers talking for weeks..

Therapeutic Yoga: Sundays, 3-4 p.m. Joan Pisani Community Center, 19655 Allendale Ave., Saratoga. Free. RSVP is required to tinyurl.com/saratogaclass. Pranic Healing: Choa Kok Sui leads the weekly classes. Sundays, 2-3 p.m. Joan Pisani Community Center, 19655 Allendale Ave., Saratoga. RSVP is required to tinyurl.com/saratogaclass. West Bay Opera Season Overview: San Jose Opera Guild hosts a presentation by general director José Luis Moscovich, along with West Bay singers. Sept. 25, 10 a.m. Jewish Community Center, 14855 Oka Road, Los Gatos. Guild members free/non-members $10 at the door.

Music at Kohl Mansion, Sundays, Oct, 12 through May 3, Oct, 12: St, Petersburg Piano Quartet, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Nov, 16 Escher String Quartet, Haydn, Shostakovich, Dvorák, Dec, 14: Kohl Mansion 100th Anniversary Concert, John Santos Sextet & V-Note Ensemble, Dec, 21: Musica Pacifica — A Baroque Holiday, Rameau, Scarlatti, Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann, Handel, Boismortier, Jan, 11: Musicians of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Mozart, Shinji Eshima, Erich Korngold, Feb, 22: Horszowski Trio, Saint-Saëns, Joan Tower, Schumann, March 22: Classical Jam, Roussel, E, Dohnányi, Handel-Halvorsen, Glass, J.S, Bach, April 12: Borromeo String Quartet, Beethoven, Shostakovich, May 3: Alexander String Quartet, Mozart, Brahms, Heggie, Kohl Mansion, 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, ballerina print ballet studio decor wall hanging art in lilac girls room wall decor ballerina art poster kids room wall art gift $15-$48, www.musicatkohl.org or 650-762-1130..

Ben’s sojourn is the more interesting, reflecting the way even a much-loved relative can radically affect that delicate detente that families negotiate to make their coexistence possible and, in less functional times, bearable. Tomei is a standout as wife, mother, novelist and now caretaker — Kate’s worry lines get deeper, her patience thinner day by day. Between George and Ben, the issues are more fundamental. The difficulties of sleeping alone after nearly 40 years together, the bittersweetness each time they meet and the ways in which both try to cope. None of it is revolutionary. But in the hands of two of the craft’s best, the most ordinary of moments become illuminating, penetrating.