Critics’ picks of other things to do on Gay Pride Week

There are plenty of things to do if you need to take a break from Pride Week activities.

Some of The Chronicle’s top culture experts — Aidin Vaziri, Rob Hurwitt, Joshua Kosman, Leba Hertz and Mick LaSalle — offer their best bets:

Pop Music Critic

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The cinematic studio project of Welsh producer Pete Lawrie-Winfield turns into a full-blown affair live, looping in hip-hop beats, atmospheric sound effects and sample dialogue from his favorite films. 9 p.m. Thursday, June 25. $12.

The electronic dance duo made up of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe — best known for relentless club staples like “Where’s Your Head At” and “Never Say Never” — continue their first U.S. tour in a decade with a DJ set in support of their latest album, “Junto.”

Bootsy Collins, the superstar bassist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, has played with everyone from James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic to Deee-Lite and Snoop Dogg.

Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” house band breaks out of the studio, bringing a wealth of experience to two decades of original material from its standout albums like “Things Fall Apart” and “The Tipping Point.”

Visual Arts, Dance, Movie Editor

More than 60 oil paintings and watercolors by the British artist most famous for his use of light and color in landscapes will be on view.

De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, S.F. www.deyoung.famsf.org.

Check out 48 artworks from 28 contemporary Chinese artists, including the famous such as Ai Weiwei, Zhang Huan and Huang Yong, and a new generation such as Liu Wei and Xu Zhen.

The title of this exhibit refers to a phrase in the Bible: “the day goes after the night,” (Genesis 1:5) at the time of creation.

The show includes 25 artists, scientists, and thinkers who look at contemporary art in historical, technological and cultural aspects.

There will be meet and greets, classes and, of course, performances by some of the best artists in the Bay Area and the nation.

“Fidelio”: Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony conclude both their three-week Beethoven Festival and their entire 2014-15 season with three concert performances of the opera.

The cast is headed by the great Swedish soprano Nina Stemme in the title role, with tenor Brandon Jovanovich as Florestan and Joélle Harvey, Nicholas Phan, Alan Held and Luca Pisaroni also appearing. 8 p.m. Thursday, June 25, and Friday, June 26; 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28.

“Two Women”: San Francisco Opera gives the world premiere production of composer Marco Tutino’s new opera based on the Alberto Moravia novel “La Ciociara,” which also spawned the 1960 film for which Sophia Loren won an Oscar.

Soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci stars as a single mother in the war-torn Italian countryside. 2 p.m. Sunday, June 28.

“The Marriage of Figaro”: San Francisco Opera presents Mozart’s timeless comedy of love and the class struggle, with Patrick Summers conducting a cast that includes Philippe Sly, Lisette Oropesa, Nadine Sierra and Luca Pisaroni. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 27.

“Dido and Aeneas”: Marin Baroque, under Music Director Daniel Canosa and Stage Director Marla Volovna, presents Purcell’s influential opera in an outdoor setting.

First Presbyterian Church, 72 Kensington Road, San Anselmo. $5-$35.

Movie Critic

There are lots of good movie-related activities going on during Pride weekend for visitors and residents to enjoy.

For the serious cineaste, there is a program of two early films by the silent master Abel Gance, “The Madness of Doctor Tube” (1915), and “The Deadly Gases” (1916), both dealing with the use of nerve gas in warfare, a hot topic during World War I. The program starts at 7 p.m. Friday, June 26, at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.

Or, if you want to split the difference between highbrow and lowbrow, try Orson Welles’ “Macbeth,” a gut-level entertainment from an unimpeachable source, playing at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 28, at the Smith Rafael Film Center in Mill Valley.

Steve Silver’s effervescent revue of send-ups and showstoppers in which Snow White looks for love in an onslaught of pop-culture lampoons and fantastic hats.

Kent Gash directs the West Coast premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s gospel-infused coming-of-age tale of adolescents caught in competition for lead tenor in a prestigious prep school’s choir.

The latest solo by Dan Hoyle (“Tings Dey Happen”), developed with director Charlie Varon, is a comic-empathic, “slow-tech movement” globe-trotting trip, peopled with inimitably memorable, quick-sketch characters in search of human contact in a digital age.

Noël Coward’s blithe, bubbly comedy about best friends who embark on an amours quest while their husbands are away, may not be a classic, but this TheatreWorks production is impeccably produced with a nimble cast and delightful leading ladies.

The Magic Bus Antenna Theater presents Chris Hardman’s magical mystery tour through the hippie ’60s and the Beat and Cold War past, on a bus ride through the city.