{"id":419339,"date":"2026-07-31T11:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419339\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:11:41","slug":"san-francisco-gives-englishman-five-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419339\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco gives Englishman five more years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>July 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Opera board has given general director Matthew Shilvock five more years, taking him to 2031.<\/p>\n<p>The new contract starts August 1, 2026, which is cutting it a bit fine. Shilvock, 50, has been in the job for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>He says:\u00a0 \u2018It is an extraordinary honor to continue serving a company with such a storied legacy and such boundless possibility. San Francisco Opera is an incredible creative community, with company members and patrons passionately committed to art that helps us understand the world and our place in it. We\u2019re entering an era of vital energy for the theatrical arts, celebrating the power of live, human storytelling, and embracing the possibilities of new technologies. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to continue working as part of this remarkable company of extraordinarily talented people as we shape the future together.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Shilvock, from Kidderminster, read music at Christ Church, Oxford, writing his thesis on Jean Baptiste Lully. He went on to study public administration at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht July 31, 2026 The San Francisco Opera board has given general director Matthew Shilvock five more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-419339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}