{"id":446495,"date":"2026-08-28T21:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446495\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:16:28","slug":"houston-grabs-top-exec-from-san-francisco-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446495\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston grabs top exec from San Francisco Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>August 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Houston Grand Opera has recruited John Churchwell as Head of Music Staff, a key position he has held for 14 years at San Francisco Opera. <\/p>\n<p>Churchwell started work this week, saying: \u2018I\u2019m honored to be joining HGO at such an exciting moment\u2026 Across the field, we have watched HGO continue to evolve and innovate\u2014reaching new audiences, investing in exceptional artists, and pursuing an ambitious artistic vision. There is a tremendous sense of possibility in Houston, and the opportunity to contribute to this company\u2019s future is incredibly meaningful to me. I\u2019m eager to work alongside Khori Dastoor, James Gaffigan, and the entire HGO team, and to bring everything I have to the work ahead.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>image: Cory Weaver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht August 28, 2026 Houston Grand Opera has recruited John Churchwell as Head of Music Staff, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-446495","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\/446495","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=446495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}