{"id":462291,"date":"2026-09-13T05:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462291\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:14:13","slug":"sf-opera-opener-canceled-as-musicians-strike-opera-in-the-park-also-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462291\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Opera Opener Canceled as Musicians Strike; Opera in the Park Also Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A performance of \u2018Simon Boccanegra\u2019 was canceled at the final hour over failure to reach agreement on a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Sep 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 9:19 pm PT<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sfoperapit.jpg\"   width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Eun Sun Kim leads the San Francisco Opera orchestra in rehearsal for  Richard Strauss\u2019 \u2018Elektra\u2019 in 2026.\u00a0(Cory Weaver \/ SF Opera)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">San Francisco Opera\u2019s season opener \u2014 the Sept. 12 performance of Verdi\u2019s Simon Boccanegra \u2014 was canceled at the last minute on Saturday evening when the orchestra musicians went on strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">The popular Opera in the Park event, an annual performance in Golden Gate Park falling this year on Sept. 13, has also been canceled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">The strike had been threatened for weeks by the musicians union, should San Francisco Opera fail to offer what the musicians characterized as a fair contract. The previous contract expired on July 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">\u201cA strike is not something we take lightly, and we are deeply sorry to everyone who planned to spend this evening at the opera,\u201d the musicians said in a statement. \u201cWe have been clear throughout these negotiations that management\u2019s offers were insufficient, and that without a fair contract we would have no choice but to stop work. Management\u2019s insistence on cuts has left us no other option.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A performance of \u2018Simon Boccanegra\u2019 was canceled at the final hour over failure to reach agreement on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-462291","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\/462291","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=462291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}