{"id":463273,"date":"2026-09-14T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463273\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:15:25","slug":"23-minutes-before-curtain-up-san-francisco-opera-went-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463273\/","title":{"rendered":"23 minutes before curtain-up, San Francisco Opera went on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>September 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p>From San Francisco Classical Voice:<\/p>\n<p>SF Opera announced the season opener was canceled at 7:25 p.m. (Saturday) night. The strike announcement from the union came 23 minutes before the curtain was supposed to rise at 8 p.m. At the time, thousands awaited word from the negotiations \u2014 War Memorial has a seating capacity of 3,000, plus hundreds of performers in the cast, chorus, and orchestra among stagehands, ushers, and security\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Musicians of the SF Opera Orchestra released the following statement: \u2018It is with heavy hearts that we announce that the musicians of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra are on strike and we will not be performing at tonight\u2019s Opening Night. A strike is not something we take lightly, and we are deeply sorry to everyone who planned to spend this evening at the opera. We 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\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfcv.org\/articles\/music-news\/sf-opera-orchestra-strikes-fair-contract-opening-night-canceled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht September 14, 2026 From San Francisco Classical Voice: SF Opera announced the season opener was canceled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-463273","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\/463273","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=463273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}