{"id":463762,"date":"2026-09-14T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463762\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:44:11","slug":"musicians-strike-cancels-season-opening-of-the-san-francisco-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463762\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians strike cancels season opening of the San Francisco Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Opera&#8217;s unionized musicians made good on their threat not to perform without a new contract on opening night last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/culture\/sf-opera-musicians-strike\/article_57034303-f5a6-4e65-b8e6-4eaf4cf6944f.html\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The San Francisco Examiner reported<\/a> the orchestra announced that it was going on strike on social media &#8220;with heavy hearts.&#8221; The strike comes amid an impasse in negotiations and a month after the previous contract expired.<\/p>\n<p>The musicians said management&#8217;s offers were \u201cinsufficient,\u201d and that they had \u201cno choice but to stop work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The labor action prompted the cancellation of the season opening performance of Verdi&#8217;s &#8220;Simon Boccanegra&#8221; at the War Memorial Opera House.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the opera said that it faces a structural deficit of $15 million, despite strong sales and donations.<\/p>\n<p>Opera management initially proposed a 26% pay cut, which the union claimed would have returned orchestra members to 2015 wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco Opera&#8217;s unionized musicians made good on their threat not to perform without a new contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-463762","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\/463762","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=463762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}