{"id":467561,"date":"2026-09-18T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467561\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T04:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:52:14","slug":"sf-opera-musicians-reach-tentative-agreement-ending-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467561\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Opera, Musicians Reach Tentative Agreement, Ending Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Performances are set to return to the Opera House on Thursday, Sept. 24, with Verdi\u2019s \u2018Simon Boccanegra.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sep 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 8:49 pm PT<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789707132_10_11765461962590_orig.jpg\"   width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"A beaux arts bulding with large columns, lit up at night\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The War Memorial Opera House on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">The strike at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/tag\/san-francisco-opera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Opera<\/a>, which resulted in five canceled performances and delayed the opening of the 2026\u201327 season, is set to come to an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">The San Francisco Opera Orchestra and San Francisco Opera jointly announced Thursday evening that a tentative agreement on a four-year contract has been reached. Pending ratification of the contract, performances will resume at the opera house when Verdi\u2019s Simon Boccanegra opens on Thursday, Sept. 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">\u201cWe cannot wait to return to the pit,\u201d said Gabe Young, the orchestra\u2019s associate principal oboist and chair of the musicians\u2019 negotiating committee, in <a to=\"https:\/\/www.sfopera.com\/press\/press-releases\/SFO-AFM-tentative-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfopera.com\/press\/press-releases\/SFO-AFM-tentative-agreement\/\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">\u201cWe are heartened to have reached a tentative deal that provides a fair contract and stability for the members of the orchestra,\u201d Young said, adding that \u201cwe want to thank the public and Opera patrons for their patience and support through what has been a challenging process for our musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/O2A6445.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13994022\"  \/>Amartuvshin Enkhbat in the title role, Aleksey Bogdanov as Paolo, Gabriel Natal-Baez as Pietro and members of the San Francisco Opera Chorus in Verdi\u2019s \u2018Simon Boccanegra.\u2019\u00a0(Cory Weaver\/San Francisco Opera)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">The San Francisco Opera Orchestra, represented by American Federation of Musicians Local 6, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/13993840\/sf-opera-opener-cancelled-opera-in-the-park-simon-boccanegra-union-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been on strike since Sept. 12<\/a>, when the season opener of Simon Boccanegra was canceled just a half hour before curtain. In the days since, a picket line and impromptu performances have taken place intermittently on the Opera House steps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Musicians also performed casually in Golden Gate Park on Sunday, Sept. 13, while technicians dismantled the stage for Opera in the Park, which was also canceled. San Francisco Opera also previously postponed its annual gala, originally set for Sept. 12, to Nov. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Performances are set to return to the Opera House on Thursday, Sept. 24, with Verdi\u2019s \u2018Simon Boccanegra.\u2019 Sep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-467561","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\/467561","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=467561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}