{"id":467967,"date":"2026-09-18T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467967\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:14:16","slug":"just-in-san-francisco-settles-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467967\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in: San Francisco settles strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>September 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Late last night the San Francisco Opera reached agreement with its orchestra on a new four-year contract. Performances will resume with Verdi\u2019s Simon Boccanegra next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Young, the orchestra\u2019s associate principal oboist, said: \u2018We are heartened to have reached a tentative deal that provides a fair contract and stability.\u2019 SF Opera General Director Matthew Shilvock said: \u2018I am deeply grateful that we have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract\u2014one that addresses important structural changes while providing a fair agreement for our musicians.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Until now the starting pay rate was $118,000 for 24 weeks\u2019 work.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn\u2019t this have been sorted out before the season started?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht September 18, 2026 Late last night the San Francisco Opera reached agreement with its orchestra on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-467967","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\/467967","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=467967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}