“Thanks to COVID,” streaming is now part of the opera experience, and SF Opera, which has a long and grand tradition of video recording and transmission, is now making centennial season performances available for $27.50. Rush tickets, another SF Opera tradition, also continue, allowing attendees to fill some of the most expensive orchestra seats. Īlso $10, a ticket for the 1932 grand opening of the War Memorial Opera House | Credit: San Francisco Opera Archives Subscriptions are priced from $178 to $3,248 single tickets range from $26 to $422, available at the SF Opera box office, by phone at (415) 864-3330 and online. 15 performance of Dialogues of the Carmelites, the orchestra is mostly filled, the balcony is mostly empty. 29 is similar, with even fewer balcony seats taken.įor the Oct. 15 performance, but the orchestra is well filled - par for the course when it comes to new operas. Fewer than half of the balcony seats are sold for the Sept. Now, ticket sales: Going off SF Opera’s ticket-purchase application, sales for Antony and Cleopatra are slow. On the other side of the ledger is the fact that the country’s opera companies invested over a billion dollars in the economy annually before 2020. Gockley’s successor, Matthew Shilvock, estimated earlier this year that the operating budget for 2022–2023 would be “in the low 90s,” nearly double the 2021 pandemic-depressed figure. Matthew Shilvock | Credit: Kristen Loken/San Francisco Opera
Operating budget: $92 million season subscribers: 80,000 ticket sales providing percentage of budget: 29%. Still, the company has assets in excess of a third of a billion dollars at the end of fiscal year 2019, they equaled $273 million, and even with COVID problems, total assets sharply increased at the end of 2021 to $370 million.Įight years ago, which seems like an eternity now, former General Director David Gockley, fighting the effects of the previous downturn in the economy, forecast for the centennial year, with surprising accuracy about the budget. The budget stayed at $70.5 million in fiscal year 2020, still including income from 2019, but dropped to $52 million in fiscal year 2021 as the result of closures in 2020. The War Memorial’s new seats as of 2021 | Credit: Kristen LokenĬoncerning budget: SF Opera today is a huge organization, running before the pandemic on a $78.5 million operating budget, involving hundreds of employees, orchestra musicians, soloists, chorus members, technicians, costumers, makeup artists, security, and stagehands.
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