San Francisco Opera will again mount a six-opera season in 2026-27, reinforcing that the reduced schedule — now in its third consecutive year — has effectively become the company’s new normal.
The Opera is seeing significant, positive audience trends. The 2024-25 season sold at 82% of capacity and the 2025-26 season is expected to match that. Among the company’s biggest draws last fall was its world premiere of Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s “The Monkey King” — with Shilvock reporting they sold out of “every single seat, before we even opened the first curtain.”