reprinted with permission from SF Opera

On reflecting over the extraordinary year of 2025, SF Opera’s General Director Matthew Shilvock celebrates what was collectively accomplished in 2025. He says: “It’s very meaningful for me when an opera house sits in the middle of a city (as ours does) because it reaffirms a fundamental truth: opera houses are meeting places. Places where we come together, free of judgement, and connect around the things that we share as humans – emotions, relationships, feeelings. So, when we have a year of extraordinary impact, like this past year, it is because we have come together as a community to make it possible. And what a year it was!