The show will go on for Opera San Antonio, despite symphony musicians’ strike
by Nicholas Frank
On Thursday, Opera San Antonio (OSA) announced that the Oct. 7 and Oct. 9 productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, its opening performances of the 2021-2022 season, will go on as planned with or without San Antonio Symphony musicians in its orchestra.
The opera production is the first performance to be affected by the strike called on Sept. 27 by the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony to protest the imposition of a revised contract by the Symphony Society of San Antonio, which manages the orchestra’s operations.
E. Loren Meeker, OSA general and artistic director, said the decision was made after the musicians and their representing union, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 23, declined an offer to hire a portion of the Symphony’s musicians for the performances on terms outside of the current contract.