BVA is proud to announce that Peter Zuspan is a member of the inaugural cohort of the San Francisco Opera's Instigators, a bold new multidisciplinary program that brings a group of remarkable thinkers and artists into the world of opera.

As the Company is poised to celebrate its 2022–23 Centennial Season, the initiative is designed to pioneer future directions for San Francisco Opera and the art form.

San Francisco Opera’s Instigators include storyteller-musician- journalist Jad Abumrad, creator of Radiolab and other podcasts; writer- director Samantha Gorman (co-director/founder of Tender Claws), whose stories unfold using emerging media such as AR/VR; writer-scenographer-director Abhishek Majumdar, artistic director of Bangalore's Nalanda Arts Studio; design technologist Paula Te, researching the intersection of the digital and the physical in culture and education; chef-educator-author Bryant Terry, James Beard and NAACP Image Award- 2 winning activist; and architect-designer-software engineer Peter Zuspan of Bureau V Architecture, a queer-led architecture and design studio.