Calgary Opera CEO Heather Kitchen to step down on the finish of December

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Kitchen is a 40-year veteran of arts administration who beforehand served because the interim govt producer for Performing Arts on the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity.

Beneath Kitchen’s management, Calgary Opera expanded its training and group engagement programming, established Opera Labs to workshop new works and enhanced coaching in performing for the digicam, lip-synching, struggle coaching and language abilities growth as a part of a reorganization of the McPhee Artist Growth Program.

In a press release, Kitchen mentioned “having managed 4 main arts organizations in Canada and america during the last 30-plus years, now looks like the correct time to step away and make room for the subsequent era of arts leaders to hold the mantle.”

The board is presently engaged on “figuring out a successor to make sure a seamless transition of obligations.”