Editing Dallas Opera (section)

==Administration==
[[Anthony Whitworth-Jones]] became General Director in 2001.  However, his plans for expanding the company's repertory did not come to fruition in the wake of an economic downturn during his tenure, and he stood down from the post in 2003.<ref>Cantrell, ''Opera News''. (Retrieve my subscription only)</ref>  
His successor, Karen Stone, was appointed in mid-2003 as the company's fifth General Director.  She had previously worked with [[Graeme Jenkins]] at the Cologne Opera in Germany, where he was principal guest conductor.  Stone resigned from the post effective 30 September 2007.<ref>Cantrell, Scott, "Dallas Opera chief leaving", ''The Dallas Morning News'', 8 August 2007</ref>  

[[Keith Cerny]] was general director and CEO from May 2010 until January 2018.  During his tenure, he initiated the company's public simulcast series in locations ranging from [[AT&T Stadium]] (home of the Dallas Cowboys) to Klyde Warren Park.  This included a nine-city simulcast of Tod Machover's ''Death and the Powers''.  Cerny is credited with stabilizing company finances, which allowed both the commissioning of new operas and new initiatives such as the "Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors at The Dallas Opera" (2015) designed to address the challenge of gender imbalance at the top levels of the classical music industry.  In November 2015, Cerny's existing contract as General Director and CEO was extended until 2022.<ref name="CernyVillaumeNov2015">{{cite press release | url=https://dallasopera.org/news/2015/11/20/keith-cerny-and-emmanuel-villaume-extend-tdo-contracts-to-june-2022/ | title=Keith Cerny and Emmanuel Villaume Extend TDO Contracts to June 2022! | date=20 November 2015 | publisher=The Dallas Opera | access-date=2018-04-07 | archive-date=2018-04-08 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408010129/https://dallasopera.org/news/2015/11/20/keith-cerny-and-emmanuel-villaume-extend-tdo-contracts-to-june-2022/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>  In December 2017, the company announced Cerny's resignation from the Dallas Opera, effective January 2018.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://dallasopera.org/news/2017/12/15/announcing-the-resignation-of-general-director-and-ceo-keith-cerny/ | title=Announcing the Resignation of General Director and CEO Keith Cerny | publisher=Dallas Opera | date=15 December 2017 | access-date=2018-04-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217014059/https://dallasopera.org/news/2017/12/15/announcing-the-resignation-of-general-director-and-ceo-keith-cerny/ | archive-date=17 December 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

French conductor [[Emmanuel Villaume]] became the company's music director on 30 April 2013.<ref>Megan Meister, [http://dallasopera.org/news/2013/04/30/the-dallas-opera-proudly-announces-our-new-music-director-emmanuel-villaume/ "The Dallas opera Proudly Announces Our New Music Director Emmanuel Villaume"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901133328/http://dallasopera.org/news/2013/04/30/the-dallas-opera-proudly-announces-our-new-music-director-emmanuel-villaume/ |date=2013-09-01 }} April 30, 2013 on dallasopera.org</ref>  [[Graeme Jenkins]], who was music director from 1994 to 2013, now has the title of Music Director Emeritus with the company.  In November 2015, Villaume's contract was extended through June 2022.<ref name="CernyVillaumeNov2015"/>

In April 2018, the company announced the appointment of Ian Derrer as its next general director and CEO effective July 2018. He previously worked with Dallas Opera from 2014 to 2016 as an artistic administrator.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cantrell|first1=Scott|title=Dallas Opera names SMU grad as new general director and CEO|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/opera/2018/04/05/dallas-opera-new-general-director|access-date=5 April 2018|publisher=Dallas News|date=April 5, 2018}}</ref>