Elim Chan has been named the symphony’s next music director. She joins a small field of female conductors at American orchestras, as San Francisco rebuilds after Esa-Pekka Salonen.
“When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” the conductor Elim Chan said of her appointment in San Francisco. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken.”
The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.
Washington National Opera officials contend that exiting the Kennedy Center would also give it more control over programming decisions.
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