Opera Theatre of St. Louis

Patricia Racette, a soprano and stage director with a long resume, will be the next artistic director for Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Racette is currently artistic director of Opera Theatre’s programs for young artists.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis made a tentative agreement to buy the former Clayton headquarters of Caleres. The opera company, long based in Webster Groves, wants to build a performing arts center but still has to work out plans for construction and fundraising.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and poet and writer Ruby Aiyo Gerber discuss co-writing the opera, “This House,” which has its world premiere on May 31 at Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

This year’s New Works Collective program includes the world premiere of three operas that were selected by St. Louis artists, many of whom work outside the opera world.

After 16 years as artistic director of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, James Robinson is headed west to lead Seattle Opera.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis is producing a Philip Glass opera for only the second time. ‘‘Galileo Galilei” tells the story of the legendary astronomer’s pursuit of scientific fact and the resulting conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.

Nominees for St. Louis’ best theater performances and productions of 2023 are out from the St. Louis Theater Circle. Winners will be unveiled in March.

Richard Gaddes merely intended to advise some opera lovers about starting a new company. He wound up founding Opera Theatre of St. Louis. The visionary opera producer died Tuesday at 81.

The charitable arm of PNC Bank awarded $250,000 in grants to Dance St. Louis, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Black Rep and St. Louis ArtWorks.

Scott Joplin, the king of ragtime music, wrote an opera that lay dormant for decades. A new adaptation of “Treemonisha” at Opera Theatre of St. Louis shows that the composer blended influences from European opera and Black culture.