By Frank Cadenhead [MusicalAmerica.com, 19 January 2007]

Austria’s Graz Opera has named Elisabeth Sobotka to succeed Jörg Kossdorff as Intendant, effective with the 2009-10 season. A native of Vienna, Sobotka, 42, has been since 2002 opera director at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where her name appears third after Peter Mussbach (Intendant) and Daniel Barenboim (music director).