Minnesota Opera has hired Priti Gandhi for the newly created position of chief artistic officer.
A native of Mumbai, India, Gandhi is currently artistic administrator of San Diego Opera, where she advises the general director on casting and artistic budgeting, and oversees artistic contracting and management. According to a Minnesota Opera news release, Gandhi served as a member of the administrative team that helped save San Diego Opera from near closure in 2014.
Gandhi has had a 20-year international opera career, appearing with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, San Diego Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, the Royal Opera House, Prague Estates Theatre, New York City Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra and San Francisco Opera. She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in communications and a minor in theater from the University of California, San Diego, and has served as a published weekly columnist with the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The announcement ends a five-month search, completing Minnesota Opera’s creative team along with president and general director Ryan Taylor, creative adviser to the president Dale Johnson and chief production officer Karen Quisenberry.
