By Frank Cadenhead [MusicalAmerica.com, 19 January 2007]
Austriaís Graz Opera has named Elisabeth Sobotka to succeed Jˆrg Kossdorff as Intendant, effective with the 2009-10 season. A native of Vienna, Sobotka, 42, has been since 2002 opera director at Berlinís Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where her name appears third after Peter Mussbach (Intendant) and Daniel Barenboim (music director).