San Diego Opera’s Resident Conductor, Karen Keltner, has been associated with the Company since 1982 and has conducted a broad repertoire including last season’s La bohème and Romeo and Juliet. Other operas which she has conducted for San Diego Opera include Don Quixote, The Pearl Fishers, Samson and Delilah, Wozzeck, Carmen, The Conquistador, Così fan tutte, Thérèse Raquin, The Flying Dutchman, The Lighthouse, Cold Sassy Tree, A Streetcar Named Desire and Rigoletto. Recent engagements have been with Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg, New York City Opera, Anchorage Opera, Kansas City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and Opera Carolina. Karen Keltner gives master classes for singers in universities and cities where she guest conducts. In San Diego she has served on the Board of Directors for Rachel’s Women’s Center, a day center providing services and support for homeless women.