The Russian Minister of Culture has appointed conductor Ara Karapetyan as General Manager of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera. From 1992–1997, he was conductor at the Perm Opera. He was also conductor and General Manager of the Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in Moscow. Since 2017, he has been a guest conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre. In Novosibirsk he succeeds Vladimir Kekhman who officially left this post on December 4, continuing to work in the theatre artistic director.