{{short description|American opera director and businessman|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2019}}
'''Keith Cerny''' is an American [[opera director]] and businessman. From 2004 to 2007 he was executive director and CFO of the [[San Francisco Opera]] and from 2010 to 2018 he was general director of the [[Dallas Opera]].<ref name="ON"/> In 2018 he was appointed general director of the [[Calgary Opera]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/opera/2017/12/15/dallas-opera-general-director-keith-cerny-leaving-calgary|title=In latest arts departure, Dallas Opera general director Keith Cerny leaving for Calgary|author=Scott Cantrell|work=[[The Dallas Morning News]]|date=December 15, 2017}}</ref> He is also the former CEO of [[Sheet Music Plus]] (2008–2010), the world's largest interest-based sheet-music company. He is a graduate of the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (B.A. in music and B.S. in physics), the [[Harvard Business School]] (M.B.A.), and the [[Open University]] in the United Kingdom (Ph.D. in Economic Development Studies/Econometrics). He also studied conducting, voice, and accompanying at the [[Guildhall School of Music and Drama]] in London and studied opera-accompanying in [[English National Opera]]'s répétiteur training course. He also worked for [[McKinsey & Company]] for six years where he was a Senior Engagement Manager, and seven years with the consulting firm [[Accenture]].<ref name="ON">{{cite news|url=https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2017/12/News/Dallas_Opera_Keith_Cerny.html|title=Dallas Opera General Director Keith Cerny Resigns, Appointed New Chief of Calgary Opera|work=[[Opera News]]|date=December 15, 2017}}</ref> He is also an executive board member for [[Opera America]].
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