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The HGO Association has 166 members: a 34-member Board of Directors, chaired by Beth Madison, as of August 1, 2011, one honorary director, and 131 Trustees.

The Board of Directors meets four times, and the Trustees meet three times each year.

The opera employs over 1, 000 people annually, 120 of whom are full-time staff.

On May 25, 2011, the Board of Directors appointed Patrick Summers as Artistic and Music Director, occupying the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair.

At the same time, Perryn Leech was named Managing Director.

They succeed Anthony Freud, OBE, the company's General Director from 2005 – 2011, who resigned at the end of the 2010 – 11 season to assume leadership of Lyric Opera of Chicago.