Finnish-American conductor Ari Pelto is Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera and Music Director of Opera Colorado — one of the rare conductors equally at home in the opera house, on the ballet stage, and in the symphony hall. Since becoming Opera Colorado’s first Music Director in 2015, he has led acclaimed productions from Aida and Carmen to the premieres of Korngold’s Die tote Stadt and Lori Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter. A longtime collaborator with Atlanta Ballet, he conducts across the United States, Europe, and Asia.