Spring has arrived, and we are excited to see hundreds of members in person at Opera Conference 2023 in Pittsburgh. We are grateful to our colleagues at Pittsburgh Opera for their tremendous assistance as hosts this year, as they were back in 2004. That year, OPERA America organized the first-ever National Performing Arts Convention during which the yearly meetings of OPERA America, Dance/USA, the League of American Orchestras, Theatre Communications Group, and other national associations all took place concurrently. That convocation demonstrated the value of national collaboration across the performing arts in communicating a unity of purpose — a model for every city.