Graz Opera the 2017-2018 season. Lyniv is the first female conductor to be named GMD of Graz Opera. She is scheduled to conclude her tenure in Graz at the end of the 2019-2020 season. In December 2018, the company announced the appointment of Roland Kluttig as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2020-2021 season, with an initial contract of 3 seasons. Graz Opera Graz Opera (German: Oper Graz) is an Austria opera house and opera company based in Graz. The orchestra of the opera house also performs concerts as the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra ("Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester"). Opera had been performed in
Trams in Graz was introduced in 1999 by the fitting of new low-floor centre sections to 12 existing trams. In 2007, Graz ordered 45 Stadler Variobahn trams for delivery between 2009 and 2015. These vehicles proved controversial, with complaints over noise and vibration levels. Initially confined to the north-south axis lines 4 and 5, the trams started operating on the east-west axis in 2013, after modifications and imposition of a speed limit. In 2012, new tram tunnels were built to serve the city's main railway station (Graz Hauptbahnhof), which was previously the terminus of two tram lines and some distance from the main