Andrew Jorgensen

Opera Theatre of St. Louis made a tentative agreement to buy the former Clayton headquarters of Caleres. The opera company, long based in Webster Groves, wants to build a performing arts center but still has to work out plans for construction and fundraising.

Timothy O’Leary, general director of Opera Theatre of St. Louis, is concluding a 10 year run in St. Louis as head of the city’s premier opera theater…