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Detroit Opera continues to push and shove at the boundaries of what the art form can achieve with John Cage’s “Europeras 3 & 4.” ... presented by Detroit Opera at the Gem Theatre, directed ...
Detroit Opera is the principal opera company in Michigan, US. The company is based in Detroit, where it performs in the Detroit Opera House. Prior to February 28, 2022, the company was named Michigan Opera Theatre. [1] Annually, it produces a series of operas in their original language with English supertitles and presents touring dance companies.
The old Detroit Opera House on Campus Martius in the early 1900s. Detroit has a long theatrical history, with many venues dating back to the 1920s. [7] The Detroit Fox Theatre (1928) was the first theater ever constructed with built-in film sound equipment.
Detroit Opera’s staging takes the characters from their original 1853 setting to the early 20th century to take a progressive look at gender relations and society’s changing views about women.
Ben Taylor (Jan), Kiera Duffy (Bess) and Elizabeth Van Os (Mrs. McNeill) rehearse for Detroit Opera’s performances of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's "Breaking the Waves" on April 6, 12 and 14.
The work is regarded as one of the finest Polish national operas. It is made up of musical forms from the Polish folk tradition - polonaises, mazurkas and dumkas - and was the first Polish opera to be "through-composed" (i.e. the entire libretto is set to music and there is no spoken dialogue). [6]
A dance concert set to music by U2? Believe it. Ballet and Bono will come together on the Detroit Opera House stage when Complexions Contemporary Ballet returns to the city Dec. 7 and 8.
The Haunted Manor (Polish: Straszny dwór) is an opera in four acts composed by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko in 1861–1864. The libretto was written by Jan Chęciński [ pl ] . Despite being a romance and a comedy, it has strong Polish patriotic undertones, which made it both popular with the Polish public and unpopular – to the ...