Upcoming Performances
Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Malandain Ballet Biarritz has become one of the most important companies of the French choreographic landscape. This original production combines Antonio Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons and the little-known works of his contemporary and compatriot Giovanni Antonio Guido. Guido’s Seasons awakens memories of belle danse (baroque dance), which emerged in the seventeenth century from the ideal of governing one’s body and mind, and moving with grace, accuracy, and lightness. With Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, dancers are moved by a more natural, more human form of dance.
April 26 and 27, 2025
Dance
The Central Park Five
Anthony Davis, composer of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Music for this true story adaptation of systemic discrimination. This gripping opera follows the wrongful convictions of five African American and Latino teenagers in the assault of a white female jogger in Central Park.
Despite racial injustice, resilience and redemption emerge as the five men fight for freedom.
May 10-18, 2025
Opera
Detroit Opera…has placed itself at the center of the operatic conversation”
David Allen
The New York Times
Featured Events
Malandain Ballet Biarritz Masterclass
April 26, 2025
This masterclass will be taught by company members of internationally-renowned Malandain Ballet Biarritz. The masterclass will highlight ballet technique. This class is most suitable for intermediate/advanced dancers ages 13 and up. Pre-registration is required due to space limitations.
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Detroit Opera Youth Chorus Auditions
April 28 & May 17, 2025
The Detroit Opera Youth Chorus is holding auditions for the 2025-2026 season. Singers ages 8 through seniors in high school are encouraged to audition. DOYC rehearses at the Detroit Opera House on Monday evenings starting in September.
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Conversation with Anthony Davis and Nataki Garrett
May 7, 2025 | 7:00PM | North Rosedale Park Community House
What is it like for an artist to take a work from the page to the stage? What does it take to turn real life into art? The conversation will explore both the creative process and the personal experiences of artists in bringing the story of The Central Park Five to the Detroit Opera House.
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Mike Karloff and Dr. Andrew Bishop: A Tribute to Composer Anthony Davis
May 14, 2025 | 7:00PM | Spot Lite Detroit
Mike Karloff is a multi-talented pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and musical director based in Windsor. Andrew Bishop is a versatile saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, composer, improviser, educator, and scholar comfortable in many musical idioms. Together, they will perform a jazz program in tribute to Composer Anthony Davis of The Central Park Five and X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. This event is FREE and open to the public – no reservation required!
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The Cadillac Café Lounge
Elevate your Detroit Opera experience with exclusive pre-show and intermission lounge access! Pre-show, you’ll enjoy an elegant evening in our Cadillac Café with a welcome drink (beer, wine, or soda), a delectable charcuterie box, table or bar seating, complimentary coat check (in lobby), and access to the Café restroom. At intermission, return to the Café for access to an exclusive cash bar. Cadillac Café lounge access is available for just $40 per person.
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PROGRAM: Così fan tutte
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PRE-OPERA TALKS: Così fan tutte
Detroit Opera offers complimentary opera and dance talks one hour prior to each performance. Noted experts provide background and important information on what you will see on stage, enhancing your performance experience! Opera Talks and Dance Talks provide an insightful and entertaining preview of the works performed on stage. Unless otherwise directed, Talks take place…
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“Love Me, Love My Code”
From Pygmalion to AI Girlfriends by Austin Richey, Ph.D. Digital Media Manager and Storyteller, Detroit Opera Humans have been falling for machines—emotionally, philosophically, and occasionally romantically—since long before Siri flirted back. Ameca, a humanoid robot created by Engineered Arts (2023) Opera is full of grand romances, heartbreaks, and impossible love. But what happens when…
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Mozart’s Mechanical World
Automatons, Enlightenment, and Early AI by Austin Richey, Ph.D. Digital Media Manager and Storyteller, Detroit Opera Imagine yourself in a Viennese salon, sometime around 1780. Candlelight flickers across parquet floors and gold-leafed mirrors, while the hum of intellectual conversation mingles with the delicate strains of a string quartet. Lace sleeves brush crystal goblets, and powdered…
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Hearts in the Cloud: AI, Desire, and the Digital Lovers Among Us
If Mozart were alive today, would he swipe right on a chatbot? by Austin T. Richey, Ph.D. Digital Media Manager and Storyteller, Detroit Opera L to R: Oliva Boen as Fiordiligi and Emily Fons as Dorabella in Detroit Opera’s Così fan tutte (Austin T. Richey) In Così fan tutte, love is a game of disguise,…
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Detroit: Love, Labor and the Robot Soul
An advertisement for Movement Festival at Detroit’s Packard Plant. From the clang of assembly lines at Ford’s Rouge Plant to the deep thump of bass at an underground techno rave, the Motor City has spent a century dancing with automation. But what happens when the machines start dancing back? When robots don’t just build our…
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