With our community partner the University of Michigan School of Social Work, Detroit Opera has prepared a Reflection and Resource Guide to help you respond to the themes raised by our production of The Central Park Five, performed at the Detroit Opera House May 10 – 18, 2025. Click the image below to download the...
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From our colleagues Tia Graham and Ryan Patrick Hooper at WDET Detroit: Three years ago, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X sold out shows at the Detroit Opera House for the first time in over a decade. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer behind that success is back in Detroit. Anthony Davis returns this...
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From the assembly lines of the Motor City to the rhythms of Motown and techno, Detroit is a city forged in struggle and creativity. But its history includes people with almost unimaginable survival stories: decades in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. These Detroiters were wrongfully convicted—some as children, others by the manipulation of police...
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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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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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What does it mean to make art from inside a prison? To create while confined? To imagine freedom while physically restrained? Babatunde Akinboboye as Matias Reyes in The Central Park Five. (Portland Opera) These are lived realities for thousands of incarcerated people in Michigan who find meaning, expression, and power through creative work. For...
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The Detroit Opera Youth Chorus (DOYC) is a world-class training program for young vocalists ages 8 to 17 from metropolitan Detroit.The chorus performs as a separate ensemble as well as with international opera stars in Detroit Opera mainstage productions. Rehearsals take place at the Detroit Opera House on Monday evenings from September through May, led...
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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...
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