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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America, I AM: From Injustice to Redemption is a dynamic event of spoken work, art, and reflection that brings together Detroit-based exonerees who will share their personal narratives of resilience and transformation. Their stories, marked by trials and triumphs, offer a raw and real look at the intersections of justice, identity, and redemption. This community...
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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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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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A Young Professionals Membership Rate Detroit Opera believes that supporting the arts should remain accessible and inclusive for emergent leaders and arts lovers under 40. That’s why we’re offering DiChiera Society Prelude, an exclusive 50%-off membership rate that unlocks the same benefits as our full DiChiera Society membership. We recognize that as a young professional,...
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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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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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