Season Subscriptions
We are thrilled to announce our 24/25 Opera and Dance Seasons! Now is your opportunity to become a subscriber to ensure you experience all that we have to offer. For our Opera season, you’ll enjoy four operas with amazing casts, gorgeous music, and inventive sets and costumes, including a brand-new production by Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director Yuval Sharon! For Dance at Detroit Opera, you’ll enjoy six amazing dance companies, from fan-favorites to debut companies.
Benefits
Subscriptions offer many benefits over purchasing individual tickets, including:
• Same seats for all productions in your package
• The best seats at the best discount on tickets
• Advance purchase of discounted parking
• Easy and free exchanges
• Discounts on other national opera company tickets through Opera Passport by OPERA America
• And so much more!
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FOUR OPERA PACKAGE
The season kicks off with an elegant 1920s setting of Verdi’s La traviata, followed by an updated Handel’s Rinaldo. Yuval Sharon creates a brand new Cosi fan tutte where artificial intelligence is placed front and center. Concluding the season is Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera The Central Park Five.
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ALL ACCESS PACKAGE
Subscribe to all ten of our amazing Opera and Dance productions for the ultimate experience of all that Detroit Opera has to offer – including a brand new Yuval Sharon production of Cosi fan tutte , dance company debuts, and fan favorite Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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SIX DANCE PACKAGE
Enjoy six amazing productions, from fan-favorite Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to the returns of Mark Morris Dance Group and Malandain Ballet Biarritz. Three new companies debut, including Twyla Tharp, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and the all-male comedy dance troupe, The Trocks.
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Choose Your Own (CYO) Package!
Curate your own custom three, four, or six production package by selecting your favorite performances among our 24/25 Season of Opera and Dance!
Choose from four amazing operas and six gorgeous dance productions for your perfect package.
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Opera
Dance @ Detroit Opera
La traviata
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Director - Francesca Zambello
Conductor – Roberto Kalb
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Saturday, October 19, 2024 – 7:30pm
Friday, October 25, 2024 – 7:30pm
Sunday, October 27, 2024 – 2:30pm
Elegance and grandeur abound in this updated 20th century setting of Verdi’s treasured opera. The vibrant Violetta falls in love with young nobleman Alfredo, but society tests their love and demands sacrifice. Will they find happiness before it’s too late?
Detroit Opera Music Director Roberto Kalb leads this world-class cast, which includes Emily Pogorelc, Galeano Salas, and Rod Gilfry.
Rinaldo
Music by George Frideric Handel
Libretto by Giacomo Rossi
Director – Louisa Proske
Conductor – Roberto Kalb
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Saturday, February 22, 2025 – 7:30pm
Friday, February 28, 2025 – 7:30pm
Sunday, March 2, 2025 – 2:30pm
Handel’s Baroque blockbuster is viewed through the lens of a child’s fantasy in a contemporary pediatric ward. The young patients venture on a heroic journey, where knights, sorcerers, monsters, and magic are used as a salve for unimaginable challenges.
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo leads the talented cast in Louisa Proske’s reimagined production, conducted by Detroit Opera Music Director Roberto Kalb.
Così fan tutte
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Director – Yuval Sharon
Conductor - Corinna Niemeyer
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Saturday, April 5, 2025 – 7:30pm
Friday, April 11, 2025 – 7:30pm
Sunday, April 13, 2025 – 2:30pm
This brand-new production by Detroit Opera Artistic Director Yuval Sharon offers a fresh take on Mozart’s controversial comedy, where the role of Artificial Intelligence turns the tale into a futuristic experiment. Don Alfonso’s manipulations of the “emotions” of his robotic inventions (the lovers) become an obsessive quest to develop spiritual machines.
Will his laboratory of lovers lead to a breakthrough for “Humanity 2.0,” or are human habits of jealousy and deceit hardwired into us?
The Central Park Five
Music by Anthony Davis
Libretto by Richard Wesley
Director – Nataki Garrett
Conductor – Anthony Parnther
Sung in English with English subtitles
Saturday, May 10, 2025 – 7:30pm
Friday, May 16, 2025 – 7:30pm
Sunday, May 18, 2025 – 2:30pm
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.
Mark Morris Dance Group: The Look of Love
Mark Morris, Artistic Director
Saturday, November 2, 2024 – 7:30pm
Sunday, November 3, 2024 – 2:30pm
Mark Morris teams up with musical collaborator Ethan Iverson for The Look of Love, a wistful and heartfelt homage to the chart-topping songs of Burt Bacharach. A towering figure of popular music, Bacharach is known for his soaring melodies and unique orchestrations influenced by jazz, rock, and Brazilian music.
This playful and vibrant work features original choreography by Morris and new musical arrangements by Iverson, performed live by an ensemble of piano, trumpet, bass, and drums, with Broadway star Marcy Harriell on lead vocals.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: 50th Anniversary Tour
Tory Dobrin, Artistic Director
November 23, 2024 – 7:30pm
November 24, 2024 – 2:30pm
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo brings its internationally beloved troupe of male dancers to Detroit to perform a brilliant combination of skillful pointe work and hilarious parodying of classical ballet favorites such as Swan Lake and The Dying Swan.
The world’s foremost all-male comic ballet company, this ensemble of the highest technically proficient dancers parodies the conventions of romantic and classical ballet while making serious statements about gender identity and equality. The Trocks will be accompanied by live music from the Detroit Opera Orchestra.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet: 30th Anniversary Tour
A co-promotion with Music Hall
Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, Co-Artistic Directors
Saturday, December 7, 2024 – 7:30pm
Sunday, December 8, 2024 – 2:30pm
Making their Detroit Opera House debut, Complexions Contemporary Ballet has awakened audiences to a new, exciting genre with their singular approach of reinventing dance and contemporary ballet. Led by dance icons Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson with stunning gifted dancers and powerful choreography, Complexions has been hailed as a “matchless American dance company” by the Philadelphia Inquirer and “game changing” by London’s The Guardian.
Featuring live music from the Detroit Opera Orchestra playing Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, and Helbig as well as a performance of Ave Maria, will open the first act. Completing the program in act two is Love Rocks, set to the fun and thrilling music of Lenny Kravitz, where Rock meets Ballet!
Twyla Tharp Dance: Diamond Jubilee
featuring Third Coast Percussion
Saturday, February 1, 2025 – 7:30pm
Sunday, February 2, 2025 – 2:30pm
Twyla Tharp celebrates her 60th anniversary with a Coast-to-Coast tour featuring her Olivier-nominated Diabelli Variations, set to Beethoven’s masterpiece of the same name. The first and only choreographer to take on the intensely demanding and demonically complex work, Tharp makes visible the elegant humor and depth of the composer’s layered genius.
The program also features a new work in collaboration with composer Philip Glass, their first since 1986. A reimagining of Glass’s "Aguas da Amazonia" score is augmented with new music and accompanied live by Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion, performed on a unique collection of custom-designed percussion instruments.
This groundbreaking evening is not one to be missed and is sure to dazzle audiences with its stellar dancing and phenomenal musicianship.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Matthew Rushing, Associate Artistic Director
Friday, March 14, 2025 – 7:30pm
Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 7:30pm
Sunday, March 16, 2025 – 2:30pm
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater grew from a now-fabled performance in March 1958 at The 92nd Street Y in New York City. Led by Alvin Ailey and a group of young African American modern dancers, that performance changed forever the perception of American dance. The Ailey company has gone on to perform for an estimated 25 million people at theaters in 48 states and 71 countries on six continents–as well as millions more through television broadcasts, film screenings, and online platforms.
Today, the Company continues Mr. Ailey's mission by presenting important works of the past and commissioning new ones. All programs will include Ailey’s iconic Revelations; the program’s remaining repertoire will be announced at a later date.
Malandain Ballet Biarritz: The Seasons
Thierry Malandain, Artistic Director
Saturday, April 26, 2025 – 7:30pm
Sunday, April 27, 2025 – 2:30pm
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.
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