Composer Missy Mazzoli's "Breaking the Waves," inspired by the Lars von Trier film of the same name, runs through April 14, 2024, at the Detroit Opera House.

‘Breaking the Waves’ running through Sunday at Detroit Opera House

April 10, 2024

Composer Missy Mazzoli has been called a post-millenial Mozart. This week, Detroiters will have an opportunity to see her work...

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Detroit Opera's 2024–25 opera season will conclude with Anthony Davis’s "The Central Park Five," (May 10–18, 2025), a true-story adaptation of systemic discrimination that earned Davis the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2020.

Detroit Opera 2024-25 season to feature ‘Central Park Five,’ AI-inspired ‘Così fan tutte’ and more

March 18, 2024

Detroit Opera's 2024-25 season will feature an eclectic variety of opera productions written over three centuries, as well as dance...

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Dame Jane Glover, Ryan Patrick Hooper and Key'mon Murrah smile in WDET's main control room

Detroit Opera showcases unique talents with ‘Xerxes’

March 3, 2023

Under the leadership of Yuval Sharon, Detroit Opera has put on some groundbreaking productions, and another one opens this weekend....

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Yuval Sharon and Amina Edris smile in front of WDET's logo at our studios in November 2022

Detroit Opera sets the stage for a modern-day ‘Faust’

, November 18, 2022

The Detroit Opera will be showing an updated rendition of 'Faust' with performances on Friday and Sunday this week. Yuval...

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Malcolm X-inspired opera opens Saturday at Detroit Opera House

May 12, 2022

Malcolm X was a minister, human rights activist and prominent Black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the...

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Life of civil rights icon becomes an opera with “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X”

May 6, 2022

“X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” opens with a heart-wrenching scene in East Lansing and tells the story...

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