Tag: Music in Detroit
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August 3, 2024, 11:00 am
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7:00 pm
This is your opportunity to Buy Black and support small businesses on the Historic Avenue of Fashion, America’s Largest Black Business District! At this year’s Jazz on the Ave, expect live entertainment, artisan vendors, a classic car show, fashion shows, family activities, and for the first time ever, a parade featuring Cass Tech Marching Band! Read more...
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August 24, 2024, 6:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Join us on August 24th at 6:00 pm for Michael and Marsha Evans. Mike is a Professional Piano Accompanist, and Marsha is a former WDIV super singer and Detroit Black Music award finalist. No ticket is required for entry. Read more...
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October 19, 2024, 7:30 pm
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10:00 pm
Elegance and grandeur abound in Francesca Zambello’s 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. Tickets Read more...
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October 25, 2024, 7:30 pm
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10:00 pm
Elegance and grandeur abound in Francesca Zambello’s 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. Tickets Read more...
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October 27, 2024, 2:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Elegance and grandeur abound in Francesca Zambello’s 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. Tickets Read more...
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November 2, 2024, 12:00 am
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November 3, 2024, 12:00 am
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 Read more...
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November 23, 2024, 12:00 am
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November 24, 2024, 12:00 am
Saturday, November 23, 2024 – 7:30pm Sunday, 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 Read more...
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December 7, 2024, 12:00 am
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December 8, 2024, 12:00 am
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 Read more...
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February 1, 2025, 12:00 am
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February 2, 2025, 12:00 am
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 Read more...
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February 22, 2025, 7:30 pm
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10:30 pm
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. Read more...
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February 28, 2025, 7:30 pm
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10:30 pm
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. Read more...
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March 2, 2025, 2:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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. Read more...
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March 14, 2025, 12:00 am
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March 16, 2025, 12:00 am
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 Read more...
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April 5, 2025, 7:30 pm
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10:30 pm
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 Read more...
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April 11, 2025, 7:30 pm
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10:30 pm
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 Read more...
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April 13, 2025, 2:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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 Read more...
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April 26, 2025, 12:00 am
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April 27, 2025, 12:00 am
Saturday, April 26, 2025 – 7:30pm Sunday, April 27, 2025 – 2:30pm 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 Read more...
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May 10, 2025, 7:30 pm
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10:00 pm
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 Read more...
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May 16, 2025, 7:30 pm
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10:00 pm
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 Read more...
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May 18, 2025, 2:30 pm
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5:00 pm
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 Read more...