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Detroit Opera's Upcoming Season: A Celebration of Dance and Opera
Detroit Opera is set to captivate audiences with an extraordinary lineup of performances that span dance and opera genres. This season promises to be a feast for the senses, featuring the innovative Complexions Contemporary Ballet, the timeless artistry of Twyla Tharp, the enchanting opera 'Rinaldo', the iconic Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a futuristic rendition of 'Così fan tutte', the harmonious Malandain Ballet Biarritz, and the powerful narrative of 'The Central Park Five'. Each event brings its own unique flair, making the Detroit Opera House the center of artistic excellence this season.
Nov 29, 2024
Share1. Complexions Contemporary Ballet: 30th Anniversary Tour
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.
7 - 8 Dec, 2024
Detroit Opera
Detroit, MI · Detroit Opera House
2. Twyla Tharp Dance: Diamond Jubilee
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.
1 - 2 Feb, 2025
Detroit Opera
Detroit, MI · Detroit Opera House
3. Rinaldo
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.
Feb 22 - Mar 2, 2025
Detroit Opera
Detroit, MI · Detroit Opera House
4. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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.
14 - 16 Mar, 2025
Detroit Opera
Detroit, MI · Detroit Opera House
5. Cosi fan tutte
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.
5 - 13 Apr, 2025
Detroit Opera
Detroit, MI · Detroit Opera House
6. Malandain Ballet Biarritz: The Seasons
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.
26 - 27 Apr, 2025
Detroit Opera
Detroit, MI · Detroit Opera House
7. The Central Park Five
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.
10 - 18 May, 2025
Detroit Opera
Detroit, MI · Detroit Opera House
Conclusion
Detroit Opera's upcoming season is a remarkable confluence of diverse artistic expressions, uniting ballet, contemporary dance, and opera in a celebration of creativity and narrative power. From the pioneering choreography of Complexions Contemporary Ballet to the socially conscious themes of 'The Central Park Five', each performance is a testament to the transformative power of the performing arts. Audiences can look forward to a season that not only entertains but also inspires and challenges, reaffirming Detroit Opera House's reputation as a beacon of cultural and artistic excellence.
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