More about this production. Margaret Winters – Grosse Pointe It was a great production – strong singing and fine acting. As someone who loves both opera and musical theatre, I am hard pressed to categorize “Sweeney Todd” – I saw it on Broadway when it was first performed and have seen it elsewhere as well. …
One way to make opera-lovers cringe is to tell them that The Phantom of the Opera is their favorite opera. The show features a classical singing style, a dramatic plot and even has “opera” in its name. But Andrew Lloyd Weber’s long-running favorite is, in fact, considered a musical. Sweeney Todd is also considered a …
More about this production. John T – Sarnia Excellent performance and stagecraft. M.Burns (Leporello) was great. (I found surprising that Figaro’s farewell appeared in this opera) SSE – Ann Arbor It was wonderful. I was especially impressed by the imaginative and fast scene changes, which allowed this big and uniformly great opera to be …
By Erica Hobbs As the relentless scorned lover of Don Giovanni, some have considered Donna Elvira a mad woman. Despite learning of Don Giovanni’s thousands of conquests, murder and attempted rape, she continues her pursuit of him, convinced he will eventually change his ways and return her love. But Nicole Cabell has a different perspective. …
We’ve added a show! Michigan Opera Theatre is excited to announce that we’ve added Michael Ching’s Buoso’s Ghost to our 2019-20 season! The opera is a sequel (“Schiquel”) to Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and will be performed with the latter Feb. 29 – March 1 at the Macomb Center. Both works are one-act comedies and …
Michigan Opera Theatre thanks you for an extraordinary season!
DETROIT, Mich.–Some novels that are 80+ years or so old and get taught in high school English classes can seem tired and even out of date. But what, in fact, makes them worth reading and teaching year in and year out, is their endurance standing up to the truth decade after decade.
More about this production. Jebl – Huntington Woods Aching with the reality and power of this sorrowful American story. I was positively exhausted and drained with the final notes. I love Opera, was raised on it from childhood beside my Father’s radio. Now, almost 80, I am amazed by the innovative magic of an old story …
While historically a European art form, opera has expanded over the years to include works by composers and librettists from around the globe. These operas explore a broader range of human experiences, including American stories ranging from Civil Rights to baseball to life in Appalachia, often sung in English. In The Grapes of Wrath opera, …
Adults in the opening-night audience gasped, laughed and applauded as this magnificent creation vamped across the stage and even managed a burlesque-type shimmy as she cast one of her horrible spells.
