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What do ABBA, Brahms, and Mazzoli all have in common? They're all on Stephanie Childress' playlist! Listen to her chat with Detroit Opera Music Director Roberto Kalb during the Pre-Opera Talk before Breaking the Waves.

Artistic Director Yuval Sharon talks with composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek before the premiere of Breaking the Waves in Detroit on April 6, 2024

Director of External Affairs, Arthur White talks with Breaking the Waves composer Missy Mazzoli and Associate Artistic Director Christine Goerke.

“Before the Sunday matinee and final performance, Yuval Sharon, Detroit Opera's Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director, talks with Director of External Affairs Arthur White about his experience producing works by John Cage and how no two performances are ever the same.”

Yuval Sharon, Detroit Opera's Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director, talks with Director of External Affairs Arthur White about John Cage's experience with silence, and producing Europeras and chance operations.

Before the premiere of Detroit Opera's Europeras 3 & 4, Arthur White talks with Detroit Bureau of Sound artist and cactus virtuoso Zac Bru, who explains compositional use of silence in music; and marks the 49th Anniversary of the World Premiere of John Cage's Child of Tree by performing is live on amplified cactus. The piece premiere right across the street in 1975 at Detroit's Music Hall.

“Ok, if we were to say ‘no traditional production’, what would you do?” Stage director Matthew Ozawa talks with Detroit Opera Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director Yuval Sharon about his concept behind his production of Madame Butterfly, before the final performance at the Detroit Opera House. Hosted by Director of External Affairs Arthur White.

Before the second performance of our new production of Madame Butterfly, Director of External Affairs, Arthur White talked with the President of Verdi Opera Theater of Michigan John Zaretti about the origins of the opera’s creation, and Japanese-born conductor Kensho Watanabe about his history with the opera.

Before the premiere of our new production of Madame Butterfly, Director of External Affairs, Arthur White talked with Head of Music Nathalie Doucet and Lighting Designer Yuki Nakase Link about producing a work through a different lens and the challenges for women in the performing arts industry.

Host Arthur White chats with Christine Goerke about Detroit Opera's new production of Madame Butterfly, featuring an interview with stage director Matthew Ozawa.

Pre-Opera Talk from the final performance of Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) with special guests Detroit Opera Music Director Roberto Kale and Fountain of Tears conductor Paolo Bortolameolli, with hosts Andrea Scobie & Arthur White.

Before the second performance of Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar), Andrea Scobie and Arthur White talk with Professor of Spanish Literature as well as a renowned flamenco dancer, Lisa Montes, about the playwright, poet, musician, and revolutionary Federico García Lorca, as well as his influence on the preservation of flamenco.

Director of Education Andrea Scobie and Director of External Affairs Arthur White speak to Detroit Opera Music Director Roberto Kalb and Revival Stage Director James Blaszko about Handel's opera Xerxes before the evening's performance on March 4, 2023

Pre-Opera Talk conversation before premiere performance of Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) with Detroit Opera Artistic Director Yuval Sharon and composer Osvaldo Golijov

Detroit Opera OperaHERE hosts Andrea Scobie and Arthur White dive into the music of the Spanish-language opera with the composer Osvaldo Golijov, as well as the life and work of playwright Federico García Lorca.

Countertenor Key’mon Murrah, who stars in the title role of Xerxes, chats with Detroit Opera’s Andrea Scobie and Arthur White about this role and how gospel music informs his opera performance.

OperaHERE: Aida by Detroit Opera

The opening night pre-opera talk for Detroit Opera's FAUST features Director Lileana Blain-Cruz and Movement Director Raja Feather Kelly; moderated by Director of External Affairs Arthur White, and Director of Education Andrea Scobie.

Hosts Arthur White and Andrea Scobie talk all things Faust and interviews baritone Babatunde Akinboboye

Artistic Director Yuval Sharon chats with Director of Education Andrea Scobie and Director of External Affairs Arthur White about realizing the retro-futuristic opera production of The Valkyries with Richard Wagner's "music of the future".