DETROIT – Dr. David DiChiera is a man who dreams in operatic proportions. Having founded two of the nation's most successful opera companies and transformed a decrepit Detroit movie palace into a ...

David DiChiera, the founder of Michigan Opera Theater, a regional company that attracted world-class talent and became a bastion of culture and a booster of revitalization in a downtown that many had ...

Wayne Brown, who recently retired, started his career in Detroit before returning there to run a transformed Detroit Opera. By David Allen Yuval Sharon’s wildly innovative stagings, already celebrated ...

Carmina Burana was composed by Carl Orff as a grand work for chorus and orchestra. So pleased was Orff after the premiere that he said anything he had written before Carmina could be destroyed. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten years after founding the Industry, America’s most mind-changing opera company, Yuval Sharon in 2020 improbably accepted the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Opera Grand Rapids (OGR) unveiled its trailblazing 2025-26 season, “East Meets Midwest: Celebrating Asian Brilliance and Artists from Michigan,” at its annual gala last week. The ...

Michigan Opera Theatre is changing its name after more than 50 years as a Detroit cultural anchor. Detroit Opera will be the new name when the company returns to the Detroit Opera House after more ...

Wayne Brown, who recently retired, started his career in Detroit before returning there to run a transformed Detroit Opera. Wayne Brown, one of his peers in the opera industry said, “has changed that ...

Detroit Opera President and CEO Wayne S. Brown is stepping down from his position after nine years, according to a job search document obtained by the Detroit Free Press. “The Board, under chair Ethan ...

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is widely considered one of the world’s most beautiful and spectacular musicals. Since 1986, it has played to over 160 million people in 205 cities, 58 territories and 21 ...