Pre-Dance Talk: Complexions Contemporary Ballet (Night Two) by Detroit Opera

Pre-Dance Talk: Complexions Contemporary Ballet (Night One) by Detroit Opera

Host Kim Smith, Dance Administrator, will be joined by guests Marcy Harriell, Lead Vocalist, and Nancy Umanoff, Executive Director of Mark Morris Dance Group.

Host Kim Smith, Dance Administrator, will be joined by guest Ethan Iverson, Arranger and Pianist.

Host Arthur White, Director of Community and Audience Engagement and guests Roberto Kalb, Music Director, and Suzanne Mallare Acton, Chorus Master.

Host Arthur White, Director of Community and Audience Engagement and guests Jack Blaszkiewicz, Wayne State Assistant Professor of Music History, and Suzanne Mallare Acton, Chorus Master.

Host Arthur White, Director of Community and Audience Engagement and guests Yuval Sharon, Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director, and Roberto Kalb, Music Director.

Host Arthur White, Detroit Opera's Director of Community and Audience Engagement, chats with Director Francesca Zambello about her production of La traviata, Detroit Opera's Music Director Roberto Kalb discusses Verdi's music, and we hear from a psychologist about the underlying tensions throughout the work. Arthur is joined by Nathalie Doucet, Detroit Opera's Head of Music and Director of the Detroit Opera Resident Artist Program—all five RAs are featured in the opera!

Take a listen and prepare for elegance, grandeur, and of course, DRAMA, in Detroit Opera's La traviata. October 19-27 at the Detroit Opera House. detroitopera.org

“That is at the core of what Janáček is about. He’s not trying to create opera that feels completely out of touch from everyday people.” Detroit Opera’s Artistic Director Yuval Sharon, who staged this multimedia production of The Cunning Little Vixen as its Detroit Opera premiere with these performances, chats with host Arthur White and our Music Director Roberto Kalb before the final matinee.

“Everyone here plays an important role, but one of the main characters is the orchestra.” Music Director Roberto Kalb describes the work it takes to bring The Cunning Little Vixen to the Detroit Opera House stage for the first time; while Czech specialist Timothy Cheek helps the pre-opera talk audience to pronounce the composer’s name - Janáček - hosted by Director of External Affairs Arthur White.