Announcing
our NEW
casual dining menu:

(John the Baptist) on June 3, 7 and 10,
The role of Cinderella will be
and
baritone Jeffrey Kneebone takes
sung by Vivica Genaux on May 13,
the role June 4 and 9.
17 and 20 and by Peiye Wang
Returning for his
at the May 14 matinee and
annual
stint as a direc-
on May 19. Jewish direc-
tor
of
at
least one MOT
tor Mark Streshinsky_helms
production
is Jewish
the production. A member
director
Bernard
Uzan,
of the San Francisco Opera
who
is
general
and
staff, Streshinsky has directed
artistic director of
Cinderella several times. pre-
L'Opera de Montreal. He
viously, as well as a variety of
Set and costume
made his MOT debut
productions with other com-
designer Allen
with Faust in 1983.
panies.
Charles Klein
MOT will end the spring sea-
son with the controversial and
powerful Salome. The libretto,
Michigan Opera Theatre's
translated into German from the orig-
spring season begins with
inal French of Oscar Wilde, has raised
Verdi's Aida 8 p.m. Saturday,
eyebrows since its world premiere in
April 22, at the Detroit Opera
1905. A combination of nudity, sexu-
House, 1526 Broadway. Aida
ality, death by beheading and biblical
continues 2 p.m. Sunday, April
subject matter — though only loosely
23; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April
related to the Bible — led censors to
26; 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday,
ban it from the London and Berlin
April 28-29; and 2 p.m. Sunday,
stages for many years.
April 30.
American audiences were so scan-
Rossini's Cinderella plays 8
dalized by the Metropolitan Opera's
p.m. Saturday, May 13; 2 p.m.
first performance of Salome that
Sunday, May 14; 7:30 p.m.
the company closed the production,
Wednesday, May 17; and 8 p.m.
leading to its absence from the stage
Friday-Saturday, May 19-20.
for 27 years. "However, modern audi-
Strauss' Salome will be
ences have embraced the opera for
staged 8 p.m. Saturday, June
what it is — exceptional music and
3; 2 p.m. Sunday, June 4; 7:30
dynamic drama;' DiChiera points out.
p.m. Wednesday, June 7; and
Set in 30 C.E. in the court of Herod,
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, June
tetrarch of Judea, the opera features
9-10.
sensuous and dynamic music, includ-
Tickets, at $23-$113, at the
ing Salome's famous Dance of the
Detroit
Opera House ticket
The
desperate
diva
Seven Veils.
office, (313) 237-SING or
will be played by American soprano
www.MichiganOpera.org , or at
Marquita Lister on June 3, 7 and 10
Ticketmaster outlets,
and by soprano Eilana Lappalainen
(248) 645-6666 or
on June 4 and 9. Bass baritone Greer
.
www.ticketmaster.com
Grimsley performs as Jochanaan

Decade Of Growth

Cohen, Handleman centers to open.

T

he Margo V. Cohen Center
for Dance and the Marion
and David Handleman
Learning Studio are among sev-
eral features of the Detroit Opera
House's new $9.5 million Ford
Center for Arts and Learning to be
dedicated with an open house and
special concert Thursday,• April 27.
The center. is located in a six-
story Broadway-Street office
tower of the opera house that
has been vacant since the mid-
1970s. The Ford Center puts
total construction cost of the
_ • opera house complex at close to
$80 million. MOT is now ranked
,, among the nation's 10 largest

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opera companies (by audience
and annual operating budget).
The concert will feature nine
artists from Aida, singing arias
from a variety of operas. They
will be accompanied by pianist
Danielle Orlando.

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Bill Carroll

The dedication and open
house for the Ford Center
for Arts and Learning, with
free tours and refreshments,
takes place 4 to 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 27.
The concert is at 7:30 p.m.,
with tickets from $10-$35.
(313) 237-SING.

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30005 Orchard Lake Rd.
North of 13 Mile Rd. • Farmington Hills

(248) 932-9999

43080 Garfield Rd.

51195 Schoenherr

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North of 23 Mile Rd. • Shelby Township

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