DETROIT OPERA HOUSE

The 'Detroit Opera House' is an opera house located in Detroit, Michigan. It is the venue for all Michigan Opera Theatre productions and other events.
The Opera House was designed by C. Howard Crane, the same man who designed other Detroit theatres such as The Fillmore Detroit, Fox Theater and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Orchestra Hall noted for its acoustic perfection. It opened on January 22, 1922.

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History

The Capitol Theater was the first of several performance venues built around Detroit's Grand Circus Park. When it opened, the theater was the fifth-largest in the world, being able to hold up to 4,250 people. The Capitol Theater's name was changed to the Paramount Theater in 1929, and again changed in 1934 to the Broadway Capitol Theater.
Artists that performed in the building's first few decades included jazz legends Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. A minor restoration ensued in the 1960s, and it became the Grand Circus Theater, a 3,367 seat movie house. After closing in 1978, reopening in 1981 and closing again in 1985, Grand Circus Theater was finally adopted by the formerly peripatetic Michigan Opera Theater in 1988, at which point the name was changed to the Detroit Opera House.
The building underwent an extensive restoration in the early 2000s and is now configured with seating for 2,700. Recently, the opera house has been annually hosting five opera productions, five dance productions from touring companies and a small number of other musical and comedy events.

See also

★ Nederlander Theater

References

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External links

★ Detroit Opera House official site

★ Nederlander Detroit