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Verdi opens Detroit Opera season with traditional option
As the Toledo Opera rolls out its new season with a traditional performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, about 60 miles up I-75 North, the Detroit Opera opens its season. And for fans who like a traditional take, says Jennifer Melick, the Detroit Opera’s communications and media relations manager, they should travel to the Motor City to see its version of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata before the other productions take a few liberties with Georg Friedrich Handel’s Rinaldo, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. The season ends with Central Park Five, which made its debut in 2019. “For the people that want something a little more traditional, this is the show for them, for sure,” Melick said. “The winter and spring opera season will be more of what you might expect from the company, our identity.” That means the Detroit Opera isn’t afraid to shake the dust off the oldies, those mainstream productions of Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini.
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