The Detroit Opera House, opened on January 22, 1922 as the Capitol Theater, is the current venue for all Michigan Opera Theatre productions. The Opera House was designed by C. Howard Crane, the same man who designed other Detroit theatres such as the State Theater, Fox Theater and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Orchestra Hall, noted for it's acoustic perfection. This article refers to the largest city of Michigan. ... January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) was founded in 1914. ...
History
Opened at the corner of Broadway and Madison in 1922 as the Capitol Theater, the Opera House was the first of many performance venues build around Detroit's Grand Circus Park. When it opened, the Opera House was the fifth-largest theater in the world, being able to hold up to 4,250 guests. 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 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 would finally be adopted in 1988 by the formerly roaming Michigan Opera Theater, becoming known by its current name, the Detroit Opera House. Louis Armstrongs stage personality matched his flashy trumpet as captured in this photo by William P. Gottlieb. ... Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington (Born: April 29, 1899 in Washington, DC – Died: May 24, 1974 in New York City) was an American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader. ...
Designed by renowned Detroit architect C. Howard Crane, whose genius for the theater design took him to cities around the nation, the building was constructed with superb acoustics and the style of the grand European operahouses.
In the fall of 1929, the Capitol Theater became the paramount Theater and, in 1934, was renamed the Broadway Capitol Theater.
Michigan Opera Theatre, cited by the Detroit media as "one of the city's cultural jewels," is the State of Michigan's premiere opera company serving as a state-wide cultural resource committed to producing the very best professional productions from the grand opera, operetta, musical theater and ballet repertory.
As of 2005, Detroit ranked as the United States's 11th most populous city with 886,675 residents; this is half of the peak population it boasted in the 1950s, and Detroit leads the nation in terms of declining urban population.
Detroit fell to British troops during the War of 1812 in the Siege of Detroit, was recaptured by the United States in 1813 and incorporated as a city in 1815.
Detroit was the former home of a round of the Formula One World Championship, which held the race on the streets of downtown Detroit from 1982 until 1988, after which the sanction moved from Formula One to Indycars until its final run in 2001.
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