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Luciano Pavarotti and Dame Joan Sutherland were just a few of the big names who jetted into Motown in 1996 to attend the opening of the restored Detroit Opera House (1526 Broadway St., 313/237-7464, www.motopera.org).
Designed in 1922 by C. Howard Crane as a vaudeville stage, the 7,000-square-foot theater served as a parking garage for most of the 1970s. David Di Chiera, the former university professor who founded the Michigan Opera Theatre in 1971 as a way to bring opera to kids, did the seemingly impossible when he raised $36 million for the opera’s 2,700-seat new home.
Today, the Detroit Opera House acts as an important cultural resource, luring Broadway musicals as well as opera and ballet productions to Detroit.
by Laura Martone from Moon Michigan, 3rd Edition, © Avalon Travel
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