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It is unlike any in MOT history: more contemporary, more racially and gender diverse, more unpredictable, more rooted in the marrow of Detroit’s cultural melting pot and physical spaces. The lineup, announced Tuesday, unfurls like a post-pandemic bridge leading back home to the Detroit Opera House next winter for dance and spring for opera. Goerke’s one-nighter opens MOT’s 2021-22 season, the first conceived by Sharon.

Jader Bignamini, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s recently appointed music director, will conduct the MOT Orchestra for the outdoor production.

She stars in a concert version of Mascagni’s tuneful, late-19th-century potboiler “Cavalleria rusticana” on May 15 at the Meadow Brook Amphitheatre in Rochester Hills. Goerke's first performance in her new capacity is just around the corner. MOT officials declined to reveal financial details of Goerke’s contract but said her salary will be paid for by new gifts from a small consortium of MOT board members and trustees. More: Michigan entertainment venues get $3.4 million in COVID-19 relief funding from state I am so pleased for Detroit, for the company, and for the art form.”

“With Yuval as the principal artistic leader of our organization and being joined by the incredible artistry that Christine brings to the conversation. “This is our moment for Detroit,” said MOT president Wayne Brown. MOT’s starry artistic leadership team now packs a one-two punch of breadth and depth that promises to be the envy of opera companies with far greater reputations and budgets. She will perform locally at least once a season, take the lead in casting MOT productions and complement Sharon’s experimental streak with a sensibility forged within the core of the operatic tradition. The move brings a singer at the peak of her international career to Detroit. MOT announced Tuesday the three-year appointment of the American-born Christine Goerke, 51, as associate artistic director. Now MOT has done it again, adding one of the world’s most sought-after dramatic sopranos to its masthead. Michigan Opera Theatre shocked the classical music world last summer when the company hired the visionary and charismatic director Yuval Sharon as artistic director.

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