Michigan Opera Theatre: The DiChiera Legacy
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (856 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 069279493X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 138 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the Author Timothy Paul Lentz is the Archivist and Historian at the Michigan Opera Theatre. He has been involved with archiving and chronicling the history of the opera company since 1991. He is also director of the Dance and Opera Resource Library and Michigan Opera Theater Archive at the Detroit Opera House. His essay "The History of Michigan Opera Theatre", which was included in the David DiChiera 2013 Eminent Artist monograph, was awarded a first place for feature writing by the Society of Professional Journalists/Detroit Chapter
He is also director of the Dance and Opera Resource Library and Michigan Opera Theater Archive at the Detroit Opera House. Timothy Paul Lentz is the Archivist and Historian at the Michigan Opera Theatre. . His essay "The History of Michigan Opera Theatre", which was included in the David DiChiera 2013 Eminent Artist monograph, was awarded a first
The Impresario, and civic leader extraordinaire was stepping aside and the company he founded was in excellent shape with a bright and sustainable future, with a beautiful world-class home in the Detroit Opera House. It was a civic contribution of the highest order. In the spring of 2017 David DiChiera's nearly sixty-year tenure as the guiding spirit of opera in southeast Michigan came to an end with his retirement from Michigan Opera Theatre. Reflecting back, in 1982, he was quoted: "Detroit was the fifth largest city in the nation and the only major city without an opera company. He has been the heartbeat of the company for nearly fifty years, and it has indeed been a triumph, of and for regional opera as well as for the city of Detroit.. In the first era of this opera company the names David DiChiera and Michigan Opera Theatre are completely intertwined, essentially synonymous. He arrived in southeast Michigan in the fall of 1962 as an assistant professor of music at Oakland University because he saw the opportunity to build programs. It was the end of the first great era of Michigan Opera Theatre's history and the time is ripe to get the story int