Sharon has directed and produced new operas in moving vehicles, operating train stations, Hollywood sound stages, and various “non-spaces” such as warehouses, parking lots, and escalator corridors. Wasserman Artistic Director of Michigan Opera Theatre. He is founder and Artistic Director of The Industry in Los Angeles and the newly appointed Gary L. Yuval Sharon has amassed an unconventional body of work that expands the operatic form. For our full COVID-19 Policy, please click here. Masks required unless actively eating or drinking. This production is the first to stage La bohème in reverse, marking an impressive creative milestone for Detroit Opera as part of our vision for The Next 50. Presented in the Detroit Opera House in a co-production with Boston Lyric Opera and Spoleto Festival USA, this bold, unconventional take on Puccini’s opus is itself a bohemian work of art: experimental, nonconforming, original. Our favorite starving young artists and lovers survive to hope another day.

From finish to start, from death to the promise of new love, from loneliness and despair to the joy of friendships, wine, and song, this reversal presents the characters and arias we love in a refreshing, new vision of the story.

How do we go from tragedy to hope? From death to life? From loneliness to love? In this visionary treatment of Puccini’s opus La bohème, Detroit Opera does just that - by presenting the opera in reverse order.

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