First Music Soiree at former Michigan Theatre in 45 years!

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This one must have gone under the radar, because I'm sure some DYESers would have gone there...

On Saturday September 25, 2021, Michigan Opera Theatre held a special repeating Opera event, but not at the Detroit Opera House. Instead an event called BLISS was staged on the 3rd [top] parking level inside the former Michigan Theatre on Bagley Ave.

This was the first musical event held within what is now the shell of the former theatre in over 45 years. There hasn't been music [except for Eminem's 8 MILE rapper scene back in 2000] in the Michigan since the 1974-76 Michigan Palace era before the unthinkable event of the gutting of the former 4050 seat movie palace starting in March 1977.

The BLISS event was a 12 hour repetition of the finale of Mozart's MARRIAGE OF FIGARO opera, a repeat of an event that was previously done in NYC in 2011 and Los Angeles in 2019.

One would think that the free event would be monotonous and boring, but one Opera reviewer didn't think so. This was free to the public, and there was a continuous coming and going of people watching the operatic and symphonic performance over the 12 hour event.

https://van-magazine.com/mag/ragnar-kjartansson-bliss/