With an orchestra pit full of water (complete with a piano floating in it!), mold on the theatre seats, destroyed plaster, and crumbling walls, it would take millions of dollars and eight years before the restored Detroit Opera House would welcome its first audiences.ĭr. Three years later, David DiChiera would tour the abandoned facility and select it as the site of a grand new home for opera in Detroit.īut that dream was still a long way off. Howard Crane, the theatre was, at the time of its gala premiere, the fifth largest in the world, and had been constructed with superb acoustics in the style of the grand European opera houses.Īfter 63 years of presenting both live performance and film, a fire led to the theatre’s closing in 1985. Designed by renowned Detroit architect C.
Located on the corners of Broadway Street and Madison Street, the building now known as the Detroit Opera House first opened in 1922 as the Capitol Theatre.
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