


It is vaguely similar to the Charleston and to breakdancing, and it’s all about quick feet and legs and nimble knees and arms. Jit dancing, big in Detroit, reads a bit like hip hop. Kenneth Kellogg as The Father in ‘Blue.’ Photo by Mitty Carter. Director Kaneza Schaal said in a panel with music critics before the opera that “great story telling means speaking in many languages.” She and her team put their ears to the ground and shaped Blue into a distinctively Detroit production that invited atypical opera-goers. The Detroit River flowed to the north of the amphitheater-a place where slaves crossed to freedom into Canada-and once, a police boat stopped to listen. The “scenery,” Josh Higgason’s video work that incorporated Hank Willis Thomas’ racially referential artwork, was highly graphic and multidimensional, where performers were occasionally magnified and reflected on vertical panels. Singers were miked, and ramps ran up into the audience where singers sang and Detroit Jit dancers performed, connecting with the spectators. The MOT directors took the risk of the piece being overwhelmed by such a vast space, but MOT, artistically led by the forward-thinking Yuval Sharon, is a gutsy company willing to wrestle with such challenges. If the seating chart on this page isn't quite what you're looking for, you might want to select another Detroit Opera House seating chart from the list above.Michigan Opera Theatre’s production of ‘Blue’ at Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre in Detroit. Detroit Opera House can hold up to 2,700 people but we did not take 2,700 individual photos at Detroit Opera House, so the above seat views should be representative of the section you’re sitting in rather than the specific seat. You can go to our Detroit Opera House seat views page to see them. We try to also provide you with seat views that show you what kind of view you can expect from different parts of the venue. We pride ourselves on producing the best seating charts/seat maps since it can be very difficult to find the right seats without a proper seating chart.

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