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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Luciano Pavarotti kept a promise on 21 April 1996: he had told impresario David DiChiera he would open Detroit's opera house, and he sang its reopening gala in a movie palace that had been left for dead a decade earlier. The Detroit Opera House at 1526 Broadway, on Grand Circus Park downtown, opened on 22 January 1922 as the Capitol Theatre, designed by C. Howard Crane - the architect behind the Fox Theatre, The Fillmore and the acoustically famed Orchestra Hall. At its premiere the 3,500-seat I...