In his “Europeras,” Cage dismantled centuries of tradition and expectations, for musicians and audiences alike. A rare revival is coming to Detroit. By Joshua Barone The start was typical: Oper ...

Detroit Opera and Cranbrook present an immersive 'musicircus' for America's 250th, exploring what it means to be American.

There are certainly some opera purists who wring their hands over John Cage’s “Europeras 3 & 4.” The piece, which Detroit Opera performs this weekend at the Gem Theatre, is opera as a full-contact ...

Chaotic. Beautiful. Overwhelming. Moving. Those were the four words I wrote down to describe my experience at Apartment House 1776 at Cranbrook Art Museum post-show. The experimental John Cage opera ...

What happens when you put classic European operas into a Mixmaster on stage? You get John Cage’s cycle “Europeras 1-5,” a series of happenings devised between 1987 and 1991. Yuval Sharon’s Detroit ...

Detroit — Ten years after founding the Industry, America’s most mind-changing opera company, Yuval Sharon in 2020 improbably accepted the role of artistic director of Michigan Opera Theatre. He now ...

Jackson Pollock and John Cage are legends in American history. In the centennial year of both artists’ births, two exhibitions now on view in New York celebrate their work and underline the fact that ...