Main Street Opera Theatre

01/27/2022

Dreaming of singing in this beautiful theatre in 2023.

06/03/2020

Marian Anderson, Contralto: “Seventy-five years ago, on April 9, 1939, as Hitler's troops advanced in Europe and the Depression took its toll in the U.S., one of the most important musical events of the 20th century took place on the National Mall in Washington. There, just two performers, a singer and a pianist, made musical — and social — history. At 42, contralto Marian Anderson was famous in Europe and the U.S., but she had never faced such an enormous crowd. There were 75,000 people in the audience that day, and she was terrified. Later, she wrote: "I could not run away from this situation. If I had anything to offer, I would have to do so now."”- Susan Stamberg, NPR Morning Edition 2014

02/09/2020

Join us TODAY in Canton at the Evola Recital Hall at 2pm. Tickets will be available at the door.

02/08/2020

Join us tomorrow at 2pm for our next Bella Voce concert featuring Tickets are available at the door and online.

02/06/2020

Get your tickets today for Sunday's concert at 2pm!

Join Main Street Opera Theatre for an afternoon performance in the beautiful recital hall at Evola Music in Canton. These concerts will highlight the beauty of the human voice and its partnership with the pianoforte. Adult tickets are $20 each. Students under 18 are free with the purchase of an adul...

01/28/2020

Join us on Sunday, February 9th at 2pm in the lovely Evola Recital Hall in Canton.

01/26/2020

Our February 9th concert will feature Elizabeth Mitchell and Leslie Mason.

ELIZABETH MITCHELL, Mezzo-Soprano, is a versatile performer whose repertoire ranges from opera to musical theater to art song. Nationally, she has sung with companies including Opera Western Reserve, Ohio Light Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Utah Opera, Michigan Philharmonic, Orchestra Sono, Arbor Opera Theater, Comic Opera Guild, and Main Street Opera Theatre. In 2014, Elizabeth made her international debut with Oper Im Park in St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria and returned in 2015. Ms. Mitchell was recently nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical by the 2019 BroadwayWorld Detroit Regional Awards for her portrayal of Marmee in Little Women with One Off Productions. Other favorite past roles include Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw, Dorabella in Cosí fan tutte, Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance, Die Knusperhexe and Die Mutter in Hänsel und Gretel, Marie in The Most Happy Fella and Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn in The Music Man. She can also be heard as Mrs. VanDare on Ohio Light Opera’s recording of The Firefly (Albany Records) and A Thorn Among Roses (Vivo Productions), the Dodworth Duo’s debut album released in 2017. Ms. Mitchell received her B.M. from the University of Utah and her M.M. from the University of Michigan, both in Vocal Performance and with scholarship. Awards: Utah District Finalist, Metropolitan Opera Competition; International Finalist, Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers; Semi-Finalist, International Czech and Slovak Competition.

01/25/2020

Our February 9th concert will feature Leslie Mason and Elizabeth Mitchell.

https://a2tix.com/events/bella-voce-concert-2-9-2020

Leslie Mason, spinto soprano, has been described as having a voice that hits you like a canon yet she also has the ability to sing soft, beautiful and every hue in between an instant later. Leslie is based in Detroit and regularly appears with the company Opera MODO, where she performed the title role in La Gioconda. “Mason is sublime in the title role. She varies her vocals across a spectrum of emotions, and her belts lifted me out of my seat in a most wonderful way. Her final moments in Act 4 with the lecherous Barnaba is the stuff of opera you do not forget” – David Kiley of Encore Michigan.
Ms. Mason has also performed Miss Jessel in Britten’s Turn of the Screw, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Lady Billows in Albert Herring and Micaela in Carmen with Opera MODO. Other favorite roles include the title role of Puccini’s Tosca and Leonora in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino.
Leslie has appeared on stages around the world including concerts in Graz, Austria, Carnegie Hall, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit Boxing Club, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Faculty Recital Series, and has appeared in recital in various metropolitan churches in Detroit just to name a few.
Ms. Mason holds a Masters of Music in vocal performance from Bowling Green State University where she was granted a full tuition fellowship as a young artist with Toledo Opera. She received a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from Eastern Michigan University where she received the prestigious undergraduate symposium award.
Ms. Mason holds a certificate from the world renowned American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria where she was one of the youngest students to win a spot in their opera program in her year of attendance. Leslie has also won first prize and audience choice awards two years in a row in Opera MODO’s Detroit Aria Competition.
In addition to her regular performance schedule, Ms. Mason currently sings with Fort Street Church in Detroit, Opera lite, Greenfield Village and participates in recitals all over Michigan. Ms. Mason also performs classic jazz with her husband Jesse. They have four children who, according to Jesse, “have their mother’s pipes.” Ms. Mason is a private voice instructor of nearly 30 wonderful students and has also enjoyed spending the past 12 summers on the voice faculty at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp teaching young students about singing, opera, jazz and music theory.