![]() In spite of revenue pressures, MOT had to be inventive to maintain a connection with its audiences over the past year, Brown said. But the pandemic has proven the importance of MOT moving more quickly on that front than it might otherwise have done, he said. There are cost considerations, given that digital programs require another skill-set for staff and additional investment in the artistic work being created. Going forward, a digital platform has to be included within MOT's business model, Brown said. It also began offering monthly "Dance Dialogues" conversations with leading dancers from companies around the world. It did, however, launch some digital programming across its social media platforms late last summer with "MOT at Home," leveraging relationships it has with artists near and far to bring virtual interviews to its patrons, recitals and short segments from existing operas and aria. Unlike the Detroit Symphony Orchestra or the Metropolitan Orchestra and others nationally, MOT didn't have a digital platform it could activate when in-person performances came to a halt. MOT is looking at venues in Wayne and Oakland counties, he said, but declined to say in advance of the upcoming announcement on the new season if the Detroit Opera House Parking Center will reprise its role as stage to a production this year. Though MOT doesn't plan to host programs at the Detroit Opera House until then, Broadway in Detroit is renting the venue for its Detroit presentation of "Disney Frozen" as part of its 2021-22 series through a venue rental agreement, with exact dates yet to be announced, Maxwell Bolton, MOT's director of marketing and communications said. In-person productions will return to the Detroit Opera House in spring 2022, Brown said. ![]() "Usually, we would start the season in the fall, but we're going to leverage good weather conditions," President and CEO Wayne Brown said. It plans in mid-March to announce in-person performances at outdoor venues for May-September. MOT is looking at outdoor venues in the region that would lend themselves to opera, while providing room for social distancing. Nearly a year after its stage went dark because of the coronavirus outbreak, the Michigan Opera Theatre is making plans to bring back in-person performances this year on a new stage.
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