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In performanceAbout Roberto
A life
in music.
Mexican-born conductor Roberto Kalb is the Music Director of Detroit Opera, with a career spanning the opera house and the concert stage.
His engagements include the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Santa Fe Opera, and leading orchestras in the United States and Mexico.
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Music in motion.
In the press
“His conducting is both polished and dramatically alert, maintaining careful balance between orchestra and singers while preserving the score’s inexorable momentum.”
Paul Hyde / ArtsATL
Götterdämmerung · The Atlanta Opera · June 2026
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