Arizona Opera Cast Members & Creatives

Mexican-born conductor Roberto Kalb is the newly appointed music director of Detroit Opera. Kalb makes multiple debuts in the 2022/23 Season, including with the San Francisco Opera, Compañía Nacional de Ópera at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, San Diego Opera, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City. The 2021/22 Season marked a debut with the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, as well as return collaborations with Wolf Trap Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra for La Traviata, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, for the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s Awakenings.

In 2019, Kalb concluded his five season tenure as resident conductor and head of music at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis with a critically acclaimed run of Rigoletto in collaboration with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, which Opera News lauded: “The orchestra sounded sublime under the baton of Roberto Kalb, whose buoyant conducting simultaneously led and followed the singers.”

Additional highlights include productions at the Michigan Opera Theatre, Florida Grand Opera, Tulsa Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera Maine, as well as performances with the Orquesta Carlos Chavez in Mexico City, and the Orquestra Sinfonica da USP in São Paulo. Kalb also worked as cover / assistant conductor for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.

Kalb is one of the recipients of the 2021 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Awards and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Kalb is married to soprano, Mane Galoyan.