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El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego - (El último sueño de Frida y Diego) Gabriela Lena Frank, San Francisco Opera

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  • The Lyric Opera’s most recent version..is refreshingly unfussy from both a musical and a dramatic standpoint. It featured exceptional musical direction from conductor Roberto Kalb, a newcomer who made the Kansas City Symphony sound warm and vibrant."
    Paul Horsley
  • "Roberto Kalb drew a sensitive and lush performance from the San Diego Symphony, highlighting the sadness and despair in the score and providing impeccable support to the singers."
    Jordon Julien
  • "Roberto Kalb exerted complete mastery in his clear and concise conducting, which inspired superior music-making from his cast and orchestra. This is a very demanding score, and Maestro Kalb managed to withdraw the highest level of accomplishment from the members of Saint Louis Symphony in the pit. He was also a sensitive and conscientious partner to the singers on stage, cuing them tirelessly through the knottier passages, and evoking meaningful musico-dramatic commentary with a skillful baton technique"
    James Sohre
  • "Conductor Roberto Kalb’s still lighter touch was an even greater asset as he drew a refreshingly translucent reading of the score from the National Symphony Orchestra. I have never heard the sinister waltzes and multi-layered rhythms more clearly articulated, the leitmotivs more satisfyingly unfurled. Brisk and user-friendly, Kalb’s reading thwarted the “damask and dark” quality of Jonathan Tunick’s orchestration and singed with new verve."
    Harry Rose
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Civic & Ryan Opera Center, Various

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Příhody lišky Bystroušky (The Cunning Little Vixen), Janáček

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Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), Rossini

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Beyond The Pit, Various

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Handel's Messiah, Händel

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Rigoletto, Verdi

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Civic & Ryan Opera Center, Various

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  • Příhody lišky Bystroušky Janáček
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Příhody lišky Bystroušky (The Cunning Little Vixen), Janáček

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Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), Rossini

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Beyond The Pit, Various

Detroit Opera

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  • Handel's Messiah: Messiah Händel
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Handel's Messiah, Händel

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L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love), Donizetti

Santa Fe Opera
C: Roberto KalbD: Stephen Lawless

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Santa Fe, United States (Crosby Theatre)

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Santa Fe, United States (Crosby Theatre)

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Santa Fe, United States (Crosby Theatre)

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Santa Fe, United States (Crosby Theatre)
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La Traviata (La traviata), Verdi

Detroit Opera
C: Roberto KalbD: Francesca Zambello

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Detroit, United States (Detroit Opera House)

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Detroit, United States (Detroit Opera House)

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Detroit, United States (Detroit Opera House)
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West Side Story, Bernstein

Houston Grand Opera
C: Roberto KalbD: Francesca Zambello

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Louisville, United States (Brown Theater)

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Louisville, United States (Brown Theater)

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Louisville, United States (Brown Theater)

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Louisville, United States (Brown Theater)

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Louisville, United States (Brown Theater)

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Louisville, United States (Brown Theater)
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El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego - (El último sueño de Frida y Diego) Gabriela Lena Frank, San Francisco Opera

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Mexican-born conductor Roberto Kalb is the newly appointed music director of Detroit Opera. He makes multiple debuts in the 2022-2023 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 2021-2022 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 Orch

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