Roberto Kalb

Mexican-born conductor Roberto Kalb was awarded the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award in 2021 and is currently Music Director of the Detroit Opera. He received his training at the University of Michigan and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Recently, Roberto Kalb conducted performances of “West Side Story” (Bernstein) at the Houston Grand Opera, “Siegfried” (Wagner) at the Atlanta Opera, and “La traviata” (Verdi) and “Rinaldo” (Handel) at the Detroit Opera. He also made his debut at the Britt Festival with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México and conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería in a concert with Sir Bryn Terfel. In the current season, Roberto Kalb is making several important debuts, including at the Metropolitan Opera with Puccini's “La Bohème”. He will also make his conducting debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago with “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” by composer Gabriela Lena Frank and conduct Bizet's “Carmen” at the Stuttgart State Opera – his German debut. Other highlights of the season include Roberto Kalb's return to the Atlanta Opera with “Götterdämmerung” (Wagner), Tobias Picker's “Lili Elbe” at the Santa Fe Opera, and a double bill at the Detroit Opera featuring William Grant Still's one-act opera “Highway One” and Kurt Weill's “Down in the Valley”, as well as Puccini's “Madama Butterfly” at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, he will conduct the 16th Opera Gala for German AIDS Foundation.