Roberto Kalb.

Mexican-born conductor Roberto Kalb is Music Director of Detroit Opera, with his tenure extended through June 2030.

The 2026–2027 season brings a new production of Tosca and performances of Fiddler on the Roof at Detroit Opera, a return to Staatsoper Stuttgart for La traviata, and La bohème at Seattle Opera.

He makes his Théâtre des Champs-Élysées debut with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine in a concert performance of La rondine. His first appearance with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester features Patrick Harlin’s The Wilderness Anthology, George Walker’s Lyric, and Gabriela Lena Frank’s Conquest Requiem.

In 2025–2026, he made house debuts at the Metropolitan Opera conducting La bohème, the Lyric Opera of Chicago for El último sueño de Frida y Diego, and Staatsoper Stuttgart conducting Carmen in his German debut.

Other highlights of that season included his return to Atlanta Opera for Götterdämmerung, the US premiere of Tobias Picker’s Lili Elbe at Santa Fe Opera, a double bill of Still’s Highway 1, U.S.A. and Weill’s Down in the Valley with Detroit Opera, and Madama Butterfly with Lyric Opera of Kansas City. He also led the German AIDS Foundation’s Opera Gala at Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

In 2024–2025, he led performances of West Side Story for his house debut with Houston Grand Opera, Siegfried with Atlanta Opera, and La traviata and Rinaldo with Detroit Opera. He also made his debut at the Britt Festival and with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, and led the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería in concert with Sir Bryn Terfel.

In 2021, Roberto was awarded a Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Based in Detroit, Michigan, he is married to soprano Mané Galoyan.