RobertoKalb

Mexican-born conductor Roberto Kalb is Music Director of Detroit Opera, where his contract was recently extended through June 2030.

In the 2026/27 season, Roberto conducts Tosca in a new production at Detroit Opera, where he also leads Fiddler on the Roof. He makes his Théâtre des Champs-Élysées debut conducting a concert performance of La rondine with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, and his Münchner Rundfunkorchester debut in a programme comprising Patrick Harlin’s The Wilderness Anthology, George Walker’s Lyric and Gabriela Lena Frank’s Conquest Requiem. He also returns to Staatsoper Stuttgart for La traviata and conducts La bohème at Seattle Opera.

In the 2025/26 season, Roberto made several important house debuts, conducting La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Carmen at Staatsoper Stuttgart in his German debut. Other highlights 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 William Grant Still’s Highway 1, USA and Kurt Weill’s Down in the Valley at Detroit Opera, and Madama Butterfly at Lyric Opera of Kansas City. On the concert stage, he conducted the Opera Gala for the German AIDS Foundation at Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

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. He is married to soprano, Mane Galoyan.