So much so that all three performances, April 28-May 2, sold out almost immediately, as had all the Detroit shows. “The cancellation of our ‘Ring’ … certainly made it seem particularly appropriate. “He came to me with this amazing, wonderful, crazy idea,” said Anthony Freud, Lyric’s general director.
Using his own English translation, Sharon has distilled the four-hour-plus opera down to six episodes lasting just over an hour all together. It’s a reimagining of “Götterdämmerung,” the final installment in Wagner’s four-part saga of gold, greed and the downfall of the gods. “Twilight: Gods,” as the production is called, is the brainchild of Yuval Sharon, who premiered it last October in Detroit, where he had just been named artistic director of Michigan Opera Theater. But instead of walking into the opera house and taking their seats, spectators drive down into the garage and stay in their cars. Welcome to opera in an underground parking garage.Ī year after Lyric Opera’s production of Richard Wagner’s complete “Ring” cycle was scuttled by the pandemic, the company has brought a bit of the epic back to life. CHICAGO (AP) - Amid signs pointing “To Elevator” and advising drivers to “Take Parking Ticket With You,” the Rhinemaidens lament the theft of their gold, Siegfried is murdered, and Brünnhilde drives off in a red Mustang convertible to redeem the world.
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