Spectators watch the action through their windshields and listen to the music on their car radios. Many companies have instead reached out to audiences by streaming new content and videos of past performances or presenting opera in outdoor venues.įor Twilight: Gods, nine cars at a time, each paying an entry fee of $125, enter the Millennium Lakeside Parking Garage, a 13-acre underground structure near the shore of Lake Michigan. Still, the total audience for Twilight: Gods will be a fraction of the number who could watch a single performance in the Lyric Opera House, which has a seating capacity of 3,276.īut for now, the house remains closed to live opera, as do other major houses in the US, including New York’s Metropolitan Opera. So much so that all three performances, 28 April - 2 May, 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 instalment 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 Theatre.
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