Detroit Opera House Parking Center
Detroit, Michigan
October 17-20, 2020

Additional Performances at the Millennium Lakeside Parking Garage
Chicago, Illinois
April 28-May 2, 2021

Concept, Direction, and English translation: Yuval Sharon
With new narrative poetry: Marsha Music (Detroit) and Avery R. Young (Chicago)
Production Designer: Jason H. Thompson and Kaitlyn Pietras
Sound Designer: Mark Grey (Detroit)
Additional Music: Lewis Pesacov (Chicago)
Musical arrangement and orchestration: Ed Windels
Members of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra (Detroit) and Lyric Opera Orchestra (Chicago)

Conceived and directed by Sharon, Twilight: Gods is a site-specific adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung—the Twilight of The Gods—staged in the Detroit Opera House Parking Center (Michigan Opera Theatre) and Millennium Lakeside Parking Garage (Lyric Opera of Chicago).

Inspired as much by the brutal utilitarianism of the parking facility as the safety precautions of the coronavirus era, Twilight: Gods transforms Wagner’s six-hour masterpiece into an hour-long series of dioramic scenes performed in intervals throughout the Parking Center. Equal parts drive-in theater and opera house event, Twilight: Gods gives audience members the opportunity to watch Wagner’s drama unfold scene-by-scene from the safety of their cars, while the live performance (sung in English) is broadcast to car stereos—a full immersion in the world of the Ring.

Twilight: Gods is a collaboration between Michigan Opera Theatre and Lyric Opera of Chicago

Photography provided courtesy of Detroit Opera House.