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A part of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle is being performed in an underground car park in Chicago. Instead of walking into the opera house and taking their seats, the audience drives into the underground venue and watches from their cars. The show comes a year after Lyric Opera’s production of the complete Ring cycle was cancelled due to the pandemic. Twilight: Gods, as the production is called, is the brainchild of Yuval Sharon, who premiered it last November in Detroit, where he had just bee...

Mike Silverman This image shows the three Rhinemaidens in a scene from Lyric Opera of Chicagos "Twilight: Gods," an adaptation of Wagners "Götterdämmerung" staged in an underground parking garage in Chicago. (Kyle Flubacker/Lyric Opera of Chicago via AP) April 28, 2021 - 6:28 AM CHICAGO - Amid signs pointing “To Elevator” and advising drivers to “Take Parking Ticket With You,” the Rhinemaidens lament the theft of their gold, Siegfried is murdere...

Chicago stages drive-through Wagner in underground garage Poll Yes Welcome to opera in an underground parking garage. A 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. But instead of walking into the opera house and taking their seats, spectators drive down into the garage and stay in their cars. “Twilight: Gods,” as the production is called, is the brainchild of Y...

Chicago stages drive-through Wagner in underground garage by Mike Silverman, The Associated Press Posted Apr 28, 2021 8:28 am EDT Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 8:44 am EDT This image released by the Lyric Opera of Chicago shows 2,880 battery-powered candles arrayed in an underground parking garage in this scene from Lyric Operas "Twilight: Gods," an adaptation of Wagners "Göttertdämmerung" in Chicago. (Kyle Flubacker/Lyric Opera of Chicago via AP) CHICAGO — Amid signs pointing “To Elevator...