Drive-through opera staged in underground car park
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 been named artistic director of Michigan Opera Theatre. It is a reimagining of the final instalment in ...