Twilight: Gods
A drive-in experience of Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung
Performed at the Detroit Opera House Parking Center
October 17, 18, and 20, 2020

Concept, Direction, and English translation by Yuval Sharon
With new narrative poetry by Marsha Music

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 for the Michigan Opera Theatre.

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.

Christine Goerke, Brünnhilde
Sean Pannikar, Siegfried
Morris Robinson, Hagen
Donnie Ray Albert, Alberich
Catherine Martin, Waltraute
Avery Boettcher, Wellgunde
Kaswanna Kanyinda, Flosshilde
TBA, Woglinde

Members of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra

Production design by Jason H. Thompson and Kaitlyn Pietras
Sound design by Mark Grey
Musical arrangement by Ed Windels