Twilight: Gods
Michigan Opera Theatre, 2020
Detriot Opera House, Parking Center
Role: Flosshilde
Michigan Opera Theatre is taking opera to a whole new level – literally – with Twilight: Gods, a one-of-a-kind musical experience inside the Detroit Opera House Parking Center! Part live performance, part immersive installation, audiences remain in their cars to experience scenes from the final opera of Wagner’s Ring Cycle on various levels of the parking structure. The “drive-thru” performance features an extraordinary cast in an entirely new light: Christine Goerke, the world’s leading Brünnhilde; internationally-acclaimed tenor Sean Panikkar as Siegfried; and the magnificent bass Morris Robinson as Hagen. Detroit cultural icon Marsha Music performs new poetry that connects Wagner’s mythological world with the here-and-now of our city and our time.
“Mezzo-soprano Kaswanna Kanyinda plays the role of Flosshilde during a drive-in opera performance of Twilight: Gods in the parking structure of the Michigan Opera Theatre in downtown Detroit on October 21, 2020. Groups of vehicles made their way through the structure as people performed 10-minute scenes of the opera on various levels of the parking garage.”
- Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press
Published 12:10 p.m. ET Oct. 30, 2020 | Updated 6:47 p.m. ET Oct. 30, 2020
Avery Boettcher, Olivia Johnson and Kaswanna Kanyinda were gloriously matched as the trio of Rheinmaidens, individual masters of their art creating a wash of harmony.
— Jennifer Goltz of OperaNews (2020)
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