Yuval Sharon stages 12-hour Figaro marathon

From the Detroit Free Press:

Michigan Opera Theatre’s staging of “Bliss,” a unique performance that found singers and an orchestra performing the final scene of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” repeatedly without pause for 12 hours, unfolded from noon to midnight Saturday.

It was far from repetitive, however, as it spanned different parts of its staging area and changed a bit with each run-through. Attendees who stopped in at 2 p.m. got a very different show from people who visited at 5:30, 9 or 11:30.

Director Yuval Sharon made the unconventional even more so by staging the production in the Michigan Theatre building, a 1926 structure that was hollowed out in 1976 and transformed into a four-story parking garage with the ornate staging area, upper balcony, projection booth and lobby left intact.

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Some readers may find the relegation of a fine theatre into a parking garage disturbing.