Experience Violetta's fate when Opera Trøndelag stages La Traviata.
An opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
The opera is performed in NORWEGIAN. Translation by Ronald Rørvik and Toni Herlofson.
La Traviata is one of the most performed operas in history, and you can finally experience it in Kimen Cultural Centre, when the fragile and beautiful tones of the overture to La Traviata will fill the auditorium in April & May 2024. We will meet the beautiful Violetta and follow the intense but forbidden love between her and Alfredo. She literally loves her way from a life of luxury at the top of the courtesan heap to a death in oblivion and poverty.
It will be an opera of life and death when Verdi's great masterpiece once again comes to life under the auspices of Opera Trøndelag.
Being able to love who you want
The story of perhaps the most famous companion in opera history, Violetta, is based on a true story and the novel The Lady Camellia by Alexandre Dumas. La Traviata has since become one of the most performed operas in opera literature, and the story is told again and again.
Violetta's exclusion and unfortunate fate have also been easy to recognise for many queer people throughout history. With this as a starting point, director and choreographer Arne Fagerholt has been inspired by contemporary cult phenomena such as ballroom, trans culture and vogueing, known from the HBO series Pose.
The show was first produced in 2022 at Opera Nordfjord
The performance is produced in collaboration with The Opera in Kristiansund
Artistic team
Conductor: Torodd Wigum
Directed by: Arne Fagerholt
Stage design: Yngvar Julin
Costume designer: Nora Furuholmen
Lighting design: Eirik Brenne Torsethaugen
Assistant director: Trude Amalie Leirpoll
Mask designer: Maren Togstad
Choirmaster: Eva Holm Foosnæs
Assistant conductor: Hans Kristian Ven Røstad
Soloists
Violetta: Eir Inderhaug
Alfredo: Markus Pettersson
Germont: Trond Halstein Moe
Dr Grenvil: Trond Gudevold
Annina: Therese-Angelle Khachik
Flora: Maria Dale Johannessen
Baron Duphol: Sverre Johan Aal
Gastone: Eivind Kandal
Giuseppe: Sebastian Lyng Malmo
A waiter: Henrik Renolen
Dancers
Mattis Johannessen
Sindre Fløistad
Mads Marsteen Helde
Gard Bjørnson
Dancers from Stjørdal kulturskole
Bull: Francis Kvernø Sutton
Contributors
Opera Trøndelags Opera Orchestra
Opera Trøndelags Operakor
Opera School
Singing students from NTNU Department of Music