Violetta Takes the Bus

What happens when opera's Violetta boards a bus - seconds before she falls helplessly for Alfredo? She is dying, but now she wants to live. Violetta from Verdi's La Traviata is one of the passengers, and as familiar places pass by outside the bus window, she sings out her pain and longing.

The opera platform SAD GIRLS creates together with Riksteatern an opera that cuts close, where Verdi's melodies meet a contemporary electronic soundscape with new music by Joel Janson Johansen and a new libretto by Sanna Strandberg Colling.

Performance length: 1 hour

Music: Joel Janson Johansen, Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Sanna Strandberg Colling, Francesco Maria Piave
Concept and direction: Sanna Strandberg Colling
Costume design and scenography: Toni Tora Botwid
Light design: Thabiso K. Persson
Dramaturgy: Felicia Ohly

Violetta: Elisabeth Meyer
Alfredo: Daniel Rosenberg
Musicians: Benjamin Lavén

A co-production with SAD GIRLS.