New Norwegian opera by Therese Ulvo and Marit Eikemo!

Director: Maren Bjørseth
Musical direction: Magnus Loddgard
Scenography/costumes: Olav Myrtved
Lighting design: Norunn Standal

In the roles
Lola: Eli Kristin Hansveen
Politician/Employees: Tone Kummervold
Doctor: Sakarias Tranvåg
Employees: Magne Fremmerlid
Director: Magnus Staveland
Demonstrators: Trondheim Vocal Ensemble

About the opera
A middle-aged, worn-out woman lies in a hotel bed and sleeps. On the bedside table is a bottle of champagne and some glasses. Lola wakes up suddenly and gets up in bed with a roar...

What happened? How did the tired Lola end up in the lovely hotel bed? Is she drunk, again, or is she dead and gone to heaven?

Yes, because she was sick – both she and all her friends on the street. A pandemic had broken out among the city's outcasts, and people feared them more than ever.

But now the wounds are dressed, the sheets are clean and the wine is cold. Lola is in a "Superior comfort room" at Hotel Terminus – with her own account, Lovely Lola, on social media.

With a slanted look at our time
Like a modern-day Holberg's Jeppe, Lola is tricked into a drama with herself in the lead role. The hotel staff want to play a trick on her, and the plastered wounds become distant memories of yesterday, when Lola meets luxury and popularity.

Outside room 314, protesters, commentators and politicians can be heard. And inside Lola is shouting something familiar: a sadness at being abandoned, not being heard, seen and helped when it really mattered.

What responsibility do we have for each other – and what does that mean in our time? What is really sick, and what is healthy? What is real, and what is staged? Terminus asks such questions, without providing clear answers.

Exciting Norwegian artists are behind
Behind this brand new opera is Therese Birkelund Ulvo, one of the country's leading composers. She has previously written works for, among others, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (In the Cage, 2019), the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra (Please don’t Hesitate, 2017) and the Oslo Quartet Series (Dusk Shimmer, 2022). The librettist is Marit Eikemo, known for her clear, socially critical and entertaining pen, in novels such as Team Tuva and in the essay collection Samtidsruinar.

The director is Maren E. Bjørseth, who was behind, among other things, the Lehman trilogy and Romeo and Juliet at Det Norske Teatret, A Christmas Story and All My Sons at the National Theatre, as well as Anna Karenina at Oslo Nye Teater.