V/S - Versus
Norrlandsoperan
2021
V/S – a comic miniopera in four rounds, about competition, rivelry and sisterhood. It is a new opera about how women in all times and ages has been forced to fight with eachother about the little space they are given. And it is about what happens when they stop fighting.
It travels through time, from Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, via Molière and onwards to the 20th century's stockmarket race and to the final meeting in the boxing ring of the present time. But what happens after that? What occurs when the fighting is over?
V/S is a new opera, based on the opera Kvinnogräl/Women's arguments, by Lars Johan Werle. Additional music by af Malmborg Ward, Verdi, Boccherini, Baudo, Eccles and Nørgård.
Team: Director: Helena Röhr Set and Costume design: Annsofi Nyberg, Lighting design: Johan Jerrskog. Cast: Monica Danielsson, mezzosoprano, Susanna Levonen, soprano, Jonas Olsson, kapellmeister/pianist, Mats Lindström, percussion, My Hellgren and Frida Bromander, celli, Erik Ottosson, contrabas, Fanny Sallinen and Nikki Lindskog stagtechnicians.
