Larvik, Norway
© Image courtesy of Michel Thomas
© Image courtesy of Martin Mydtskov Rønne
| Beate Mordal | Various |
| Tuva Semmingsen | Various |
| Magne Fremmerlid | Various |
| Markus Kvint | Piano |
In 1714-16, the young author Ludvig Holberg and his traveling companion Viscount Thott go on a trip to Rome. This becomes the beginning of a long friendship with bitter and unexpected consequences. Viscount Thott is a casanova and a womaniser. He is also an art and book collector, whose enormous library in his palace in Copenhagen at the time of his death contained a number of art treasures as well as a lot of illegal and pornographic literature - all of which he bequeathed to the Royal Danish Library in his will.
Epistle 540: Holberg’s Opera is based on fictional diary notes in which Viscount Thott’s unstoppable appetite for women offers Holberg a commission to write a house opera, which he never completes. However, it drives him into exile for a short period during the winter of 1723.
Herregården i Larvik
