A mixtape opera about the yearning for home

is an opera about the town of Stuttgart and the people who live here. It tells the stories of nine people who set off together on a road trip heading south. The price for the journey: a song. Nostalgia and dreams, tragedies and comic situations, rituals and linguistic diversity – it all comes together in a poetic, surreal mixtape opera. Croatian composer Sara Glojnarić met people who all have settled in the Stuttgart area since the 1950s – and she listened to them. The result is a cross-generational songbook of the City. Can an old, dusted-off LP sleeve bring memories to life across countries and generations? Station Paradiso seeks a sense of feeling at home in all these stories that are set between the Stuttgart bus station, Anatolia and Naples. Stories that have never before been told on an opera stage.