Sun & Sea
The international music theatre hit and award-winning opera performance
Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė & Lina Lapelytė (LT)
Imagine a beach – you on it, or better still, watching from above – the burning sun, sunscreen and sweaty palms and legs. Watching from scaffolding above the stage, the audience looks down on a sandy beach, sunbathing vacationers, a mosaic of towels, bright bathing suits, children and toys. Their everyday thoughts, seemingly banal, reveal an underlying anxiety around climate breakdown – reminding us of our own inability to face it.
The internationally acclaimed award-winning opera performance Sun & Sea, by the Lithuanian artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, has been celebrated for its humorous, powerful, and timely depiction of urgent contemporary issues.
“People were queueing up in New York and a great many other cities. Visual art critics sang the performance’s praises into the sky. O. discovered the three makers a good while ago. The festival introduced them to the public with the successful supermarket opera Have A Good Day in 2017.” – Joost Heijthuijsen (dramaturg O.)
Concept and development: Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė
Director and set designer: Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė
Lyrics: Vaiva Grainytė
Composer and music director: Lina Lapelytė
Curator: Lucia Pietroiusti
Tour producer: Aušra Simanavičiūtė
Production manager / stage manager: Erika Urbelevič
Technical director: Lique Van Gerven
Libretto translation (from Lithuanian into English): Rimas Užgiris
Sound engineer: Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas
Singing performers: Elena Alymova, Milda Andrijauskaitė-Bakanauskienė, Teresė Andrijauskaitė, Marco Cisco, Svetlana Bagdonaitė, Nabila Dandara, Daniel Monteagudo Garcia, Claudia Graziadei, Artūras Miknaitis, Vytautas Pastarnokas, Eglė Paškevičienė, Lucas Lopes Pereira, Salomėja Petronytė
Performers: Raminta Barzdžiukienė, Vincentas Korba, Jonas Statkevičius, and others
Visual identity: Goda Budvytytė
Produced by Sun&Sea (Lithuania)
Founding Producer: Neon Realism (Lithuania)
Coproducers: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Goethe-Institut, Münchner Kammerspiele, National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, The Momentary, Arkansas
Sponsor: JCDecaux
Commissioner (Sun & Sea (Marina), Venice, 2019): Rasa Antanavičiūtė
Founding Patrons (Sun & Sea (Marina), Venice, 2019): Lithuanian Council for Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Laurenz Foundation in Basel, Vilnius City Municipality
