Sun & Sea - An Opera-Performance

A sunny day on a dreamy, sandy beach. A host of bodies sunbathing, singing, telling their stories, talking in unison and becoming a Chorus. At the crossroads of theatre, music, and visual arts, the visually stunning opera-performance Sun and Sea highlights the connection between realism and poetry in an emotional manner. Or as curator Lucia Pietroiusti puts it: "A chorus of songs: everyday songs, songs of worry and of boredom, songs of almost nothing. And below them: the slow creaking of an exhausted Earth, a gasp".The performance represented Lithuania in the 2019 Venice Biennale, where it won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

Audiences may freely enter and exit the performance venue at all times

Due to the ongoing pandemic, all performance dates are subject to change

 

Concept and development Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, Lina Lapelytė

Director and set designer Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė

Lyrics Vaiva Grainytė

Translator Rimas Užgiris

Composer and music director Lina Lapelytė

Curator Lucia Pietroiusti

Tour producer Aušra Simanavičiūtė

Tour coordinator - Stage manager Erika Urbelevič

Technical director Lique Van Gerven

Visual identity Goda Budvytytė

Catalogue and vinyl concept and design Åbäke

Sound engineer Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas

Live soundtrack Salomėja Petronytė

Singing performers Aliona Alymova, Marco Cisco, Auksė Dovydėnaitė, Saulė Dovydėnaitė, Claudia Graziadei, Artūras Miknaitis, Yates Norton, Vytautas Pastarnokas, Eglė Paškevičienė, Salomėja Petronytė, Kalliopi Petrou, Ieva Skorubskaitė, Svetlana Bagdonaitė, Nabila Dandara Vieira Santos

Performers Raminta Barzdžiukienė, Vincentas Korba, Jeronimas Petraitis, Juozas Petraitis, Pranas Petraitis, Mantas Petraitis, Jonas Statkevičius

Founding producer Neon Realism

Co-producers 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