Sun & Sea

Sun & Sea

libretto Vaiva Grainytė direction Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė musical direction Lina Lapelytė

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12/10 - 23/10/22
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Montjuïc. Sala Fabià Puigserver

Show completed

Timetable

Itinerant continuous session.
Audience entrance every 30' from 18:00
Last show at 21:00

Running time

50' approx.

Place

Sala Fabià Puigserver

Language

In English. Libretto in Catalan and Spanish available

Price

€10 - €29

Accessibility

Hearing assistance via mobile phone

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You’re gonna have to do this!

From Lithuania, the stage version of the installation-opera-performance on the climate crisis by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė, which received the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale.

On a sandy beach lit by artificial sun, people in swimsuits enjoy a typical day at the beach. They sunbathe, read, play and talk as the audience walks along a walkway and watches them from above. This completely banal and everyday situation is transformed when the music starts. The songs reveal a number of both individual and collective concerns: from burned skin as a result of too much exposure to the sun, to fear of an environmental catastrophe. Frivolous micro-stories gradually make way for much more serious subjects and individual songs, and a universal chorus that addresses global concerns. 

Sun & Sea is the stage version of the installation-opera-performance presented by the official Lithuanian pavilion at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale. The project, by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė (a film and theatre director and visual artist), Vaiva Grainytė (writer, playwright and poet) and Lina Lapelytė (musician and composer), won the Golden Lion for the best national participation. The project is a critical proclamation against the climate crisis which combines an artistic installation and theatrical performance. 

Sun & Sea is the second collaboration between the three artists. Their contemporary opera for 10 cashiers, supermarket sounds and piano Have a Good Day!- created between 2011 and 2013 and still touring the world - won six international awards in Europe. It has toured more than twenty festivals and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and the Lithuanian National Radio.


WHAT THE PRESS SAID

"This is not the only work of the Venice Art Biennale that deals with the effects of climate change, but it is the one that has surprised the most by its originality. Up to three hours have been queued to access the Lithuanian pavilion grounds to watch Sun & Sea." Ópera actual - Lourdes Morgades

"Sun & Sea is an allegory of gross inaction: While the world dies, we remain inert, basking in the burning sun. [···] Barzdžiukaitė reorients viewers’ habitual perspective, placing us in an atypical position. [···] As we gaze down at them from above, the proposition that technology will save us appears a cruel irony. Perhaps Sun & Sea (Marina) is not an opera after all, but a requiem." Artforum - Erika Balsom

“A mini biopsy of human existence, under a bright light like on a petri-dish.”
Przekrój - Kristina Sabaliauskaitė

“A masterpiece for the era of climate change.”
The New York Times - Joshua Barone

“One of the greatest achievements in performance of the last 10 years.”
The New York Times - Jason Farago

“A lament to the eclipse of the world…”
The Guardian - Searle Adrian

“A haunting manifestation of our messed up relationship with our planet.”
Time Out London - Andrzej Lukowski

“An intensely beautiful experience.”
Financial Times - Sarah Hemming

Signs of the Apocalypse on the Beach. An interview with Vaiva Grainytė, Lina Lapelytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė. echo gone grown - Agnė Sadauskaitė

Art & Ecology.An interview with curator Lucia Pietroiusti. Berlinartlirik - Aoife Donnellan

SINGING PERFORMERS

Elena Alymova

Milda Andrijauskaitė-Bakanauskienė

Teresė Andrijauskaitė

Marco Cisco

Gabija Damanskytė

Justina Damanskytė

Claudia Graziadei

Lucas Lopes Pereira

Artūras Miknaitis

Daniel Monteagudo Garcia

Eglė Paškevičienė

Salomėja Petronytė

Kalliopi Petrou

Ieva Skorubskaitė

Svetlana Statkevičienė

Nabila Dandara Vieira Santos

NON SINGING PERFORMERS

Raminta Barzdžiukienė

Lua Fuster

Vincentas Korba

Ona Lapelienė

Claudi Laudo Serrano

Julià Laudo Serrano

Jonas Statkevičius

Martina Telo

LIVE SOUNDTRACK

Elena Alymova / Salomėja Petronytė / Kalliopi Petrou

CONCEPT AND DEVELOPMENT

Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė

Vaiva Grainytė

Lina Lapelytė

SETTING

Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė

COMPOSER

Lina Lapelytė

LIBRETTO

Vaiva Grainytė

CURATOR

Lucia Pietroiusti

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Lique Van Gerven

LIBRETTO TRANSLATION

Rimas Užgiris (from Lithuanian to English)

Marc Sitjà (from English to Catalan and Spanish)

SOUND ENGINEER

Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas

PRODUCTION MANAGER AND STAGE MANAGER

Erika Urbelevič

TOUR PRODUCER

Aušra Simanavičiūtė

VISUAL IDENTITY

Goda Budvytytė

PRODUCTION

Sun & Sea (Lithuania)

FOUNDING PRODUCTION

Neon Realism (Lithuania)

CO-PRODUCED BY

Nida Art Colony de la Vilnius Academy of Arts, Akademie Schloss Solitude Goethe-Institut, Münchner Kammerspiele, National Gallery of Art de Vilnius, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, The Momentary, Arkansas

SPONSORED BY

JCDecaux

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