The Golden Lion-winning opera-performance Sun & Sea, created by the three artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, invites you to a sunny summer beach in Vilnius.
Acclaimed by international audiences, the piece transports the viewers to a sunny summer day on the beach, where holidaymakers dressed in brightly coloured bathing suits perform the usual beach routines and sing. Lying under the artificial sun on several dozen tons of sand, the summer vacationers share their daily worries, memories, the composition of sunscreen, and plans of making an omelette in the morning. The themes of climate change, corporeality and universal fatigue unfold in the work in a captivating and mildly ironic way.
Watching from a solar perspective above the stage, the audience observes the humans sunbathing on the sandy beach like an endangered species.
A special Lithuanian version of the work is being produced for the long-awaited performance in Vilnius, repeatedly postponed due to the pandemic.
Sun & Sea will be staged on 16-19 December in the former Vilnius Taxi Park (Pelesos St. 1 / Dariaus ir Girėno St. 2, Vilnius). In this exclusive venue with a unique architecture that suits the work exceptionally well, the spectators will be able to watch the opera-performance from several levels of the spiral ramp driveway.
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
Singers and performers: Evaldas Alekna, Aliona Alymova, Teresė Andrijauskaitė, Milda Andrijauskaitė-Bakanauskienė, Svetlana Bagdonaitė, Renata Dubinskaitė, Auksė Dovydėnaitė, Saulė Dovydėnaitė, Deividas Janušas, Magdelena Kozlovskaja, Artūras Miknaitis, Vytautas Pastarnokas, Eglė Paškevičienė, Salomėja Petronytė, Violeta Savickaitė, Ieva Skorubskaitė, Jonas Statkevičius, Lukas Vaičiūnas, Eglė Valčiukaitė, Šarūnas Visockis
Producers: Rasa Antanavičiūtė, Aušra Simanavičiūtė
Production manager/stage manager – Erika Urbelevič
Lights – Archlights
Sound – NGR Service
Libretto translation (Lithuanian to English) – Rimas Uzgiris
Visual identity – Goda Budvytytė
Communication: Lina Vaitiekūnaitė, Jogintė Bučinskaitė
Organisers – Neon Realism
Technical management of Vilnius show – Fors Event
The project is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality
Project partners Triniti Jurex, Grinda
Media partners: JCDecaux, LRT, Žmonės
Important information about the location of the event! Sun & Sea will be displayed in an 8-storey building lined with a spiral ramp. We kindly recommend watching the work from lower levels if you have a fear of height, vertigo-related conditions, or coordination problems. Please protect yourself, your loved ones and those around you, do not swing on or lean over the handrails, and follow the guiding signs inside the building. Due to the specifics of the venue, children younger than 7 years of age are not admitted. As the performance will be watched from above, please make sure your personal belongings do not fall on the performance area and do not injure the performers.
Please keep the safety distance and observe other COVID-19 regulations: wear a medical face mask covering the nose and mouth during the entire event, use a hand sanitiser regularly. If you have newly-arisen respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat or decreased general condition, we kindly ask you to stay home. The organisers of the event will disinfect the ramp handrails after each performance.
Every person must present a National or EU Covid Certificate (Green Pass) to access the event. More information at www.gpasas.lt. Having a ticket does not guarantee entry to the event if the above security requirements are not met.
Venue: Vilnius taxi park (Pelesos str. 1 / Dariaus ir Girėno str. 2, Vilnius, Lithuania)
The door opens 30 minutes before the start of the event
Duration: 50 min.
Breaks: None
Discounts: Apply
Age limit: Due to the specifics of the venue, children younger than 7 years of age are not admitted.
