Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė & Lina Lapelytė

Sun & Sea

Lituania
video

People on colourful towels and deckchairs, dozing, reading and sunbathing. Scattered around them are pulp novels, plastic tools for making sandcastles, snacks, swimming aids, sunscreen, beachwear for the stroll back to the hotel. In the monumental musical installation «Sun & Sea», the audience sees a typical summer beach scene. But this airy perfection is deceptive.

The twenty or so beach guests, who we watch from an elevated gallery, sing a never-ending opera while lounging in the sun. They sing of trivial situations from their lives and touch on ecological macro-topics time and again. The libretto subtly merges memories of the last beach holiday and the consumption of foods imported from faraway countries with natural disasters, climate change and the state of the earth, which can hardly cope with humanity anymore. On closer inspection, the idyllic scenery becomes increasingly threatening. The artificial midday sun, from which the beach guests try to protect themselves with suncream, is no longer warm as summer but oppressive, even dangerous.

The indoor beach opera «Sun & Sea» premiered in the Lithuanian pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale and was awarded with the Golden Lion for the best national contribution. It was devised by three young Lithuanian artists: The filmmaker and theatre director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, whose film essay «Acid Forest» was shown at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival, the acclaimed author and script writer Vaiva Grainytė and the visual artist and musician Lina Lapelytė, whose performances have been presented at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Cartier Foundation in Paris. The beach opera is the second joint work of this acclaimed trio. «Sun & Sea» skilfully plays with the ambivalence between trivial daily life and fundamental social criticism − showing that what seems to be harmless is in fact very, very serious. (rb)

Artistic direction and cast

Konzept & EntwicklungRugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė und Lina Lapelytė
Regie & BühnendesignRugilė Barzdžiukaitė
Libretto Vaiva Grainytė
Komposition & Musikalische LeitungLina Lapelytė
KurationLucia Pietroiusti
Produktionsleitung TourneeAušra Simanavičiūtė
Tournee Koordination & InspizienzErika Urbelevič 
Technische LeitungLique Van Gerven
GrafikGoda Budvytytė
ÖffentlichkeitsarbeitLina Vaitekūnaitė, Jogintė Bučinskaitė
Sänger*innenAliona Alymova, Marco Cisco, Claudia Graziadei, Artūras Miknaitis, Yates Norton, Vytautas Pastarnokas, Eglė Paškevičienė, Lucas Lopes Pereira, Salomėja Petronytė, Kalliopi Petrou, Ieva Skorubskaitė, Svetlana Statkevičienė, Annapaola Trevenzuoli, Elisabetta Trevenzuoli, Nabila Dandara Vieira Santos
Weitere Darsteller*innenVincentas Korba, Jeronimas Petraitis, Juozas Petraitis, Pranas Petraitis, Jonas Statkevičius, Mantas Petraitis, Raminta Barzdžiukienė
TontechnickTautvydas Navikas, Simas Žemgulis 


Production

ProduktionNeon Realism
KoproduktionNida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Goethe-Institut, Münchner Kammerspiele, Nationalgalerie Vilnius, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, The Momentary Arkansas
Im Auftrag vonPavillon von Litauen, 58. Biennale Venedig 2019, Rasa Antanavičiūtė
Unterstützung Sun & Sea (Marina), Venice, 2019Lithuanian council for culture; Kultur- ministerium der Republik Litauen, Stadt Vilnius, Laurenz-Stiftung Basel
SponsorJC Decaux
Premiere58. Biennale Venedig 2019, Pavillon von Litauen

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Opera Performance

Swiss premiere

Duration

Loop 60 mins.

Language

English

An inclusive event

accessible with wheelchair with Audiodescription

Audio-description for the visually impaired

Sat 15 and Sun 16 Aug 17 to 19 hrs, as well as Fr 21 18 to 20 hrs.
Headsets available at the entrance.

Protective measure

Minimum distancing cannot be met. Wearing a face mask is mandatory.

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