An artificial beach with bathers in a theater: the opera-performance at Rome's Teatro Argentina

From June 22 to July 4, 2021, Teatro Argentina in Rome hosts the performance work Sun & Sea by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti.

The performance is the result of a collaboration between Rugile Barzdziukaite, film and theater director and visual artist, Vaiva Grainyte, writer, playwright and poet, and Lina Lapelyte, artist, composer and performer, winner in 2019 of the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 58th Venice Biennale.

An artificial beach with lights, architecture and music. Holidaymakers in colorful costumes are lying next to each other on the sand, while the audience watches from above, at the height of the sun. In the heat of an eternal midday, the characters begin to tell their stories: frivolous micro-narratives are interspersed with more serious topics that grow into a symphony, a global human chorus that gradually becomes aware of anthropogenic climate change on a global scale.

There is a sense of concern about what happens when the human species systematically continues to fail to recognize the threats and urgencies it is causing, until their effects appear directly before our eyes.

The direction and set design of Sun & Sea are by Rugile Barzdziukaite, composition and musical direction by Lina Lapelyte, libretto by Vaiva Grainyte, translated from the Lithuanian by Rimas Uzgiris.

Participating in the opera-performance are singers Aliona Alymova, Marco Cisco, Aukse Dovydenaite, Saule Dovydenaite, Claudia Graziadei, Arturas Miknaitis, Yates Norton, Vytautas Pastarnokas, Egle Paškeviciene, Lucas Lopes Pereira, Salomeja Petronyte, Kalliopi Petrou, Ieva Skorubskaite, Svetlana Statkeviciene, Nabila Dandara Vieira Santos, and performers Raminta Barzdziukiene, Vincentas Korba, Jeronimas Petraitis, Juozas Petraitis, Pranas Petraitis, Mantas Petraitis, Jonas Statkevicius, and any extras who wish to join the beach.

Produced by Neon Realism, in collaboration with 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, Teatro di Roma - Teatro Nazionale, with support from Lithuanian Institute of Culture, Lithuanian Council for Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Laurenz Foundation in Basel, Vilnius City Municipality. Sun & Sea (Marina) for Venice Biennale 2019 was commissioned by Rasa Antanaviciute. Sponsor JCDecaux.

For more info: teatrodiroma.net

Showtimes: Daily, except Mondays, at 4 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 8:30 p.m. The performance lasts one hour.

Tickets: Full 15 euros, reduced 10 euros.

Ph. Credit Andrej Vasilenko

An artificial beach with bathers in a theater: the opera-performance at Rome's Teatro Argentina

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