May 26, 2013 Have a Good Day!, 2013

A contemporary opera for 10 singing cashiers, supermarket sounds and piano
by Vaiva Grainytė, Lina Lapelytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė.

The opera focuses on the inner lives of cashiers in a shopping centre: showing what lies behind their mechanical ‘Good afternoon!’, ‘Thank you!’, ‘Have a good day!’ and fake smiles. It transforms the faceless, robot-like clerks one encounters daily into unique and lively characters, whose secret thoughts and biographies turn into short personal dramas. These diverse characters, while embodying universal archetypes, are designed to reflect the contemporary social landscape. The libretto reveals a mosaic of slang and literary language and documentary.

Concept by Vaiva Grainytė, Lina Lapelytė, Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė
Librettist: Vaiva Grainytė
Composer and music director: Lina Lapelytė
Director and set designer: Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė
Lighting designer: Eugenijus Sabaliauskas
Costume designer: Daiva Samajauskaitė
Sound engineer: Arūnas Zujus
Producer: Operomanija

The libretto has been translated into English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Estonian, Latvian, Chinese (mandarin).

More info:
→  https://haveagoodday.lt
→  Vinyl record

  • Tours
  • → 3 October, 2026 Toyohashi Arts Theatre | Toyohashi, Japan
  • → 25-26 September, 2026 ROHM Theatre Kyoto, South Hall | Kyoto, Japan
  • → 26 October, 2025 Have a Good Day! REMIX Tamsta Music Club
  • → 9 August, 2025 Klaipėda State Music Theatre, Sea Hall | Klaipėda Festival
  • → 20 May, 2025 Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Internationale Maifestspiele | Wiesbande, Germany
  • → 03-04 April, 2025 Arts Printing House, Black Hall
  • → 29 November, 2024 Teatr Nowy, Festiwal Eufonie | Warsaw, Poland
  • → 22-24 October, 2024
    Théâtre du Rond-Point, Festival d’Automne (Paris, France)
  • → 2-4 October, 2024
    ThéâtredelaCité, La Biennale Toulouse (Toulouse, France)
  • → 7-8 September, 2024
    National Kaunas Drama Theatre (Kaunas, Lithuania)
  • → 18-19 June, 2024
    Biennale Teatro (Venice, Italy)
  • → February, 2023
    Teatri di Vita/Art City Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
  • → August, 2022
    International Visaginas theatre festival (Visaginas, Lithuania)
    → April, 2022
    Arts Printing House (Vilnius, Lithuania)
    → February, 2022
    Thalia Theater. Lessingtage festival (Hamburg, Germany)
    → August, 2021
    Kaunas State Musical Theatre. Pažaislis Music Festival (Kaunas, Lithuania)
    → April, 2020
    Arts Printing House (Vilnius, Lithuania)
    → 5 April, 2019
    Arts Printing House (Vilnius, Lithuania)
    → 8 May, 2018 
    Teatro Argentina (Rome, Italy)
    → 18 May 2017 
    Operadagen Rotterdam, Classical:NEXT (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
    → 10 March 2017
    EUROPOLY FESTIVAL, Teatro Maria Matos (Lisbon, Portugal)
    → 7-8 December 2016 
    MIDWINTER NIGHT’S DREAM FESTIVAL (Tallinn, Estonia)
    → 22 November 2016
    BOREALES FESTIVAL (Caen, France)
    → 6-7 October 2016 
    SIRENOS (Vilnius, Lithuania)
    → 24 September 2016
    GOGOLFEST (Kiev, Ukraine)
    → 2-3 September 2016 
    BASEL THEATRE FESTIVAL (Basel, Switzerland)
    → 17 May 2016 
    THEATRE CORNOUAILLE (Quimper, France)
    → 20-21 February 2016 
    EUROPOLY (Munich, Germany)  
    → 19-20 November 2015
    Festival FAST FORWARD (Braunschweig, Germany)
    → 30-31 May 2015
    Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne CDN (Dijon, France)
    → 27-28 May 2015
    Festival HORIZON, La Filature (Mulhouse, France)
    → 22-23 May 2015
    MC2, (Grenoble, France)                                                          
    → 13-15 May 2015
    Festival PASSAGES, Théâtre du Saulcy (Metz, France)
    → 30-31 March 2015
    EXIT festival (Creteil, France) 
    → 20 November 2014
    Le Bateau Feu (Dunkerque, France)
    → 17-18 November 2014
    NEXT festival La Rose Des Vents (Lille, France)
    → 13-14 November 2014
    AUTOMNE EN NORMANDIE festival (Le Havre, France)
    → 17 September 2014
    BALTIC THEATRE FESTIVAL (Riga, Latvia)
    → 8 March 2014
    International Theatre Festival GOLDEN MASK (Moscow, Russia)
    → 14 January 2014 
    BBC3 radio broadcast
    → 15-20 January 2014
    International Contemporary Music Festival PROTOTYPE (New York, USA)
    → 18-19 November 2013
    International Contemporary Theatre Festival ACT 2013 (Shanghai, China)
    → 14 November 2013
    International Contemporary Music festival IŠ ARTI (Kaunas, Lithuania)
    → 10 November 2013
    live broadcast from LRT radio concert’s studio
    → 28 September 2013
    International Theatre festival SIRENOS’13 (Vilnius, Lithuania)
    → 11 April 2011
    Contemporary Art Center (Vilnius, Lithuania)