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 shop workers found in everyday life into unique and lively characters, whereas their secret thoughts and biographies turn into short, personal dramas. The characters of diverse sales clerks, embodying universal archetypes, convey the predominant social landscape. The libretto represents a revealing mosaic of spoken, 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
→ 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)