LITHUANIAN CONTEMPORARY OPERA WILL BE PERFORMED IN SHANGHAI FESTIVAL
Lithuanian contemporary opera „Have a Good Day!“ is coming to China to participate in Shanghai International Contemporary Theatre Festival ACT, an annual international theatrical carnival hosted by Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. „Have a Good Day!“ by OPEROMANIJA creative group is a minimalistic and conceptual work for 10 singing cashiers, supermarket sounds and piano, 60 mins‘ duration with no intermission. The plot of the opera is set around the inner lives of cashiers in a shopping centre: shows what lies behind their mechanical “Good afternoon!“, “Thank you!“, “Have a good day!” and fake smile. The faceless, robot-like shop workers found in everyday life are transformed into different and live characters; their secret thoughts and biographies are turned into short, personal dramas. The characters of the various saleswomen represent the social landscape of Lithuania or serve as stylistic and universal figures. The libretto is a revealing mosaic of spoken, literary language and documentary. To avoid any moral or condemnatory suggestion, a critical attitude towards capitalism is expressed through humor, paradox, irony and poetry. The mosaic of different destinies is transformed into the poem demonstrating the pleasure of consumption. Independent creative group OPEROMANIJA is a collective of artists of the younger generation from various spheres: poets and composers, theatre directors and soloists, instrumentalists and conductors, video artists and stage designers, whose goal is to create contemporary opera. Over a period of five years since 2008, OPEROMANIJA has organized five contemporary opera festivals NOA (New Opera Action) and created and staged over 30 contemporary Lithuanian operas. OPEROMANIJA is an active promoter of music theatre and contemporary art in Lithuania. The opera “Have a Good Day!” is the result of a close collaboration between composer, librettist and director. All aspects of the opera – the text, music and visual aspect – originated simultaneously. None of these aesthetic positions is considered more important than other one. Lithuanian opera will be performed twice: November 19th and 20th at 7:30 pm. Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre•Studio D6 Booking hotline 8621-64730123 64734567 Online Booking sdac.taobao.com More information about the Festival: http://www.actfest.com/history2013_en.html
Lithuanian contemporary opera „Have a Good Day!“ is coming to China to participate in Shanghai International Contemporary Theatre Festival ACT, an annual international theatrical carnival hosted by Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center.
„Have a Good Day!“ by OPEROMANIJA creative group is a minimalistic and conceptual work for 10 singing cashiers, supermarket sounds and piano, 60 mins‘ duration with no intermission.
The plot of the opera is set around the inner lives of cashiers in a shopping centre: shows what lies behind their mechanical “Good afternoon!“, “Thank you!“, “Have a good day!” and fake smile. The faceless, robot-like shop workers found in everyday life are transformed into different and live characters; their secret thoughts and biographies are turned into short, personal dramas. The characters of the various saleswomen represent the social landscape of Lithuania or serve as stylistic and universal figures. The libretto is a revealing mosaic of spoken, literary language and documentary.
To avoid any moral or condemnatory suggestion, a critical attitude towards capitalism is expressed through humor, paradox, irony and poetry. The mosaic of different destinies is transformed into the poem demonstrating the pleasure of consumption.
Independent creative group OPEROMANIJA is a collective of artists of the younger generation from various spheres: poets and composers, theatre directors and soloists, instrumentalists and conductors, video artists and stage designers, whose goal is to create contemporary opera. Over a period of five years since 2008, OPEROMANIJA has organized five contemporary opera festivals NOA (New Opera Action) and created and staged over 30 contemporary Lithuanian operas. OPEROMANIJA is an active promoter of music theatre and contemporary art in Lithuania.
The opera “Have a Good Day!” is the result of a close collaboration between composer, librettist and director. All aspects of the opera – the text, music and visual aspect – originated simultaneously. None of these aesthetic positions is considered more important than other one.
Lithuanian opera will be performed twice: November 19th and 20th at 7:30 pm.
Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre•Studio D6
Booking hotline 8621-64730123 64734567 Online Booking sdac.taobao.com
More information about the Festival: http://www.actfest.com/history2013_en.html
