Have a Good Day!

  • Author(s): Lina Lapelytė, Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė
  • Year of Publication: 2018
  • Publisher(s): Operomanija
33,00

“It’s like a mini masterpiece. It’s just nothing to take away, nothing to add – it’s very solid, very simple and very real,” said Jonas Mekas in his video diary after seeing the opera “Have a Good Day!” in New York in 2014. The vinyl record, released in 2018, became a documentary proof of the success that first opera by Vaiva Grainytė, Lina Lapelytė, Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė gained during its U.S. premiere. LP of the opera “Have a Good Day!” presents recording of live performances that took place at HERE Art Centre in New York in January 2014. The publication is supplemented with the libretto of the opera in Lithuanian and English, quotes from the reviews published in the solid U.S. press, as well as a gallery of portraits of the main opera heroines – the cashiers of the shopping center. The opera “Have a Good Day!” is a kind of ode to capitalism, having traveled to many countries, theaters, concert halls and festivals around the world, and has been awarded national and international awards.

Libretto by Vaiva Grainytė
Composer and music director Lina Lapelytė
Director and set designer Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė
Costume designer Daiva Samajauskaitė
Lighting designer Eugenijus Sabaliauskas
Producer Operomanija

Design and layout: Jurgis Griškevičius
Photos: Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Dovydas Korba
English translation: Indrė Šilėnaitė
Translation editing: Aleksandra Fomina, Rebecca Lewin

Cashiers: Lina Dambrauskaitė, Liucina Blaževič, Vida Valuckienė, Veronika Čičinskaitė-Golovanova, Lina Valionienė, Rima Šovienė, Milda Zapolskaitė, Rita Račiūnienė, Svetlana Bagdonaitė, Kristina Svolkinaitė
Security guard: Kęstutis Pavalkis (piano)

Recorded on January 15–19, 2014 at HERE (New York, U.S.), PROTOTYPE festival co-produced by BETH MORRISON PROJECTS and HERE
Sound engineer: Garth MacAlevay
Mixing and mastering: Arūnas Zujus

Duration: 46′19″
Price: 33,00 €
Format: LP (180 g, white) and catalog with the libretto in Lithuanian and English (32 pages with photos)
Year of publication: 2018
Operomanija OP-001