This acclaimed Lithuanian opera is equal parts harbinger of climate crisis doom, a White Lotus-style commentary on privilege and an ode to modern life
ustralians cleave to the coast. But as much as we lounge and play by the shore, you would be hard-pressed to find opera on many Australians’ beach soundtracks, lest charges of elitism undermine our egalitarian mythology.
The wry libretto is set to a simple, prerecorded synthesiser sound, leaving the array of voices and the joyously full-beach staging to shine. A wealthy mother in a red swimsuit lies on a deck chair and sings of her eight-and-a-half-year-old boy next to her, who has “visited two of the world’s great oceans / And we’ll visit the remaining ones this year!” She has noticed, while diving with her husband, that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers from “bleached, pallid whiteness”.
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