Things I didn't dare say, and now it's too late
Things I didn't dare say, and now it's too late
Performance
Sat, 1 Feb 2025, 18:30
Price:
20.20–40.00 €
Staff
Scenic artist
Barbora ŠulniūtėCostume designer
Juozas ValentaComposer
Dominykas DigimasAuthor of the idea of video projections
Barbora ŠulniūtėLight artist
Julius KuršysAuthor of video projections
Jurgis LietunovasMusic director and conductor
Ričardas ŠumilaChoirmaster
Povilas ButkusActors
Boy Naglis
Teodoras LipciusBrother
Ryo IshimotoPassengers and other characters
Gintare RadauskaiteOlga RadzevičienėLina SarkieneMonika BuozyteJovita DovseviciuteEvelina Greciunaite SimkuvieneJulija SmolicAnna TrosinaEgidijus JonaitisMantas IvanauskasKestutis PapartisGeorgij PopovDainius JakstasZygimantas JasiunasDonatas ZukauskasPovilas ButkusSarunas CepulisMartynas KindurysEvent description
in 2010 Itaru Sasaki from Otsuchi, Japan learned that his beloved cousin had cancer and only three months to live. After his cousin's death, Sasaki set up an old phone booth in his backyard so that he could communicate with the deceased every day, and his words would be carried away by the wind.in 2011 A tsunami occurred in the vicinity of Otsuchi, killing 10 percent of the population. city residents. Gradually, people found out about the phone booth and began visiting Itaru Sasaki's garden to call their lost loved ones.From 2022 on March 1, just a week after Russia started the war in Ukraine, an old payphone, identical to the "wind phone" that stood in Japan, was placed near the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater. People were invited to stop by and "call" those who didn't get to say what they wanted to say in time, and now it's too late. In more than 6 months, the phone was picked up about 4000 times. Audio recordings of all the authentic stories became the basis of the opera's libretto.The payphone opera "Things I didn't dare to say, and now it's too late" is a sensitive, delicate story about a person who is grieving, at the same time it is a transparent cut through the geographical territories opened by grief, a journey to meeting, reconciliation, experiencing the world as a whole.