Have a good day!: von Vaiva Grainytė, Lina Lapelytė und Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė

In the organizer's words:

Guest performances have taken them from Lithuania all over the world. Now the celebrated opera performance with 10 singing cashiers is also coming to Wiesbaden.

We take a look into the inner lives of cashiers in a shopping center. Behind their mechanical greetings and stiff smiles lies a world full of personal stories, secrets and feelings. "Have a Good Day!" makes them audible: self-care routines, romantic affairs, the need for childcare, the disgust at the daily humdrum of work. This is reflected in the flickering and humming of a stage installation that uses light and sound to draw the audience into a supermarket atmosphere. However, the goods on sale are only available in acoustic form. With their scanners, the protagonists create a carpet of sound that accompanies their songs, arias and choirs as a kind of background noise - to the rhythm of eternal buying and selling. Musically, the ten cashiers sound all the more individual - as do their lyrics: a mosaic of everyday language, literature and documentation. The women walk the fine line between consumerism and criticism.

A production by Operomanija
Supported by the Lithuanian Cultural Council, Vilnius City Council