25 Tons of Sand in a Courtyard and Anguish over the Blocker: ‘Sun & Sea’ Hallucinates at Fic 2025

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You enter a courtyard in Guanajuato, a mining city without exit to the sea, and you see a beach from the sky where several people tend on towels that do not notice your presence or your bewilderment. They eat, play with a ball shaped like planet Earth, bathe eagerly in sun block and suddenly start to sing.These are things that only happen at the International Cervantino Festival (FIC).What might seem like a night hallucination for having a water…

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Guanajuato, Gto.- Directed by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, ‘Sun & Sea’ is an opera performance that has captured the attention of locals and visitors with a series of continuous functions from the center of Guanajuato capital during the International Cervantino Festival in its 53rd edition. In addition to having a completely different format with a staging of 13 vocalists and 25 tons of sand, the winning piece of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale …