Sun & Sea (Marina)  Sun & Sea (Marina) is an opera composed by with a libretto by Vaiva Grainytė and directed by , and presented as part of the 2019 Venice Biennale in a project curated by Lucia Pietroiusti. It won the festival's top award, the Golden Lion. The opera premiered in 2017 at the Lithuanian National Gallery of Art and was translated into English for the Biennale, where it served as Lithuania's national participation. It is set on a faux beach indoors, in which 24 performers partake in commonplace beach activities while singing about the causes and physical impacts of climate change in solo arias and group harmonies. The performance was a popular attraction with long wait lines at the Biennale. Multiple reviewers considered "Sun & Sea (Marina)" a highlight of the overall exhibition and "The Guardian" included it among the best performances of the year. As presented at the 2019 Venice Biennale, the opera is set on an imitation beach indoors. Around 24 performers from Lithuania and Italy walk on the sand, lounge on chairs and towels, and partake in beach and other mundane activities, such as eating salad, checking phones, knitting, and playing frisbee. The actors range in age and family status, reflecting a commonplace beach scene. Though the opera is staged in leisurely harmony, the libretto's contents darkly remark on Earth's deterioration. Their solo arias and group harmonies address the causes and physical impacts of climate change and topics including the sun, the tide, ocean pollution, threats to the Great Barrier Reef, and extreme weather events. The audience ascends stairs to a balcony and views the opera from above. "Sun & Sea (Marina)" was created by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė. The opera premiered at the Vilnius National Gallery of Art in 2017. It was rewritten from Lithuanian to English for the Venice Biennale. The production was staged in the Marina Militare, within Venice's Castello area and apart from the main Biennale events in the Giardini and Arsenale. It ran during the Biennale's opening week and on Saturdays for the remainder of the exhibition. The Lithuanian pavilion received the Biennale's Golden Lion award for best national participation. Multiple reviewers considered it a highlight of the overall Biennale exhibition.