{"id":1953,"date":"2026-06-22T07:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/?post_type=programa&p=1953"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:27:44","slug":"radvila-darius-son-of-vytautas-2","status":"publish","type":"programa","link":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/programa\/radvila-darius-son-of-vytautas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Radvila Darius, Son of Vytautas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radvila Darius, son of Vytautas<\/em> is a dialogue between live music performed by four instrumentalists and video excerpts from the archives of Lithuanian Radio and Television.<\/p>\n

The period of censorship at Lithuanian Television ended in the last years of the eighties. The air was flooded with issues, suggestions and comments accumulated over the years \u2013 everyone had to say their word. In the absence of formal freedom, the viewers soon got involved in the quest for new identity, heroes and vision of a better future. Music commenting the sights of the time immerses the viewers into a tragicomic narrative of problems, which has begun thirty years ago and continues to the present day.<\/p>\n

Nostalgia for the past is replaced in the piece by ironic interpretations of sounds of the eighties and nineties, while the questions formed by absurd repetitions and sentimental inclusions continually arise in a collage atmosphere: does that all represent the quest for \u201cLithuanian\u201d character, or is it a mere routine of human being and everyday life?<\/p>\n

The piece features video materials from the archives of Lithuanian Television: fragments of TV shows \u201cVeidrodis\u201d (Mirror<\/em>), \u201cAkistata\u201d (Tete-a-tete<\/em>), \u201cVilnius ir vilnie\u010diai\u201d (Vilnius and Vilniusites<\/em>) and \u201cSekmadienio ryt\u0105\u201d (On a Sunday Morning<\/em>) from the period of 1989\u20131991.<\/p>\n

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They say the creator keeps solving the same conflict in his\/her work. Year to year, from piece to piece \u2013 the characters and themes keep changing, but the fundamental conflict remains the same \u2013 could it be that the nation is doing the same? <\/em><\/p>\n

Birut\u0117 Kapustinskait\u0117<\/p>\n

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Analysis of three-decades-old archival materials reveals that time has little effect upon the topics we are talking about. Excess talk leads to inflation of words as they lose their meanings. Perhaps music might help to understand or at least grasp their meaning. <\/em><\/p>\n

Karolis Kaupinis<\/p>\n

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It was a balance between music as something feeding on modernity, and the visual dramaturgy as something digesting history. A very interesting crossing of two genres.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dovil\u0117 Zavedskait\u0117, menufaktura.lt<\/p>\n

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Using archival conversations to tell about their \/ our nation and where we have (not) come over the three recent decades, creators of \u201cRadvila Darius, Son of Vytautas\u201d artfully blend sympathy and (self)irony. Perhaps this is how they manage to grasp the unique national hope that helped us survive over centuries, to endure sufferings, recover and live further.<\/em><\/p>\n

Goda Dap\u0161yt\u0117, 370<\/p>\n

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    Credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Creative team:<\/strong> Karolis Kaupinis, Birut\u0117 Kapustinskait\u0117, Arnas Mikalk\u0117nas, Kristupas Gikas, Kazimieras Ju\u0161inskas, Simonas Kaupinis, Dominykas Snarskis, Goda Palekait\u0117, Julius Kur\u0161is, Ervinas Gresevi\u010dius, Ignas Juzokas, Jurijus Koroliovas<\/p>\n

    Producer:\u00a0<\/strong>Operomanija<\/p>\n

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    Premiere: <\/strong>9 September 2020<\/p>\n

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    Supported by:<\/strong> Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality<\/p>\n

    Partners:<\/strong> LRT, Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","festivalio_programa":[39,14],"class_list":["post-1953","programa","type-programa","status-publish","hentry","festivalio_programa-lithuanian-performing-arts-platform26","festivalio_programa-programme"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programa\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programa"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/programa"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"festivalio_programa","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festivalio_programa?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}