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Book SynopsisThe Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this ‘anti-opera’ and other important primary source materials.
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‘This project brings the highest possible standard of scholarship to bear on avant-garde cultural production.’
Maria Gough, Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University
‘This collection opens fascinating and enriching views into a brief but powerful explosion.’
The Times Literary Supplement, 2 November 2012
‘Without doubt, it will be rewarding reading for anyone interested in Russian modernism.’
Slavic Review, Summer 2013, vol. 72, no.2
Table of ContentsVictory Over the Sun: The World’s First Futurist Opera
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
About the Text
About the contributors
Introduction – Rosamund Bartlett and Sarah Dadswell
Texts and Scores
i. Biographies of the Librettists, Set Designer and Composer
ii. Annotated translation of the libretto of Victory Over the Sun (translated by Rosamund Bartlett)
iii. Pobeda nad solntsem: facsimile of the original 1913 Russian publication, incorporating some fragments by Matiushin
iv. Maria Ender’s transcription of Matiushin’s original score for Victory Over the Sun
v. Contemporary reviews
vi. ‘About the Opera Victory Over the Sun’, by Aleksei Kruchenykh
Essays
The Russian Cubo-Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun: Aleksei Kruchenykh’s Alogical Creation, Michaela Böhmig
Entertainment and Enlightenment in Late Imperial Russian Theatre, Murray Frame
On the Eve: the Russian Stage 1911–1914, Laurence Senelick
Victories over the Sun: the Drama of the Russian Futurists, Robert Leach
Darkness and Light: Solar Eclipse as a Cubo-Futurist Metaphor John E. Bowlt
Kazimir Malevich and the Designs for Victory Over the Sun, Christina Lodder
Victory over the Sun – the Music, Catja Gaebel
“Be a Spectator with a Large Ear”: Victory over the Sun as Public Laboratory Experiment for Mikhail Matiushin's Theories of Colour Vision, Margareta Tillberg
Branding the Futurists, Sarah Dadswell
The Collision of Italian and Russian Futurism: Marinetti’s Visit to Russia, Aurora Egidio
Burnt by the Sun: the Transmutation of Performativity, Theatricality, and Framing in the Late Work of Kazimir Malevich, Anna Wexler-Katsnelson
A Modern Victory: Reflections on the 1999 Staging, Julia Hollander, Director and Jeremy Arden, Composer, in conversation with Sarah Dadswell
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
