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Victory Over the Sun - The World's First Futurist Opera (Hardcover, New)
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Victory Over the Sun - The World's First Futurist Opera (Hardcover, New)
Series: Exeter Performance Studies
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The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, first staged in 1913 in St
Petersburg, was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious
for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering
abstract sets and costumes designed by Kazimir Malevich. The iconic
importance of Victory over the Sun as a theatrical event is
universally acknowledged. This volume brings together the first
fully annotated translation of the libretto of this 'anti-opera'
and other important primary source materials, including the score,
the set and costume designs and contemporary newspaper reviews. The
second part of the volume provides a wide-ranging collection of
interpretive essays which explore the artistic, literary and
musical dimensions of the staging, its theatrical and historical
context, its relationship to Italian Futurism, and its position
within the Russian modernist movement. You can read more about the
Pushkin House event on 22 November 2012 on the Russian Art and
Culture website by following this link http://
www.russianartandculture.com/victory-over-sun-book-launch-pushkin-house/
(will open in a new window). And you can see and hear more in
Alexander Kan's report on the BBC Russian site by following this
link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/multimedia/2012/11/121127_futuristic_dinner.shtml
(will open in a new window). In 1913, the year in which the
Romanovs celebrated their tercentenary, the premieres of two
revolutionary theatrical events brought Russian artists to the
forefront of the European avant-garde. With its nonsensical
'trans-sense' libretto by Aleksei Kruchenykh and Velimir
Khlebnikov, experimental score by Mikhail Matiushin and pioneering
abstract sets and costumes by Kazimir Malevich, the Futurist opera
Victory over the Sun may be compared in terms of its radical
assault on artistic convention to Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite
of Spring. This interdisciplinary volume brings together a
distinguished team of international scholars to discuss the
artistic significance of this epoch-making 'anti-opera', which is
now recognised as a key event of avant-garde cultural production,
and a turning point in stage history. The book offers new insight
into the theatre practice and history of Russian Futurist
performance, which, to date, has received little attention from
theatre scholars despite its influence on the development of
European drama in the twentieth century. As well as an annotated
translation of the libretto, the book includes reproductions of the
score and contemporary newspaper reviews. Illustrated throughout,
and with a colour plate section containing twenty-seven colour
images of costume designs, posters and other work by the abstract
artist Kazimir Malevich.
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