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Title

Victory over the sun : the world's first futurist opera / edited by Rosamund Bartlett, Sarah Dadswell.

Publication

Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Bartlett, Rosamund
• Dadswell, Sarah
• Kruchenykh, A. (Alekseĭ), 1886-1969?

Description

xv, 328 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music; 24 cm.

Summary

"In 1913, the year in which the Romanovs celebrated their tercentenary, the premieres of two revolutionary theatrical events brought Russian artists ot the forefront of the European avant-garde. With its nonsensical 'trans-sense' libretto by 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"--Publisher's description, p. [2] of dust jacket.

Series Statement

Exeter performance studies

Uniform Title

Exeter performance studies.

Alternative Title

World's first futurist opera

Subject

• Mat︠i︡ushin, M. V
• Opera > Russia > 20th century

Note

• Includes an annotated translation of the libretto by Rosamund Bartlett and a facsimile of the original 1913 Russian publication of Victory over the sun.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-322) and index.

Contents

Part I: Texts and scores. Biographies of the librettists, set designer and composer ; Annotated translation of the libretto of "Victory over the sun" ; 'Pobeda nad solntsem' : facsimile of the original 1913 Russian publication, incorporating score fragments by Matiushim ; Maria Ender's transcription of Matiushim's original score for 'Victory over the sun' ; Contemporary reviews ; 'About the opera Victory over the sun' / Aleksei Kruchenykh -- Part II: 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 a 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 Egido ; 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 / Julie Hollander and Jeremy Arden in conversation with Sarah Dadswell.

Call Number

JME 12-863

ISBN

• 9780859898393 (hb.)
• 0859898393 (hb.)

OCLC

793420186

Title

Victory over the sun : the world's first futurist opera / edited by Rosamund Bartlett, Sarah Dadswell.

Imprint

Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2012.

Series

Exeter performance studies

Exeter performance studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-322) and index.

Added Author

Bartlett, Rosamund.

Dadswell, Sarah.

Kruchenykh, A. (Alekseĭ), 1886-1969? Pobeda nad soln︠t︡sem. Libretto. English & Russian.

Research Call Number

JME 12-863