Victory over the sun : the world's first futurist opera / edited by Rosamund Bartlett, Sarah Dadswell
- Published
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2012.
- Physical Description
- xv, 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Bartlett, Rosamund and Dadswell, Sarah
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Biographies of the Librettists, Set Designer and Composer / Sarah Dadswell / Rosamund Bartlett -- 2.Annotated Translation of the Libretto of Victory over the Sun / Sarah Dadswell / Rosamund Bartlett -- 3.Pobeda nad solntsem: Facsimile of the Original 1913 Russian Publication, incorporating score fragments by Matiushin / Rosamund Bartlett -- 4.Maria Ender's transcription of Matiushin's original score for Victory over the Sun / Rosamund Bartlett -- 5.Contemporary Reviews / Rosamund Bartlett -- 6.'About the Opera Victory over the Sun' / Rosamund Bartlett -- 1.The Russian Cubo-Futurist Opera Victory over the Sun: Aleksei Kruchenykh's Alogical Creation / Aleksei Kruchenykh -- 2.Entertainment and Enlightenment in Late Imperial Russian Theatre / Michaela Böhmig -- 3.On the Eve: The Russian Stage 1911-1914 / Murray Frame -- 4.Victories over the Sun: The Drama of the Russian Futurists / Laurence Senelick -- 5.Darkness and Light: Solar Eclipse as a Cubo-Futurist Metaphor / Robert Leach -- 6.Kazimir Malevich and the Designs for Victory over the Sun / John E. Bowlt -- 7.Victory over the Sun: The Music / Christina Lodder -- 8.'Be a Spectator with a Large Ear': Victory over the Sun as a Public Laboratory Experiment for Mikhail Matiushin's Theories of Colour Vision / Catja Gaebel -- 9.Branding the Futurists / Margareta Tillberg -- 10.The Collision of Italian and Russian Futurism: Marinetti's Visit to Russia / Sarah Dadswell -- 11.Burnt by the Sun: The Transmutation of Performativity, Theatricality, and Framing in the Late Work of Kazimir Malevich / Aurora Egidio -- 12.A Modern Victory: Reflections on the 1999 Staging / Anna Wexler Katsnelson.
- Summary
- 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, --
Rosamund Bartlett is Visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, London, and Visiting Research Fellow in the Music Department at King's College London. She is the author and editor of several books, including Wagner and Russia (1995), Shostakovich in Context (2000) and biographies of Tolstoy and Chekhov. --
Sarah Dadswell is a cultural historian specialising in performance and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Drama at Exeter. Her doctoral thesis on the emergence and development of Russian Futurist performance 1910-1914 (University of Sheffield) formed part of an AHRB project, entitled 'Russian Visual Arts, 1863-1913: Documents from the British Library Collection'. --Book Jacket. - Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780859898393 (hb.)
0859898393 (hb.) - 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 (pages [315]-322) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy: Gift in memory of J. Ronald "Gate" Gatehouse by Louis and Patricia Galliker; 2012.
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