Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera

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.

• | Author: Rosamund Bartlett
• | Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0859898393
• | ISBN-13: 9780859898393