Victory Over the Sun
The World’s First Futurist Opera
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
328 pages
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32 color plates, 60 halftones
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6 1/2 x 9 1/2
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© 2012
The futurist opera Victory Over the Sun—written by Aleksei Kruchenykh and first performed in St. Petersburg in December 1913—was central to the Russian avant-garde, important for its libretto, its fragmentary, modernistic score, and its innovative sets and costumes. This book features an excellent translation of the text, accompanied by a number of essays from international contributors such as Laurence Senelick and John E. Bowlt that offer new insights into the practice and history of Russian theater in the first half of the twentieth century.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
About the Text
About the Contributors
Introduction
Rosamund Bartlett and Sarah Dadswell
Part I: Texts and Scores
1. Biographies of the Librettists, Set Designer and Composer
2. Annotated Translation of the Libretto of Victory over the Sun
Rosamund Bartlett
3. Pobeda nad solnstem: Facsimile of the Original 1913 Russian Publication, incorporating score fragments by Matiushin
4. Maria Ender's transcription of Matiushin's original score for Victory over the Sun
5. Contemporary Reviews
6. 'About the Opera Victory over the Sun'
Aleksei Kruchenykh
Part II: Essays
1. The Russian Cubo-Futurist Opera Victory over the Sun: Aleksei Kruchenykh's Alogical Creation
Michaela Böhmig
2. Entertainment and Enlightenment in Late Imperial Russian Theatre
Murray Frame
3. On the Eve: The Russian Stage 1911–1914
Laurence Senelick
4. Victories over the Sun: The Drama of the Russian Futurists
Robert Leach
5. Darkness and Light: Solar Eclipse as a Cubo-Futurist Metaphor
John E. Bowlt
6. Kazimir Malevich and the Designs for Victory over the Sun
Christina Lodder
7. Victory over the Sun: The Music
Catja Gaebel
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
Margareta Tillberg
9. Branding the Futurists
Sarah Dadswell
10. The Collision of Italian and Russian Futurism: Marinetti's Visit to Russia
Aurora Egidio
11. Burnt by the Sun: The Transmutation of Performativity, Theatricality, and Framing in the Late Work of Kazimir Malevich
Anna Wexler Katsnelson
12. A Modern Victory: Reflections on the 1999 Staging
Julia Hollander and Jeremy Arden in conversation with Sarah Dadswell
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Text
About the Contributors
Introduction
Rosamund Bartlett and Sarah Dadswell
Part I: Texts and Scores
1. Biographies of the Librettists, Set Designer and Composer
2. Annotated Translation of the Libretto of Victory over the Sun
Rosamund Bartlett
3. Pobeda nad solnstem: Facsimile of the Original 1913 Russian Publication, incorporating score fragments by Matiushin
4. Maria Ender's transcription of Matiushin's original score for Victory over the Sun
5. Contemporary Reviews
6. 'About the Opera Victory over the Sun'
Aleksei Kruchenykh
Part II: Essays
1. The Russian Cubo-Futurist Opera Victory over the Sun: Aleksei Kruchenykh's Alogical Creation
Michaela Böhmig
2. Entertainment and Enlightenment in Late Imperial Russian Theatre
Murray Frame
3. On the Eve: The Russian Stage 1911–1914
Laurence Senelick
4. Victories over the Sun: The Drama of the Russian Futurists
Robert Leach
5. Darkness and Light: Solar Eclipse as a Cubo-Futurist Metaphor
John E. Bowlt
6. Kazimir Malevich and the Designs for Victory over the Sun
Christina Lodder
7. Victory over the Sun: The Music
Catja Gaebel
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
Margareta Tillberg
9. Branding the Futurists
Sarah Dadswell
10. The Collision of Italian and Russian Futurism: Marinetti's Visit to Russia
Aurora Egidio
11. Burnt by the Sun: The Transmutation of Performativity, Theatricality, and Framing in the Late Work of Kazimir Malevich
Anna Wexler Katsnelson
12. A Modern Victory: Reflections on the 1999 Staging
Julia Hollander and Jeremy Arden in conversation with Sarah Dadswell
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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