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Informationen zum Autor Rosamund Bartlett is a fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Sarah Dadswell is a research fellow in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter. Klappentext The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this 'anti-opera' and other important primary source materials. Zusammenfassung The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this ‘anti-opera’ and other important primary source materials. Inhaltsverzeichnis Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera List of Illustrations Acknowledgements About the Text About the contributors Introduction - Rosamund Bartlett and Sarah Dadswell Texts and Scores i. Biographies of the Librettists! Set Designer and Composer ii. Annotated translation of the libretto of Victory Over the Sun (translated by Rosamund Bartlett) iii. Pobeda nad solntsem: facsimile of the original 1913 Russian publication! incorporating some fragments by Matiushin iv. Maria Ender's transcription of Matiushin's original score for Victory Over the Sun v. Contemporary reviews vi. 'About the Opera Victory Over the Sun'! by Aleksei Kruchenykh Essays The Russian Cubo-Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun: Aleksei Kruchenykh's Alogical Creation! Michaela Bohmig 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 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 Egidio 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! Julia Hollander! Director and Jeremy Arden! Composer! in conversation with Sarah Dadswell Notes Selected Bibliography Index ...
