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.
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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.
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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.
