Description:
The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto and other important primary source materials.
Brief description: Rosamund Bartlett is Visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance 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, whose works she has also translated. Sarah Dadswell is a cultural historian specializing 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 inter-institutional AHRB project, entitled 'Russian Visual Arts, 1863-1913: Documents from the British Library Collection', conducted by the Universities of Exeter and Sheffield.
Review Quotes:
'This project brings the highest possible standard of scholarship to bear on avant-garde cultural production.'
Maria Gough, Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University
'This collection opens fascinating and enriching views into a brief but powerful explosion.'
The Times Literary Supplement, 2 November 2012
'Without doubt, it will be rewarding reading for anyone interested in Russian modernism.'
Slavic Review, Summer 2013, vol. 72, no.2