In "House Matyushina", an exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the premiere futurist opera "Victory Over the Sun." Includes photographs, letters, postcards, posters, reviews, costumes and scenery for the play, videos five producti

St. Petersburg Museum of avant-garde "House Matyushina »
December 5, 2013 - April 3 2014
St. Petersburg, ul. Professor Popov , 10

The Museum of St. Petersburg avant "House Matyushina" , an exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the premiere futurist opera "Victory Over the Sun" , which became one of the key events in the history of Russian avant-garde. Includes photographs , letters, postcards , posters , reviews, costumes and scenery for the play , videos five productions of the opera of the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg , St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music , the Central State Archive of Film , Institute of Russian Literature ( Pushkin House ) , the National Library and private collections .

summer of 1913, in the village Uusikirkko near St. Petersburg , in the country M. V. Matyushina held the "First All-Russian Congress of the Futurists ." Congress participants were three Matushin himself , Alexei A. Kruchenykh and K. Malevich . They had written a manifesto declares the development of fundamentally new theater " Budetlyanin ." In just a few months was created opera " Victory Over the Sun ." Text prologue opera written Khlebnikov , libretto - AE Kruchenykh music - MV Matushin decorations fulfilled Malevich .

premiere of the opera " Victory Over the Sun " held on 3 and 5 December 1913 in the theater" Luna Park "on Officers street (now st. Decembrists ) in St. Petersburg. Staging struck contemporaries abstruse arias , strange costumes, unusual music extracted from a frustrated piano. "On the day of the first performance in the audience all the time was " terrible scandal '"( MV Matushin ).

The exhibition presents the first documentation of the opera productions . This pictures made ​​MV Matiushin during the congress in Uusikirkko correspondence between authors work on the opera , Playbill , photos of participants , press reviews . Demonstrates stationery autograph Khlebnikov text prologue opera " Chernotvorskie vestuchki " from a private collection .

subsequent fate of opera productions included , taken in the 1920s, Malevich and L. Lissitzky .

6 February 1920 on the initiative of Malevich by students and teachers of the Vitebsk art school in Vitebsk Latvian club room was staged opera " Victory Over the Sun . " Scenography author became a pupil of K. S.Malevicha Vera V. Yermolaeva . Opera was shown in the program performance - rally in the first part of which was a paper by M. Noskov "On the new theater " , the second - "Victory Over the Sun" , and concludes - " Suprematism ballet » N. Kogan . About this event in the exhibition remind sketches of scenery and VM Ermolayeva NI Kogan .

Version El Lissitzky conceived as electromechanical show played out without the participation of the actors. They were to be replaced by electric puppets. The project was implemented. Visitors can see the sketches puppets El Lissitzky for the staging of " Victory Over the Sun ».

The final section of the exhibition devoted to the life stage of the opera in the second half of XX century. Here shown video fragments five productions of "Victory Over the Sun" directors : GI Gubanova (1989) , AM Ponomareva (1997 ), William Nickell (University of Santa Cruz , California, USA, 2006 ), N. Firtich (University Vassar , Poughkeepsie , NY , USA, 2007), pp. Sirakanian ( Hermitage Theatre, 2013 ) . Videos productions years 1989-2007 provided for the exhibition by the directors , video productions transferred to the Museum in 2013 by the International Youth Orchestra Capella " Tauris ". The exhibition is rounded up sketches of costumes and scenery for the play Malevich published in 1973 silkscreen gallery Gmurzhinska (Cologne ).

Source : spbmuseum.ru