Victory Over The Sun: an opera
Schedule
Fri Oct 14 2022 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm
Location
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Canberra, CT
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Join Justene Williams with Sydney Chamber Opera and ANU Chamber Singers for Victory Over the Sun: an operaTWO NIGHTS ONLY
6pm, Fri 14 Oct & Sat 15 Oct
https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/justene-williams/
The original Russian Futurist opera Victory Over The Sun premiered in 1913 at the Luna Park in Saint Petersburg, with the costume and set design by avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich. It was an artistic revolution. It caused a riot.
In 2016, contemporary artist Justene Williams gave the old opera new life - designing costumes and restaging the work with the Sydney Chamber Opera at Cocktatoo Island for the 20th Biennale of Sydney. The performances sold out.
Now in 2022, the National Gallery has acquired Williams' costumes, and the opera itself will be restaged in Canberra for two nights only this October.
Victory is a work of passionate strangeness for the digital age that shows us worlds the Futurists could never have imagined. Drones soar, history collapses, and a pair of strongwomen battle over humanity's fate in a glorious dream of tomorrow.
Image: Justene Williams, Strong Woman from Victory over the Sun (performance documentation), 2016, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2021 © Justene Williams. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Gadigal Nura/Sydney
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