Victory over the Sun

The opera has become notable as the event where Malevich made his first Black Square, as part of a design for a curtain.

The plot concerns a group of protagonists who want to destroy reason, by disposing of time and capturing the Sun.

[1] The opera was intended to underline parallels between literary text, musical score, and the art of painting, and featured a cast of such extravagant characters as Nero and Caligula in the Same Person, Traveller through All the Ages, Telephone Talker, The New Ones, etc.

[2] The original 1980 English translation of the opera by poet Larissa Shmailo was performed for the celebrated reconstruction of the First Futurist Opera at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as well as the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

[3] It was performed in full staging with digital sets and synthesized music at Boston University 23 April 2015.