Victory Over the Sun in English

[Michael Denner]

Katherine,
There's a fair amount of material available on www.russiandrama.net,
generally about Russian drama and specifically on Pobeda nad solntsnem:
http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Drama/plays/victory/1victory.h
tml

Included there are a bit of history, costume design, a clip of
Benedetti's staging, information on ordering a copy of Benedetti's
video, and lots of biographical information on the creators of the
opera. 
~mad

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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of William Nickell
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:41 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Victory Over the Sun in English

Dear Katherine,

Here is the citation for the translation you might be looking for:
The Drama Review: TDR > Vol. 15, No. 4 (Autumn, 1971), pp. 107-125

You can find this on JSTOR.  This is a very difficult text to  
translate, and I would say this version is spotty.  It will probably  
require multiple efforts by a number of translators before we come up  
with something that does justice to the original.

If you can get your hands on a copy of the video of Robert  
Benedetti's staging of the opera, you will find the translation is  
better (though they did make cuts).  It might make for a nice video  
text for your class.  There are a few copies of this in circulation,  
but it might be hard to find--and you would probably need permission  
of the author to use it in class.

We staged parts of the opera here at UCSC last year, but in the  
original Russian.  You are welcome to see what we came up with if you  
like -- we filmed it, and our video provides English subtitles.

Bill Nickell




On Mar 5, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Katherine Lahti wrote:

> Dear Seelangers,
>
> I have reached the end of my rope trying to find my
> English-language materials for my Russian Theater
> course (last taught in 1993, to give you an idea).
>
> So where is there an English translation of "Victory
> Over the Sun"? I know I should know, and I did know 14
> years ago.
>
> -Katherine Lahti
>
> Answering off-list is not a bad idea.
>
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