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Opera for the Black Square, a new futuristic/dystopian opera in two acts, is a tragicomic love story of a couple swept up by a political coup attempting to survive its ramifications. Written in English, Black Square is inspired by Alexei Kryuchonykh and Mikhail Matyushin’s 1913 opera Victory over the Sun and early Soviet science-fiction. It combines linear storytelling with non-linear language, and mixes Russian avant-garde intellectual traditions with the faster-paced style of a Western action thriller. It explores the modern resonance of old prophecies, and universal themes such as personal freedom and the price of conformity.

Photos: Aleksey Antonenko, Art Newspaper Russia

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Opera for the Black Square, a new futuristic/dystopian opera in two acts, is a tragicomic love story of a couple swept up by a political coup attempting to survive its ramifications. Written in English, Black Square is inspired by Alexei Kryuchonykh and Mikhail Matyushin’s 1913 opera Victory over the Sun and early Soviet science-fiction. It combines linear storytelling with non-linear language, and mixes Russian avant-garde intellectual traditions with the faster-paced style of a Western action thriller. It explores the modern resonance of old prophecies, and universal themes such as personal freedom and the price of conformity.

Photos: Aleksey Antonenko, Art Newspaper Russia

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Opera for the Black Square, a new futuristic/dystopian opera in two acts, is a tragicomic love story of a couple swept up by a political coup attempting to survive its ramifications. Written in English, Black Square is inspired by Alexei Kryuchonykh and Mikhail Matyushin’s 1913 opera Victory over the Sun and early Soviet science-fiction. It combines linear storytelling with non-linear language, and mixes Russian avant-garde intellectual traditions with the faster-paced style of a Western action thriller. It explores the modern resonance of old prophecies, and universal themes such as personal freedom and the price of conformity.

Photos: Aleksey Antonenko, Art Newspaper Russia

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Opera for the Black Square, a new futuristic/dystopian opera in two acts, is a tragicomic love story of a couple swept up by a political coup attempting to survive its ramifications. Written in English, Black Square is inspired by Alexei Kryuchonykh and Mikhail Matyushin’s 1913 opera Victory over the Sun and early Soviet science-fiction. It combines linear storytelling with non-linear language, and mixes Russian avant-garde intellectual traditions with the faster-paced style of a Western action thriller. It explores the modern resonance of old prophecies, and universal themes such as personal freedom and the price of conformity.

Photos: Aleksey Antonenko, Art Newspaper Russia

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Opera for the Black Square, a new futuristic/dystopian opera in two acts, is a tragicomic love story of a couple swept up by a political coup attempting to survive its ramifications. Written in English, Black Square is inspired by Alexei Kryuchonykh and Mikhail Matyushin’s 1913 opera Victory over the Sun and early Soviet science-fiction. It combines linear storytelling with non-linear language, and mixes Russian avant-garde intellectual traditions with the faster-paced style of a Western action thriller. It explores the modern resonance of old prophecies, and universal themes such as personal freedom and the price of conformity.

Photos: Aleksey Antonenko, Art Newspaper Russia

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