did you know that there was an opera about destroying the sun written and performed in 1913

aka14kgold:

amelancholycharm:

pilferingapples:

orlofsky:

saint-arthur:

because there totally was, it’s called “victory over the sun”

Well, I do now.

Oh my god 

THE DRAMATIS PERSONAE ALONE

Two Futurist Strongmen
Nero and Caligula
A Time Traveller
A Malevolent
A Willbeite Machine Gun
A Fightpicker
Belligerent Soldiers
Sportsmen
Chorus
Pallbearers
A Telephone Talker

NERO AND CALIGULA
WHAT IS THIS PLAY

ALSO

the description of the original 1913 performance sounds pretty rad:

Победа над Cолнцем is fucking priceless. I still wish I’d been around for the BAM production.