Victorine
Libretto: Art & Language
Music: Mayo Thompson
Background
Café Twenty-One is a an early version of the concept.
Written summer 1983
Published March 1984 in Art-Language Vol. 5 No. 2
See also: Art & Language: Interview with Victorine Meurend
Contents
3 acts, 4 scenes per act
Performances
- Planned video-taped performance on television 1980s?
- Excerpts: P3 Art and Environment October 7, 1994
- Excerpts: Whitney Biennial 2012
Recording
- 1999: "One of his current projects, with sound artist Marina Rosenfeld, is the completion of the music for their "opera" Victorine"
- 2006: "Thompson is also confident that the opera Victorine will be ready for production in 2007, more than 20 years after its original libretto was published in Art-Language."[1]
Libretto
| Publication | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Art-Language Vol. 5 No. 2 | English | |
| 1993 | French | ||
| 2000 | Art-Language Facsimile Edition | English | [2] |
| 2018 | Art & Language: Reality (Dark) Fragments (Light) | English/French | [3] |
| 2020 | Art & Language: Home From Home Kit D'exposition | French | Download |