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SNO TALK NO.1
Presented by SNO. January 2024.
‘Opera Victorine, 1984’ performed by Anthea Duffy, Jesse Hogan, and Ruark Lewis for SNO 174.
Art & Language: Interview with Victorine Meurend is a fictional conversation between Victorine Meurend, the model who posed most frequently for the painter Édouard Manet and the Art & Language collective. This four-act detective opera was composed by British conceptual artists Art & Language. It was created in English in the summer of 1983 and published in the collective's journal, Art-Language, volume 5, n°2 of March 1984. The French translation of the opera was first published in 1993 by the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume on the occasion of the Art & Language exhibition.
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