Opera directing in the Ukrainian Musical Theatre in 20s of 20th century
Keywords:
Ukrainian opera, Ukrainian music and drama theater, opera direction, musical criticism.Abstract
DOI: https://doi.org/10.28925/2518-766X.2018.3.6670
The article highlights the prerequisites for the formation of Ukrainian opera directing on the basis of materials from rare editions, musical criticism of the 1920s, memoirs of contemporaries, modern scientific research. The close connection of the Ukrainian opera direction with the traditions of the direction of the Ukrainian music and drama theatre is considered. The assimilation of the experience and creative achievements of the directors of the «theatre of the coryphaeuses» M. Staritsky, M. Kropiwnicki and M. Sadovsky is covered. The features of the stage life of operas of the classical repertoire on the Ukrainian opera scene of the 1920s are analysed. It is shown the widespread differences between the director’s interpretations of classical operatic works of this period with the aim of the so-called «modernizing» and “approaching the viewer”. It possess characteristic of the stage productions of the Ukrainian operas of the 1920s, the estimation of the director’s decisions of M. Bogolyubov, O. Ulukhanova, V. Manzi, E. Jungvald-Khilkevich, Yu. Lishansky, S. Butovskiy with the musical-critical thought and periodical press of this period. The importance of the productions of Ukrainian operas of the 1920s for the progressive development of national opera art and Ukrainian opera directing is proved.
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