Marina Kuklinskaya

Score and Musical Performance: Dynamics of Interaction on the European Opera Stage of the 20th — Early 21st Century

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DOI 10.34690/39

Author Marina Ya. Kuklinskaya

Affiliation Vishnevskaya College of Musical and Theatrical Art, Moscow, Russia

Email mkno1@mail.ru

ORCID

0000-0002-0288-5960

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of interaction of Opera score and performance in musical theater of 20th—21st centuries. The author uses the methods of comparative and semiotics, focusing on the concept of “opera text”. The paper is concerned with two main types of interaction between musical and stage texts, which the author conditionally defines as postmodern and postdramatic. Analyzing fragments of opera scores, the author comes to the conclusion that intonation material is only part of the opera text and does not always determine the content of the performance. This becomes especially evident in the postmodern period. Modern stage practice, as well as the achievements of musical and theatrical science, allows us to consider the score as a semiotic sign, in which the signified and denoting is regulated by the director, actor and audience. At the same time, directing, acting and active audience perception in the process of decoding the score makes all these components an integral part of the opera text. In the article, the author analyzes a number of performances, proving the validity of this statement.

Keywords opera, score, musical performance, postmodernism, director’s theater

For citation

Kuklinskaya, M. “Score and Musical Performance: Dynamics of Interaction on the European Opera Stage of the 20th—Early 21st Century.” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 1, 2020, pp. 110–121, doi:10.34690/39. (In Russ.)