BRANISLAV KRIŠKA A JEHO PRÍNOS DO OPERNO-TEORETICKÉHO DISKURZU

• Authors: Madunická Klára

Title variants

EN

Branislav Kriška and his contribution to the discourse on opera theory

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with theoretical discourse in the field of opera in Slovakia. It focuses on the director Branislav Kriška, whom musicologists and theatrologist consider to be the most significant and, from the aspect of the aesthetic formation of the musical theatrical art, the most influential Slovak opera director of the latter half of the twentieth century. His theoretical articles published in specialized journals and programme booklets and his monograph on Giacomo Puccini, operas in the verismo style, and their staging practices, are not only valuable materials for understanding the director’s staging signature but, in the context of twentieth-century Slovak opera theatre, they represent a unique theoretical activity of a practicing theatre maker. Kriška drew on Walter Felsenstein’s concept of stage performance and his understanding of musical theatre as a musical dramatic scenic art, in which the staging and the vocal performance elements are complementary and equal.

Keywords

EN

BRANISLAV KRIŠKA; WALTER FELSENSTEIN; OPERA; THEATROLOGY; MUSIC THEATRE

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 134 – 147

Contributors

author

Madunická Klára

• Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy CVU SAV, v. v. i., Dúbravská cesta 9, 84104 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0192-2229

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/sd-2023-0011