Ruthless polyphony and audible silences : musico-dramatic narrative in Otakar Zich's Vina

• Authors: Brian S. Locke
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Otakar Zich's opera Vina [Guilt] met with contentious criticism at its premiere in 1922. Nevertheless, its score demonstrates many of the concepts of musico-dramatic narrative outlined in his seminal text, The Aesthetics of Dramatic Art, specifically that of multivocality – the multiple modes of communication perceived through time in continuous unfolding. Vina also employs concepts of silence and sound that resonate with Vladimir Jankélévitch's Music and the Ineffable.

Keywords

EN

opera history; musico-dramatic narrative; Otakar Zich; Vladimir Jankélévitch

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
• Journal: Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 62-80
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Brian S. Locke

• Theatralia, redakce, Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra divadelních studií, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic