VÍZIE ADOLPHE APPIU

• Authors: Miloš Mistrík

Title variants

EN

Visions of Adolphe Appia

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Adolphe Appia made many contributions to modern theatre direction. He authored some, although not many, theatre productions, and wrote books and studies. He drew his own sketches of what the productions he would make would be like. He focused especially on Richard Wagner’s musical dramas and theoretically proposed how the so-called Wagnerian drama (a term that he used as an equivalent of Wagner’s Wort-Tondrama) should be staged. The present study recapitulates his fundamental ideas about music, stage space, painting, light, actors and directors. Later Appia collaborated with Émile Jaques-Dalcroze and synthesized his knowledge in the book entitled The Work of Living Art. It is best expressed by a quote from Friedrich Schiller: “When music reaches its most sublime effect, it becomes a shape in space.”

Keywords

EN

ADOLPHE APPIA; RICHARD WAGNER; DIRECTION; SWISS THEATRE; SCENOGRAPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 315 - 327

Contributors

author

Miloš Mistrík

• Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic