Opera Culture in Stage and Screen Discourse. Part 2. Directors’ interpretations of opera performers’ biographies

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to determine the specifics of directors’ means of interpreting the creative biographies of opera singers in the theatrical and audiovisual sphere. Research methodology. The methodological basis of scientific studies is the culturological approach. A comprehensive study of directors’ interpretations of the life and creative path of opera performers against the background of artistic culture required the use of an interdisciplinary approach in combination with culturological and art history analysis, which helped to effectively organise search factual materials. The use of a historical and culturological approach made it possible to consider the biographies of opera singers, composers, opera performances and films in the context of the development of artistic culture. Content analysis was useful for studying the collective co-creation of the director with the scriptwriter, artist, cameraman, and actors in the coverage of the creative biography of opera singers on the screen. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the argumentation of the potential of interaction and mutual exchange, of musical, theatrical and audiovisual arts in terms of rethinking the biographies of opera performers; in identifying the features of directorial interpretations of opera singers’ biographies in the stage and screen context, which for the first time became the subject of professional research. Conclusions. It is argued that with the help of directorial and artistic techniques in feature and documentary films, it is possible not only to popularise the life and work of opera performers among a wide audience, but also to manifest the possibilities of modern technologies in the creation and reproduction of opera, the work of composers, conductors, opera singers.