The director's concept of the opera performance through the prism of modern theater aesthetics

Abstract

The aim of the study. Rethinking conceptual approaches to creating a director's concept for an opera performance through the prism of modern theatrical aesthetics.
The object is to determine modern transformations of opera performances as the results of experimentation in the field of musical theatre of young directors of Ukraine.
The methodology of research consists of an integrated approach to solving the problem of modern directorial incarnations of opera performances; it involves the use of a system and analytical method to study the factors of influence on modifications in musical theatre and a structural-functional one – to determine the concept of a director's intention in the relationship of its structural elements.
The relevance of the study due to the need to comply with the method of work on the performance developed by many generations of directors in the context of the search for new forms of musical and theatrical art in the context of postmodern aesthetics.
Findings and conclusions. The article examines the latest trends in the development of the European opera house, their influence on the formation of repertoire policy in Ukraine. The search for new forms of musical and stage art at the junctions of theatrical genres, the increasing role of provocative forms of displaying life, the break of modern methods of expression with classical ones are investigated. The process of transformation of opera performances is analyzed through the prism of modern theatrical aesthetics, experimentation of young creators. The dualistic nature of the director's concept of an opera performance and its characteristic features have been clarified. The directorial content of staging a musical performance in modern socio-cultural realities has been established. The importance of cooperation between the director and the conductor in the development of the concept of the future performance and its implementation is outlined. The structure of the director's idea and the content of its components have been determined. In the experimental works of young directors, the interpretation of a stage work as a creative definition and concretization by the director of the super-task, the end-to-end action of the performance, clarification of the genre and style features of the work, the main and secondary conflict of drama is characterized. The crown of the director's intention is highlighted - the formation of the contours, the main components and components of the general stage image of the performance. Conditional, polyphonic, metaphorical in the art of theatre are emphasized, which, by means of associative transformation, shape the life stream of reality into an artistic and stage image. It is proved that the concept as a generalized creative intention of the future performance gives the process of its creation a specific directorial format, determines the direction of the search for expressive means, and contributes to the formation of its integral artistic and stage image.