ТЕАТР С. СКАРБКА / М. ЗАНЬКОВЕЦЬКОЇ АРХІТЕКТУРНО - КУЛЬТУРНА КОЛИСКА ЛЬВОВА, РЕАЛІЇ, ЛЕГЕНДИ І ФАКТИ

Abstract

The article highlights various aspects of the development of the architectural network of theater buildings and spaces in Lviv before the construction of the Count S. Skarbko Theater in 1842, as well as all the legendary and real events related to its design, construction, and operation against the background of theatrical and architectural artistic, cultural, and political events in the city and Europe from the early nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. For 180 years since the beginning of its creative activity, the S. Skarbko/M. Zankovetska Theater and its building have been the subject and object of research not only by scholars from Ukraine, Poland, and Austria-historians, art historians, architects, and playwrights-but also have become the source of many legends that are still of interest to its fans around the world in the twenty-first century. The purpose of the article is to highlight the phenomenon of the S. Skarbko / M. Zankovetska Theater in such a way as to confirm or refute some of the legends that have accumulated since its construction and until the beginning of the twenty-first century and to highlight the theater as an architectural and cultural phenomenon of the city of Lviv and Europe. According to the authors, theater is probably the most powerful manifestation of the level of culture in society. Today we are witnessing and participating in the revival and defense of the Ukrainian nation, its memory, faith, spirit and culture in the bloody war unleashed by Russia. And this is also impossible without theatrical activities, and in particular, such institutions as the S. Skarbko/M. Zankovetska Theater, which has been a true temple of true art for 180 years and is an important cultural center for all nationalities and religions in Lviv. It is a prominent cultural coordinate in Europe, just like its architectural forerunners, the La Scala and Dresden Opera houses. Such an architectural treasure requires proper care, which, of course, will never be possible to accomplish solely through the efforts of the theater's management and company.