Опера П.И. Чайковского «Пиковая дама» в свете поэтики погребального обряда

Abstract

Tchaikovsky's opera «The Queen of Spades» is considered in the context of the poetics of the funeral rite. The correspondences between the musical and ritual text can be traced at the level of the concept (comprehension of the phenomenon of death as a spatial displacement, transition from one's own to someone else's), and its embodiment. Parallels can be seen in the interpretation of the structure of texts (the unfolding of the opera's thanatalogical plot unfolds according to the rites de passage scheme: separation — intermediate period — joining), intra-textual structures (interpretations of the key form of dialogues representing the struggle of life and death, the idea of a difficult path), symbolic functions (one's own/life, someone else's/death, staying between one's own and someone else's). Special attention is paid to the analysis of the semantic motives of the opera, identical to the motives of the funeral rite at each of its stages (end, dying, farewell, alienation, omen — at the first, movement, transition — at the second, redistribution of the share — at the third). Consideration of the «Queen of Spades» in a mythopoetic perspective reveals the com­poser's composition in a new light.