О влиянии перформативных черт авангардного театра на документальную оперу

Abstract

Documentary qualities in the art of music are among of the bright, interesting and little researched phenomena of modernity. Having been generated in the sphere of cinema and drama theater, the present tendency also became circulated in the sphere of musical theater. The introduction of documentary innovative materials – verbal and audio – into the artistic context of works written in the opera genre substantially transformed the traditional structure of musical performance. The article ascertains that the source of such types of experimental attempts was the elaboration of the avant-garde dramatic theater, whose producers made broad use of the techniques of performative art. This became the artistic orientation for documentary musical theater. Analysis of the stage endeavors of theatrical producers Erwin Piscator, Giorgio Strehler, Andrei Serban and Peter Sellars has made it possible to bring to light the vectors of impact of avant-garde theater on the musical documentary theater, which broadly applied the principles of performativity. Accentuation is made of the role of contemporary computer technologies, which gave the opportunities to producers and composers to obtain an instrumentarium that is broad in its artistic resources and inclination towards synthesis, to realize the performative forms of presentation of musical theater. The new features include minimalistic scenography, political allusions, the extension of time and space, and special forms of interaction with the audience. Their appropriation by musical documentary theater proves the force of impact of avant-garde artistic practices, which have greatly transformed opera traditions.