Самодеятельный музыкальный театр Дальнего Востока России (1940 – 1980‑е гг.)

Abstract

This article undertakes the first systematic study of the amateur music and theatre art of the Soviet Far East. Based on a wide range of unknown sources, the author traces the development and creative activity of the amateur music and theatre groups in the Magadan Region, Khabarovsk and Primorsky territories. Such theatre activity is considered by the author as one of the non-stationary form of the Far Eastern music theatre. As a result of the study, the author identifies general trends in the development of amateur musical theatres in all regions of the Far East: the heyday of activity is connected with the end of the 1950s –1960s; increased attention to the Soviet and local repertoire, the presence in the repertoires of the Ukrainian national operas, Russian and Soviet operas, Soviet and European operettas, independent solution of the problems of training and education of personnel, solving the problem of cultural services for remote territories.Conclusions are drawn about the representation of amateur music theatre in the regions of the Far Eastern music theatre system that developed before the early 1940s. There is also mentioned a problem of considering the amateur music and theatre art in the Russian Far East being a part of the music theatre life of the regions within the framework of their music and theatre culture.