Characteristic Aspects of Functioning of the Modern Opera Theater in the Cultural and Creative Area of China

Abstract

The aim of the papers deals with the modern opera theater as a polystructural, cultural and artistic phenomenon. An integral interpretive model of the opera theater is formed as the basis  of  modern  opera  creative  practice  and  the  realization  of  the  artistic  and aesthetic concepts of the opera and theatrical art.Research methodology. The offered paradigm of study of the definition of modern opera theater allows connecting culturological, praxeological and hermeneutic approaches in the context of musicological discourse.Results. The author studies an opera repertoire as the necessary basis of activities of modern opera theater, finds the leading category of confutation in the concept of repertoire. The repertoire constants of modern opera work, traditional and innovative directions of opera repertoire are determined. Repertoire bases of modern foreign opera theater are characterized; approaches to a repertoire factual account of modern Ukrainian opera theater are developed.Novelty. The opera house in China is built into the system of concert-theater and entertainment complex. Thus, the modern opera house is a polystyrene cultural and artistic entertainment and commercial complex and a functional part of the metropolis, in which various state programs of support of artistic events under the conditions of a globalized cultural environment are implemented.The practical significance. The key results of this research can be used in the lessons of performing skills, as well as in the series of lectures «Music Culture of Foreign Countries».Keywords: opera theater, cultural sphere, opera and theater culture of modern China, contemporary Chinese opera.