Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine – National Opera of Ukraine: interaction as a factor of the development of opera art

Abstract

The relevance of the study is conditioned by the traditionally important creative interaction of opera theaters with music academies in the issue of development of opera art in Ukraine. Especially fruitful cooperation has developed for many decades between the Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theater of Ukraine and the P. TchaikovskyNational Music Academy of Ukraine. It serves as a vivid example of such interaction. The Academy carries out training of highly professional specialists for the theater (singers, actors, symphony orchestras and choirs, conductors, music directors, etc.) and from the theater to the scientific and pedagogical work are invited leading masters of the opera scene who have attained high creative achievements and recognition at the national and international levels. Logical continuity of generations in the field of opera art is a result of such kind of artistic «symbiosis». In turn practical activity, educational process, methodical scientific conceptions are serving as the basis for the development of national performing schools.The main objective of the study is to investigate and highlight the actual issues of creative relationships and fruitful interaction between two leading Ukrainian institutions in the field of culture and arts and to reveal the interdependence between them.The methodology of the research is to apply analytical, functional, comparative and art-study methods of research for determination of interdependence and basic directions of creative interaction of the opera theater and the music academy. The data concerning graduates of the Academy (singers-actors, conductors, choirmaster, directors) who works at the artistic staff of Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine and combine work at the theatre with scientific and pedagogical activities at the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine or artistic work in Opera Studio are presents in summary tables.Conclusions. As a result of the research, it has been established that Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine and the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine are particularly important in the socio-cultural space of Ukraine due to the multifaceted creative and professional activity. The educational, cultural and artistic work, as the main function of both institutions, promotes cultural and spiritual development of the individual.The above-indicated shows that the results of creative cooperation and fruitful interaction between the National Opera of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Pyotr Tchaikovsky is difficult to overestimateThe above-indicated shows that the results of creative cooperation and fruitful interaction of the Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theater of Ukraine and the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine P. Tchaikovsky is difficult to overestimate because they are the leading institutions in Ukraine in the field of highly professional creative achievements.