Publication details
Režijně-scénografická pojetí jevištního díla Claudia Monteverdiho v brněnských inscenacích
| Title in English | Directorial-scenographic Concepts of Claudio Monteverdi's Stage Works in Brno Productions |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Slovenské divadlo |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.sav.sk/index.php?lang=sk&doc=journal-list&part=article_response_page&journal_article_no=28530 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/sd-2022-0014 |
| Keywords | Claudio Monteverdi; Miloš Wasserbauer; Alena Vaňáková; Vladimír John; theatre; opera; Brno |
| Description | The study deals with selected Brno productions of the music-drama works of Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), paying special attention to the legacy of the directing school of the Czechoslovak opera director Miloš Wasserbauer (1907 - 1970), who worked mainly in Brno and in the 1950s also in Bratislava. The study is based on author's research focused on the staging of Claudio Monteverdi's works on Czech territory from the first productions to the present (2022). Since some of Monteverdi's stage works have been newly staged in the Czech Republic in recent years, the author asks what themes are presented to the audience through these works, or what staging challenges these works pose, especially in the field of directorial-scenographic conception. The first part of the study looks back to the past of the 20th century, in which it finds the first encounter of Czechoslovak theatre artists with Monteverdi. The second part of the study focuses on the present, in particular on a new Monteverdi project by a student of opera direction at the JAMU Faculty of Music, which was created in the spring of 2022 at Studio Devítka. On the basis of archival materials for the productions, interviews with survivors and contemporary stagers, it presents the possibilities of stage interpretation of Monteverdi's works in relation to the changing awareness and ideas about Baroque opera theatre and its contemporary staging practice. The study asks what themes or motifs are important to pro-stagers in presenting these roughly four hundred-year-old works to today's audiences. |
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