Opera of Postmodernism and New Challenges of Opera Critiсism

Abstract

This article focuses on the period starting from the 1970s, when opera theatre changed its aesthetics and entered the postmodernism stage. At the same time, the concept of so-called “director’s opera” started to spread. The director’s theatre was considered a new socio-cultural phenomenon and the next stage in the evolution of opera. New stages in artistic development lead to new aesthetics, and critics and commentators should be ready to face the new challenges that the operatic theatre has prepared for them. This article’s conclusions are based upon considerations of opera productions over the last 40 years.

Keywords

• director’s opera
• regietheater
• chronotope
• transculture
• postmodern