Grechaninov's Sister Beatrice and the Consecration of the Stage in Orthodox Russia

IF 0.3 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC
David Salkowski
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Abstract When Alexander Grechaninov's opera Sister Beatrice on a text by Maurice Maeterlinck premiered in Moscow in 1912, it promised to bring together two conceptual worlds, those of symbolist aesthetics and the Russian Orthodox liturgy. Critics who hoped that Grechaninov's experience as a composer of sacred music would help bring alive the ‘unheard music’ of Maeterlinck's symbolist ‘Miracle Play’, however, were sorely disappointed. The opera drew scorn from critics for its overly concrete musical rhetoric, while conservative commentators levelled claims of blasphemy. In this article, I consider the two scenes depicting miracles in Sister Beatrice to demonstrate how it negotiated these competing perspectives, employing insights from religious philosophy as well as symbolist aesthetics. Drawing on new archival evidence, I also demonstrate how church and state censors co-participated with composers and critics debating whether and how the sacred might be displayed on stage and in sound.
格雷查尼诺夫的《比阿特丽斯修女》与俄罗斯东正教舞台的神圣化
1912年,亚历山大·格雷查尼诺夫的歌剧《比阿特丽斯修女》在莫斯科首演时,它承诺将两个概念世界结合在一起,即象征主义美学和俄罗斯东正教礼拜仪式。评论家们希望格雷查尼诺夫作为一名神圣音乐作曲家的经历能帮助梅特林克的象征主义“奇迹演奏”带来“闻所未闻的音乐”,然而,他们非常失望。这部歌剧因其过于具体的音乐修辞而受到评论家的嘲笑,而保守派评论家则声称这是亵渎。在这篇文章中,我考虑了《比阿特丽斯修女》中描绘奇迹的两个场景,以展示它是如何利用宗教哲学和象征主义美学的见解来协调这些相互竞争的观点的。利用新的档案证据,我还展示了教会和国家审查者如何与作曲家和评论家共同参与辩论是否以及如何在舞台上和声音中展示神圣的东西。
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期刊介绍: Containing lively and provocative essays, Cambridge Opera Journal has a well-established reputation for publishing first-rate scholarship on opera in all its manifestations. The Journal not only contains material on all aspects of the European canon, it has now widened its scope to publish high-quality essays on American opera and musical theatre, on non-Western music theatres, and on contemporary works. Carefully researched and often illustrated with music examples and pictures, articles adopt a wide spectrum of critical approaches. As well as major articles, each issue generally includes reviews on recent publications of importance in the field.
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