DOI: 10.36871/hon.202102007
Authors
M. A. Sidorova
Magnitogorsk State Conservatory (Academy) named after M. I. Glinka, Magnitogorsk, Russian Federation
Abstract
Opera as an artistic whole presupposes the study of all its structural levels, including the plot — the primary and main carrier of the work's concept. In turn, the ideological concept of this genre is formed on the basis of a system of interacting thematic lines that concentrate the most important semantic structures of the plot. In the opera "A Life for the Tsar" by M. I. Glinka one of the main meaning-forming elements is the theme associated with sacred imagery sphere. The purpose of this article is to determine the ideological and artistic value of this topic. In the process of analysis, the objects of the sacred space of the opera are defined, the forms and methods of their functioning are revealed. The work is interdisciplinary in character. The folk and national origins of spiritual and religious storyline are traced, and the fact of its historical and artistic necessity is established. The research is conducted relying on philological and semantic analysis of the text, which makes it possible to identify the essential, meaning-forming lines of the plot. Thus, the article concludes on the high ideological and artistic significance of the sacred sphere of the opera's plot and expresses the idea of a deep interconnection between the sacred theme and the concept of national unity and, in general, its ability to function as a component of the structural model of the ideal world order of the country.
Keywords
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, opera "A Life for the Tsar", plot, sacred theme, national image of the world, ideological and artistic conception
