Reception of G. Rossini's Opera 'Guglielmo Tell' in Russian and Soviet Musical Culture

摘要

Staging history of the most famous European operas on the Russian stage and especially their perception by the public is the one of the little-studied problem. In the meanwhile European opera culture and first of all its most important examples have aroused constant interest by the performers, were very popular among public attracted attention from Russian composers, journalists, critics. Archival documents, news-papers and magazine publications, epistolary and memoirs and fiction literature allow recreating reliable historical picture of the "Russian destinies" of European opera masterworks. Among "special cases" of such a reception is the last opera of Rossini, whose destiny in the Russian culture turned out to be very bizarre. It's stage appearances were influenced by censorship conditions of the Tzar Russia and ideological demands of the Soviet period. The reception process of this opera in the composers' artwork - from dramaturgic solutions to the choice of stylistic tools - is of special interest. Proposed scientific report will cover the following questions: which features of Rossini's masterpiece have influenced emergence of creative ideas of the Russian composers from Glinka to Prokofiev and Shostakovich as well as the authors of the "second row". The report's aim is to try to answer the question - why this masterpiece took such a distinctive place in the Russian culture and won the respect of Russian opera public and musical circles. This question will be investigated in the context of "Ital'yanshchina" and French "grand opera" problems in the Russian and Soviet music.