Czech Theatrical Imagination in Teatro alla Scala : František Tröster and Miloš Wasserbauer’s Production of Katerina Izmailova (1964)
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities : Musicologica |
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| Web | https://www.vydavatelstviupol.cz/cz/000102200992 |
| Keywords | Katerina Izmajlova; Dmitri Shostakovich; Miloš Wasserbauer; František Tröster; theatre; opera; opera direction; scenography |
| Description | The article is focused on Miloš Wasserbauer’s and František Tröster’s two productions of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera Katerina Izmailova in State Theatre in Brno and Teatro alla Scala in 1964. The author deals with the interpretation of the opera, the direction-scenography concept, and reception and historical context of the productions. In the sixties in former Czechoslovakia, theatre director Wasserbauer and scenographer Tröster represented the operatic staging practice that substantially relied on progressive tendencies in direction and scenography. The author analyses the direction-scenography concept of the productions which represent the shift in theatrical imagination of operatic staging practice of the era. |
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