Image Schemas as the Organizing Principle of the Operatic Direction
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The paper focuses on image schema(s) (Johnson 1987; Oakley 2007) that can be traced in the direction-scenography concept of an operatic performance within the frame of multimodality of opera performance (Hutcheon & Hutcheon, 2010). I deal with the correspondences between/amongst different modalities (e.g., Spence 2011) of the performance: music, sung text, visual component(s) of scenography, time, space, acting, etc. I analyse what image schemas can be found in the staging concepts of opera production and how these schemas organize the correspondence(s) between different modalities to convey meaning, especially the emotional. In the case study, I analyse examples of contemporary productions of the Baroque lament or lamento aria (Monteverdi, Händel), which I treat as a dramatic situation and a crucial part of concrete opera.?? Due to the complex, multimodal nature of opera theatre, I draw on several approaches, i.e., Conceptual Metaphor Theory (e.g., Kövecses 2020), Conceptual Blending Theory (Fauconnier & |
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