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Preface, strany: 11-12  Full text
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Publishers: Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Theatre and Film Research, VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Book type: edited book
Published: 13. 6. 2022
Edition year: 2018
Pages: 214
Language: English
ISBN 978-80-224-1705-1 (print), ISBN 978-80-224-1705-1 (online)
Public license: Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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In: Theatre as a Value-based Discourse Slovak Theatre and Contemporary European Theatre Culture: Conference Proceedings from the International Scientific Conference 5th and 6th of October 2017 Bratislava, Slovakia
Michaela Mojžišová

The Picture of a Family Crisis and the Criticism of Patriarchy in the Works of Director Peter Konwitschny

This article captures selected aspects of the productions of opera director Peter Konwitschny (1945), whose signature style is rigorously characterized by social criticism, political engagement, and moral appeal. Among the themes invariably present in his works are distorted and pathological family and partner relationships, and a critical questioning of the patriarchal arrangement of the world. The analysis of the above motifs present in Konwitschny’s production draws on examples from several productions put on European stages: (Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin [Eugene Onegin]; Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Bohéma [La Bohème]; Verdi: Attila, La traviata; Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk; Janáček: Vec Makropulos, [The Makropulos Affair], Jenůfa; Halévy: Židovka [La Juive]; Egk: Peer Gynt; Strauss: Elektra; and Cherubini: Medea).
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Pages: 152 - 166
Language: anglický
Edition year: 2018
Keywords:
opera theatre, Peter Konwitschny, the family, partner relationships, patriarchal society
Public license:Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.