Art in the Age of Globalisation: Dialogue of Cultures (Ural Opera Ballet Theatre’s Production of the Opera Tri Sestry)

  • Andrey G. Shishkin Ural Opera Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  • Olga O. Morozova Ural Opera Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg, Russia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15826/csp.2020.4.4.112

Abstract

The article explores the dialogics of art and the role of art as a tool of dialogue between cultures on the example of the Ural Opera Ballet Theatre’s recent stage production of the opera Tri Sestry (Three Sisters), which demonstrates a successful interaction between different cultural traditions.
Interpreting Chekhov’s play from a late 20th century perspective, Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös presented new responses to the questions that tormented the play’s characters one hundred years ago. In his work, which blends French and German avant-garde techniques with structural elements drawn from film narrative and the Japanese Noh theatre tradition, he added a radically new dimension to Chekhov’s play. As a result, he was able to open up latent meanings the play within the great time space proposed by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin. In turn, Christopher Alden (USA), the Artistic Director of the Ural Opera Ballet production, merged voices from different artistic traditions into a new contemporary musical image.

Author Biographies

Andrey G. Shishkin, Ural Opera Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Andrey G. Shishkin was born in Ufa (Russia, Bashkortostan). In 1983, he graduated from the Ufa Aviation Institute, where he majored in Economics and Organisation of Production. In 2016, he graduated from the Yekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art where he majored in Management Technologies in the Cultural Sector. In 2019, he completed a further education course graduating with a teaching certificate in vocational and supplementary vocational education. From 2016, he has been an external doctorate student of the Department for Cultural Studies, Social and Research Activities, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia. His PhD thesis topic is: “Dialogue of Cultures: Production in the Management System of the Contemporary Opera Theatre (Ural Opera-Ballet case study)”.

Andrey Shishkin has been working in the cultural sector since 1985. His previous positions include Chief Accountant (1985–1989) and Director (1998–2001) of the Bashkir Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Ufa); Director of the Ostrovsky Kostroma State Drama Theatre (1989–1990); Chief Accountant of the Ministry of Culture and National Policy of Bashkortostan; Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Bashkortostan (1990–1992); Director of the Bashkir Opera and Ballet Theatre (2001–2006). Since 2006, he has been the Managing Director of the Ural Opera Ballet Theatre (Yekaterinburg, Russia). Andrey Shishkin is the Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Olga O. Morozova, Ural Opera Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Olga O. Morozova was born in Baku (Azerbaijan). In 2004, she graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Bashkir State University (Ufa, Russia) with an MSc in Philology and a teaching certificate. In 2013, she graduated from the Faculty of Theatre Studies (dramatic workshop led by Natalia Skorokhod) at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (St. Petersburg) with an MSc in Theatre Arts. She participated in the drama laboratory of the 2013 Harlequin All-Russian Festival of Theatre Arts for Children and the first reading at the Alexander Volodin Five Evenings Festival (St. Petersburg, 2014).

Olga works as a journalist and chief editor for the publications “Rampa. Culture of Bashkortostan” (Ufa), “EKB.Sobaka.ru” (Yekaterinburg) and “Stolnik” (Ufa). Since 2015, she has been a leading specialist at the Editorial and Publishing Department of the Ural Opera Ballet Theatre (Yekaterinburg, Russia). Currently, she is an external doctoral student at the Department for Cultural Studies, Social and Research Activities, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Her PhD thesis topic is: “The Opera Libretto as a Text of Musical Culture”.

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Published
2020-12-29
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Shishkin, A., & Morozova, O. (2020). Art in the Age of Globalisation: Dialogue of Cultures (Ural Opera Ballet Theatre’s Production of the Opera Tri Sestry). Changing Societies & Personalities, 4(4), 476–491. doi:10.15826/csp.2020.4.4.112
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