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Butterflies on Sweet Land? Reflections on Opera at the Edges of History
Representations ( IF 0.442 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 , DOI: 10.1525/rep.2021.154.6.69
Gundula Kreuzer

Taking inspiration from Kalle Pihlainen’s philosophy of historical representation, this essay explores some of the ways in which operatic performance can harness the ambiguity between the genre’s historicist and presentist implications to mobilize not just the difference of the past from the present but also their connection. The essay focuses on two recent examples—Heartbeat Opera’s Butterfly (New York, 2017) and The Industry’s Sweet Land (Los Angeles, 2020)—whose unconventional presentations critically engage such temporal complexity. Moving beyond the proscenium and crucially involving the music in their directorial visions, both couch history’s grip on the present in terms of the consequences of past actions. By self-staging their differences from mainstream opera-house productions, moreover, both explore whether opera can still aspire to sociopolitical relevance today. Though Butterfly tackles a controversial repertory staple, while the immersive and site-specific Sweet Land enlists the operatic genre itself to probe various modes of historical imagination, both expose continuities of historical racism in contemporary US culture. Their blurring of lines between past and present prevents audiences from confining racist positions to the operas’ allegedly historical plots: instead of presenting past alterity, the productions reveal transhistorical semblance. Opera thus becomes a medium for performing the multidimensionality and open-endedness of history.

中文翻译:

甜蜜土地上的蝴蝶?历史边缘的歌剧反思

从 Kalle Pihlainen 的历史再现哲学中汲取灵感,本文探讨了歌剧表演如何利用该流派的历史主义和现在主义含义之间的模糊性,不仅调动过去与现在的差异,而且调动它们之间的联系。这篇文章重点关注了最近的两个例子——心跳歌剧的蝴蝶(纽约,2017 年)和行业的甜蜜之地(洛杉矶,2020 年)——它们的非传统展示批判性地涉及了这种时间复杂性。超越舞台,将音乐重要地纳入他们的导演愿景中,两者都根据过去行为的后果来把握现在。此外,通过自我展示他们与主流歌剧院作品的差异,两者都探讨了歌剧在今天是否仍能追求社会政治相关性。尽管《蝴蝶》处理了一个有争议的剧目主食,而身临其境和特定地点的甜蜜土地则利用歌剧类型本身来探索各种历史想象模式,两者都揭示了当代美国文化中历史种族主义的连续性。他们模糊了过去和现在之间的界限,使观众无法将种族主义立场局限在歌剧所谓的历史情节中:这些作品没有呈现过去的异质性,而是揭示了跨历史的表象。歌剧因此成为表现历史的多维性和开放性的媒介。而身临其境和特定地点的 Sweet Land 则利用歌剧类型本身来探索各种历史想象模式,两者都揭示了当代美国文化中历史种族主义的连续性。他们模糊了过去和现在之间的界限,使观众无法将种族主义立场局限在歌剧所谓的历史情节中:这些作品没有呈现过去的异质性,而是揭示了跨历史的表象。歌剧因此成为表现历史的多维性和开放性的媒介。而身临其境和特定地点的 Sweet Land 则利用歌剧类型本身来探索各种历史想象模式,两者都揭示了当代美国文化中历史种族主义的连续性。他们模糊了过去和现在的界限,使观众无法将种族主义立场局限在歌剧所谓的历史情节中:这些作品没有呈现过去的异质性,而是揭示了跨历史的表象。歌剧因此成为表现历史的多维性和开放性的媒介。这些作品揭示了跨历史的外表。歌剧因此成为表现历史的多维性和开放性的媒介。这些作品揭示了跨历史的外表。歌剧因此成为表现历史的多维性和开放性的媒介。
更新日期:2021-01-01
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