Gustyakova, D. Yu. Mass Culture as a Context for an Opera Performance: P. I. Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades’ staged by A. Galibin)

Abstract: The article studies the stage version of P. I. Tchaikovsky’s opera ‘The Queen of Spades’ directed by A. Galibin from the point of view of mass culture being the context for an opera performance. The study results in the two conclusions. Firstly, it is concluded that the features of mass culture in a performance include: dominance of the reproductive beginning or over the creative one, actualization of specific behavior of a ‘mass human’ in acting, external visual appeal and formal illustrations of scenography and stage direction, absence of integrality and consistency of solutions in acting. Secondly, it is concluded that such a performance realizes the principles of mass culture: simplicity, accessibility, regularity and easy perception.

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