Denisov Andrey Vladimirovich, 

Doctor of Arts, Professor, 

Russian State Pedagogical 

  University 

e-mail: denisow_andrei@mail.ru 

 

Philosophy of Culture in a New Key. Review of E.N.Shapinskaya's book 

"Selected Works on Philosophy of Culture"

 

Abstract: The article is a review of the monograph by E.N. Shapinskaya "Philosophy of Culture in a New key". The main theoretic problems regarded in the work have been examined, the outline of its content has been given. Special attention is paid to a number of key questions analyzed in the monograph, including the position of the opera genre in contemporary culture (in particular its interpretation in the production as a representation of different sociocultural strategies), and different forms of its mythologization.

 

Key words: philosophy, music, opera, interpretation, text, culture

 

[1] See, eg.: Donington R. The Rise of Opera. London & Boston: Faber a. Faber, 1981; Kirillina L. Orphism and Opera // Academy of Music. 1992, № 4.

[2] Among the rare examples of successful modernization of stage solution is staging of J.-F. Rameau’s "Plateau" at L'Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg (2010), solved in the exaggeratedly grotesque, parody manner.

[3] Goryachikh V. "The Golden Cockerel" by Rimsky-Korsakov - "Fiction in Person" (On the Problem of Genre and Style) // Pushkin in Russian opera. St. Petersburg, 1998.