The aim of the presentation is to show how different Slavic operatic traditions contributed to the idea of Slavicness. After the national-waking movements of the March revolution, known as the »spring of the nations« in 1848, the question of Slavic opera was for the first time pushed in the political realities and social or ideological missions of the newly waked Slavic nations. Additionally, the Slovenian case study will reveal how these principles were after 1918 significantly re-corroborated and soaked with the newly invented collective “Slavic spirit”.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1498067The paper contemplates the relationship between opera and anthropology. Focus is on opera as a pertinent object of anthropological investigation. It will highlight some theoretical, epistemological and conceptual orientations by which anthropologists can explore and experience operatic worlds. As a field site, the Slovenian opera habitus (the Ljubljana and Maribor Opera Houses) will be particularly emphasized.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1582547This paper is dedicated to Claude Lévi-Strauss and his structural reading of opera as metaphorical ‘composing’ of an anthropological grand opera, materialized in the four-volume study of Mythologiques, which refers to Wagner’s tetralogy of The Ring. However, the paper extends the discussion on Lévi-Strauss to a broader historical picture of the relationship between opera and mythology as two symbolic systems of European culture.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1498067