The artistic and communicative dimension of opera in modern musicological discourse

Abstract

The article examines artistic and communicative dimension of opera in the context of modern musicological discourse. Opera is interpreted as a multi-level communicative system, within which musical,

verbal, scenic, and socio-cultural components interact. The relevance of the study is due to the transformations of the modern cultural environment, development of information and communication technologies, and the formation of new models of artistic reception, which contribute to the expansion of functional capabilities of opera and its integration into the global cultural space. The aim of the study is a comprehensive understanding of opera as a specific form of artistic communication and the identification of its informational and semiotic, intonation-semantic and socio-cultural mechanisms. The work uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines hermeneutic, semiotic, structural-functional, and socio-cultural methods of analysis. This methodology allows considering a musical text as a special type of information code, which is implemented in the process of performing interpretation and perception. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the role of intonation semantics, musical and theatrical dramaturgy, and performance practices as the main mechanisms of artistic meaning-making. It is shown that opera art functions as a space of dialogical interaction between the author, performer, and listener, in which the transmission of cultural memory and the formation of collective emotional and value experience are carried out. As a result of the study, comprehension of opera as a model of artistic communication that combines traditional cultural forms with modern information processes is substantiated. It is proved that the modern functioning of opera art is associated with the formation of new communicative strategies and the expansion of the receptive space, which contributes to the preservation of its relevance in the conditions of globalized culture -