Ideology of the Opera Diva in the Case of the Opera of the National Theatre in Belgrade
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https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i10.132Keywords:
ideology, opera diva, repertory theater, the audience, Opera of the National Theatre in BelgradeAbstract
The theme of this work refers to the study of opera’s diva system or the way in
which an opera diva can affect (or not) the development of repertory theater. The idea is that
through a variety of approaches – musicology, history, sociology – one finds those aspects that
are caused to develop the concept of an opera diva. The thesis from my starting point is that
the West-European practice of the first half of the 19th century was recognized in the work of
the Opera of the National Theatre in Belgrade after its Golden period (1954–1969) when the
system of the opera’s stars formed in Serbia. The goal of this work is to present a part of the
repertoire policies of the National Theatre related to the possible impact of opera divas in the
formation of the repertoire and vice versa.
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