“GIANNI SKIKKI” BY G. PUCCHINI IN THE GROUND OF GENRE-STYLE SEEKING OF THE ITALIAN MUSICAL THEATER OF THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY

Abstract

Research objective is to identify the poetic and intonational features of the opera “Gianni Schicchi” by J. Puccini in the context of the genre and style specifics of Italian musical theater of the early twentieth century. and the general evolution of the composer’s work. The methodology. The methodological basis of the work is the cultural-historical approach in musicology, successive from B. Asafiev and his followers. At the same time, historical, cultural, and interdisciplinary approaches proved to be very significant for this work, allowing us to identify the patterns of creative and stylistic evolution of the musical theater of G. Puccini in line with the cultural and historical realities of Italy in the early twentieth century. The scientific novelty of the work is determined by its analytical perspective, taking into account not only the peculiarities of the manifestation of the aesthetic-style attitudes of the work of G. Puccini in the opera “Gianni Schicchi”, but also its genre specificity, formed on the basis of the synthesis of opera buffa and medieval farce. Conclusions. “Gianni Schicchi” by G. Puccini is an example of the composer’s late work, which has become an essential component of the composer’s opera triptych and the result of his musical and theatrical searches and creative evolution, directed from verіsm dramas to chamber opera of the early twentieth century. The poetry of the work was formed at the intersection, on the one hand, of centuries-old achievements of the Italian opera-buffa, comedy del arte, farce, and on the other, appealed to the creative rethinking and implementation of the national literary heritage – a fragment from Dante’s Divine Comedy. The acuity and vividness of the musical characteristics of the characters and the general plot of this work by G. Puccini as the most “Italian” of his operas, at the same time, reveals a connection with the genre-style searches of Italian and European culture of the early twentieth century, turned within the framework of the typological qualities of neoclassicism to creative revival alien national cultural heritage.