Boris Godunov at the Interstices of Opera and Film
2010; Oxford University Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/oq/kbq001
ISSN1476-2870
Autores Tópico(s)Visual Culture and Art Theory
ResumoOn May 3, 2008, the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago hosted a one-day symposium entitled “Performance and Mediation: At the Interstices of Opera and Film.” At the center of the discussion stood Andrei Tarkovsky's production of Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov at London's Royal Opera House in 1983 and the broad convergence between opera and moving pictures. A full hall heard eight presentations divided into four sections, devoted to the history of Boris Godunov in the dramatic arts, documentation of Tarkovsky's 1983 production, consideration of music and opera in Tarkovsky's cinematic oeuvre, and the broader problems of performance and photographic media. Presenters included Caryl Emerson, Yuri Tsivian, Vladimir Marchenkov, Berthold Hoeckner, David Levin, and Carolyn Abbate. The emotional highlight of the day was undoubtedly the joint presentation—one is tempted to say performance—by Irina Brown and Robert Bryan, two of Tarkovsky's collaborators on Boris Godunov and the creative forces behind the revival of Tarkovsky's staging in 2003. Irina Brown also produced a 1993 re-creation of Tarkovsky's production at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg (available on a commercially distributed DVD) and has published a recent essay (“Tarkovsky in London: The Production of Boris Godunov,” in Tarkovsky, ed. Nathan Dunne [London: Black Dog, 2008]). It is hoped that the symposium, which was filmed by Judy Hoffman of the University of Chicago, will eventually enable a fuller documentation of Tarkovsky's production.
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