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„Славеят на Орхидея“от Александър Райчев и националният модел на съвременна ревю-оперета
“The Nightingale of Orchid” by Alexander Raichev and the National Pattern of Contemporary Revue-Operetta

Author(s): Rumyana Karakostova
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: From the position of the today’s critical reflection “The Nightingale of Orchid” by Alexander Raichev remains an episodic creative expression with the value of a generic experiment. Despite of the presence of familiar ideological clichés in the song texts lyrics and in the principles of the dramaturgical structure, the composer succeeds to impose the pattern of contemporary revue-operetta – with a radically new song-and-dance language and with an original author’s stylistics, which turns out to be exceptionally promising. Precisely this pattern paves the way of the musical in the State music theatre’s national repertoire from the mid-60s of the twentieth century.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 49-56
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian