„Янините девет братя” и фолклорът (За словесната основа на оперното произведение)
Yana’s Nine Brothers and Folklore (About the Script of the Opera Work)

Summary/Abstract: The libretto of the opera “Yana’s nine brothers” results form the joint efforts of the composer Lyubomir Pipkov and those of Nikola Veselinov, the author of the short story with the same title. As а literature canvas of the opera work the short story and the libretto have much in common with folklore. Well defined is the method of the authors which consists of borrowing structural elements typical of folklore poetic system. Such are known motifs of folk songs, plots, fabulae, means of expression, characteristic names of the heroes, resorting to models from anaphoristic folklore prose. The main thematic courses, the emotional atmosphere, depicting the supernatural, the whole interpretation of the events and characters show the evident similarity – inner and outer – with folklore as knowledge, view of life and aesthetic experience. Well outlined is the authors’ bias to plots and personages from the folk ballad, as well as to the principles of balladic narration. Indisputable importance in this creative cooperation had the culture of the circles and the epoch (the 1920s and 1930s), the poetic experience of the young L. Pipkov, his literature interests. As а whole their route to assimilating and recreating the folklore material resembles the attitude romantics had to folk art. The short story is an uncomplicated stylization of folklore motifs, notions and images. Though the libretto is very close to its origin, the whole musical and dramatic effect of the opera is much more complicated, the dialogue with the folklore goes beyond the limits of everyday realism.

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