The Musical “Sluzhbogontsi” by Parashkev Hadzhiev. Directorial Touch and Reference Points before the Performance Cover Image

Chamber-Vocal Music Making in the Learning Process. The Role of the Teacher-Pianist in Creating an Ensemble
The Musical “Sluzhbogontsi” by Parashkev Hadzhiev. Directorial Touch and Reference Points before the Performance

Author(s): Violeta Gorcheva
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Издателство НМА „Проф. Панчо Владигеров”
Keywords: Parashkev Hadjiev; Bulgarian music; musical; music production; stage-theater production

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the dramatic action in the musical “Sluzhbogontsi” (“Career Chasers”) by Parashkev Hadzhiev through the director’s perspective, in view of its future stage production. Genre and musical theatre rules are examined as a reference guide and base of analysis is the literary source, the comedy of the same name by Vazov. The two works are compared for similarities and differences and new elements are noted, added to the author’s concept through musical and dramatic material interpretation, musical genre’s artistic and aesthetic standards and the specific „national flavour“ of the piece. This specific creative hybrid of genres is stated by finding parallels with the new Viennese (salon) operetta, the musical of the Golden Age – the 1950s, and contemporary trends’ influence established in the 70s of the last century. Special attention is paid to the characters’ personalities. Their motivational paradigm is structured, performance tasks identified, and their unique and typical features specified, creating characters’ biographies and behavioural models. Analysis’ subject is the musical’s dramatic structure too, emphasized by the themes, plots, conflicts, preliminary circumstances and dramatic situations. Thus, in terms of genre stage transcription characteristics, “Sluzhbogontsi” mostly alludes to the burlesque, the farce and the grotesque.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 226-237
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian