POSTMODERNA (I) OPERA
POSTMODERNITY (AND) OPERA

Summary/Abstract: In this article I discusse about contemporary relation with the opera, its connection with film and present a descriptive analysis of the rock opera Tommy. The Post-Modern age is characterized by the deconstruction of big essentialist narratives, substantial characters, the ideal of reaching the absolute and totality. The momentum of mass culture sucked in and redirected the perception of the opera in the same way as they made art as sort of realization of trash culture in general. The original intention of the opera as a musical drama with a strong emphasis on the Baroque mythical overemphasis, castrate roles and an appeal to artificiality in order to bring it into a relation with the wordly (profane) is nowadays reduced to the possibility to “consume” it quickly, with earphones, as we watch operas on TV. It was a choice between sticking to the traditional application values in theaters defined as elitist and isolated places of entertainment and the one hand and on the other the attempts to appeal to audiences outside these places using modern methods of presentation. Hence ideas for operas (and music) in the open, making films from great operas such as La Boheme or Carmen or foundation of radio and TV companies specializing in such art (Mezzo, Arte etc.).

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