“Pani Yadviga” by V. Soltan: librettological aspect of the opera’s avan-text researching

Abstract

The article is devoted to the libretological research of the opera’s avan-text of V. Soltan’s musical and theatrical work “Pani Yadviga”. The purpose of the article is to analyze the artistic level of the opera’s avan-text, represented by literature source and libretto. The tasks of the article: to make a literary analysis of Russian and Belarusian versions of the K. Tarasov’s documental story, to reveal genre and dramaturgy transformations in the libretto by S. Klimkovich. The literary analysis of the text of K. Tarasov’s story was conducted. It allowed to determine the subject, problems and the ideological world of the work. The genre of the literary source is designated as a documentary novel with elements of a detective story. The dramatic image of the characters was traced. Genre, dramaturgy, plot and image transformations were discovered in the libretto. They arose with the aim of adapting it to the demands of the musical and theatrical genre. The text of the libretto has high artistic qualities. Thanks to a well-built dramaturgy, the libretto is a qualitative basis for the composer’s interpretation.