The Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Work of Art):
Contemporary Manifestations and Challenges
WAGNER (1833-1883) |
SCHAFER (1933-) |
THOMAS (1954-) |
|---|---|---|
| spectacle: opera as “music-drama” |
spectacle: “music/musical-theatre” |
spectacle: theatre as “dry opera” |
| Festival Theatre (Bayreuth, Germany) |
large-scale environmental (indoor and outdoor) |
Ópera Seca/Dry Opera (São Paolo + Rio, Brazil) |
| vision of the individual (genius) |
collaborative vision | vision of the individual (auteur/encenador) |
| Gesamtkunstwerk (Total work of art) |
Theatre of Confluence | Gesamtglücksfallwerk (Total work of chance) |
| unity of the arts (Modernist) |
montage of the arts (Modernist) |
disjunction of the arts (Postmodernist) |
| synthetic | contrapuntal | fragmented |