Algorithm for working on an artistic image: dialogue between the director, the conductor and the artist

The article is devoted to optimization of the production process in musical theatre. An effective algorithm for working on the artistic image is proposed, which includes analysis and development of the stage action as a whole as well as its individual “components”: the extrinsic and intrinsic ethos of the characters at the “part – role – image” system level. The article studies the specific features of the co-creative process of embodiment by the director, the conductor and the artist of the artistic image in the course of creation of stage performance of the Opera, these features being focused on achieving a common logic in the context of the General concept of the show. The stages of a productive rehearsal process are also presented, implying that the work of all the participants in the stage production should be coordinated and subordinated to a common idea. The first section of the article is devoted to the preparatory stage of working with the text and musical staff of the creation; examples based on the production practice of one of the metropolitan theatres are given, confirming the effectiveness of dramatic reading of the text and dramatic analysis of the score in the process of joint work of the director, conductor and artist on the “party – role – image” system. The stage of working on pauses is studied separately, since precisely coordinated pauses allow one to reveal additional possibilities of acting, change or strengthen the effective intonation of an opera artist in the process of embodying an artistic image on stage. And in the end, we investigate the stage of discussing by all the participants of the creative process of the mise en scene aspect of the performance and particular scenes of each character, which result in the birth of the plastic pattern of the role, plausibility and specificity of the image, the truth of the events on the stage and their emotional colouring.