Agenor and Strabo, Papageno and Sarastro: The Lviv Meanders of Wojciech Bogusławskis Operatic Biography
Jakub Chachulski
jakub.chachulski@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-1490
Abstract
This article refers to Zbigniew Raszewski’s findings regarding Wojciech Bogusławski’s acting roles in Lviv productions of the opera Amazonki (Amazons), the first joint work of Boguławski as librettist and the composer Józef Elsner. Based on incomplete information from Bogusławski’s Dzieła dramatyczne (Dramas), Raszewski concluded that the librettist played the Greek king Agenor. The analysis of the musical and literary elements of the opera generally confirms this, but it also suggests significant fluctuations in the author’s casting ideas. The aim of the article is to identify Bogusławski’s personal traces in the roles of both Agenor and Strabo. Hypotheses are also put forward regarding the moment in time and the reasons for changing the casting concept. The article expands the research on Bogusławski’s creative biography as an author, actor, and singer, using textual criticism (musical and literary sources), analyzing the cast in light of relevant operatic conventions, and employing analytical and interpretative tools of musicology and literary criticism, as well as comparative studies, to link fragments of the opera with Mozart’s The Magic Flute. An important methodological premise is the hitherto neglected possibility of using musicological tools in research on Bogusławski’s work and creative biography as a man of opera.
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Wojciech Bogusławski, Józef Elsner, opera, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, opera buffa, SingspielReferences
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Jakub Chachulskijakub.chachulski@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-1490
Jakub Chachulski - PhD, Assistant Professor at the Department of Musicology of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the editorial team of the series Monumenta Musicae in Polonia, graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Author of publications on aesthetics and philosophy of music; in recent years he has focused mainly on the stage works of Józef Elsner. Author of, among others, a thematic catalog of Elsner's secular works and a Polish translation of Charles Burney's travel diaries; since 2021 he has been working on a project financed by the National Science Center:"Józef Elsner's comic operas and the circulation of opera genres in Central Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries."
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