瓦解陈规:阿契·弗莱耶歌剧的舞台美术

The Disruption of Order: Achim Freyer’s Scenography for Opera

本文提供了一份对德国舞台设计师阿契·弗莱耶(AchimFreyer)歌剧作品的细致分析。他是一位极其重要的歌剧设计师兼导演,也是一位重要的剧场视觉艺术家,但在英文学术界,弗莱耶的作品却只得到了很少关注。他的作品远离了以往的主导模式,成为众多歌剧舞台美术设计新典范的组成部分。此变化是复杂的,它的社会学和政治学意义与歌剧的全球化紧密相关;其美学模式包含了对风格、抽象和剧场性的重新构想。尽管可以在这个框架下思考弗莱耶的作品,为了理解他的创作方法的激进性和创造性,我们还是必须就这些作品本身来对它们进行分析。

This article presents a close analysis of the operatic productions of the German scenographer Achim Freyer. Although a crucially important designer–director in opera and a key visual artist in theatre, Freyer’s oeuvre has received comparatively little treatment in Anglophone scholarship. I argue that his work forms part of a broad new paradigm in operatic scenography, which departs from previously dominant modes. This change is a complex one, bound up sociologically and politically with the globalization of opera;its aesthetics include new and reimagined modes of stylization, abstraction and theatricality. While Freyer’s work fits within this model, it must also be analyzed on its own terms, to appreciate the radicalism and creativity of his approach.