Arti musices, Vol. 50 No. 1-2, 2019.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.21857/90836cwo2y
Traces of Mythologization in/of the Opera Nikola Šubić Zrinjski by Ivan Zajc
Rozina Palić-Jelavić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9661-3298
; Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Historical written sources and oral transmission of legends about Nikola Šubić Zrinski are concentrated in one of the literary sources (Theodor Körner’s drama Zrinyi) used by Ivan Zajc as the composer of the opera Nikola Šubić Zrinjski on Hugo Badalić’s libretto. In this opera by Zajc the importance of the historical personality and events connected with him already underwent a certain mythologization both during its creation and later. Further, the very opera itself was later exposed to another mythologization process as an ideologeme. It means that apart from considering the »life« of Zrinski as a historical personality, the »life« of the operatic character itself has been developed during its existence on the theatrical stage: the ideologeme itself underwent a certain mythologization. Thus a historical topic which became a myth about unity among defenders of the Christian community and of sacrifice for the homeland projected the same importance onto the image of the operatic character as described by the librettist Badalić. This mythologization of some of the ideologemes in Zajc’s opera (the Szigetvár fortress, Zrinski himself, the choir To Battle!), used as models in this research, contributed considerably to the issue of Croatian identity. They are notions which bear several meanings (or bear a ‘surplus’ of meaning) and as such assume characteristics similar to the mythic consciousness (mythologemes) creating the world of symbols.
Ključne riječi
Nikola Šubić Zrinjski / Nikola Šubić Zrinski; Ivan von Zajc; Hugo Badalić; Croatian national historical opera; the 19th century; national identity; ideologemes; mythologization
Hrčak ID:
234080
URI
Datum izdavanja:
6.12.2019.
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