Идеи «Нового Просвещения» и современное оперное искусство (опера Иммануил Кант Лешека Можджера)

Abstract

The following article is about the modern staging of Leszek Możdżer’s opera Immanuel Kant in comparison with two performances based on Thomas Bernhardt’s original drama under the same title (directed by Krystian Lupa and Marius Ivaškevičius). This comparison lets us see in the performance staging an attempt to deconstruct certain postulates of new Enlightenment: belief in reason based on subjective experience (more precise than inter‑subjective), unification of transcendental and empiric, ideas of “multiple worlds” caused by achievements of technocratic era. As a result, we come to the conclusion that Kant’s ideas and Kant’s image (as some sort of stereotype of perception) are downsized to the maximum in the opera. One of the action participants appears to be the text of Kant’s works in multiple deflections and interpretations.