Opera Culture in Stage and Screen Discourse. Part 1. Franco Zeffirelli: The Author’s Work of the director-artist

The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the means of directorial and artistic skill in the implementation of an opera production in the space of the stage and screen. Research methodology. In order to study the phenomenon of opera art in the fields of stage and screen culture, an interdisciplinary approach was used in the scientific study of the topic, which contributed to the effective processing of factual material of opera productions in the theatre and cinema and television. The use of a systematic approach formed the basis for a scientific analysis of the features of the work of a director-artist on the production of an opera in the field of the stage and its screen adaptation. The use of comparative and comparative methods was useful in studying and comparing directorial and artistic means of authorial creativity in the fields of opera creativity in the context of theatre and screen cultures. The scientific novelty of the article lies in substantiating the latest possibilities of mutual influence and mutual enrichment of opera and screen arts in terms of rethinking and transforming the expressive means of the director’s and artist’s skill in the theatrical and screen space; in identifying the features of Franco Zeffirelli’s directorial and artistic activity in the presentation of opera in the stage and screen space, which for the first time became the subject of professional research. Conclusions. It is argued that with the help of screen directorial and artistic means, not only the popularisation of opera art among a wide audience is made possible, but also modern technologies for recording and demonstrating opera, the work of opera composers, performers are presented.