TY - JOUR
TI - End of the world, end of the worlds in Verdi's operas
AU - Resche, Christine
TI - End of the world, end of the worlds in Verdi's operas
AB - Our work focuses on the symbolic representation of the end of the world(s) starting from « material imagination » and leading us to reflect upon the dramatic and literary dynamics (from Hugo and Shakespeare especially) upstream of Verdi’s operas. From the mythography of the four elements different figurations of time and end of worlds emerge. Indeed, time suddenly speeds up in Rigoletto in the midst of water imagery. In this work, Bakhtin’s « chronotope of crisis » comes into play, causing a reversal of the temporal direction and a precipitation of the passing of time embodied in the horse’ gallop-like concluding rhythm. This is the way Rigoletto's world finishes. On the other hand, a devastating and obscure time brings forth death in Macbeth which share an underlying Shakespearean substrate illustrating the end of universe and the beginning of the fall of Verdian hero.
VL - 2014
IS - Numéro 5 Fins du monde
PY - 2014
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 21
EP - 40
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.14.002.2443
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/fin-du-monde-fins-des-mondes-dans-les-operas-de-giuseppe-verdi
KW - law of time
KW - water
KW - reversal of time
KW - chronotope
KW - darkness and death