The opera, one of the performing art fields, is the generalist art field of music, which is evaluated as the genre that included not only musical element but also all kinds of field such as literature, theatre, art, dances. The stage art that is relat...
The opera, one of the performing art fields, is the generalist art field of music, which is evaluated as the genre that included not only musical element but also all kinds of field such as literature, theatre, art, dances. The stage art that is relativelyfree and easy in the communication for meaning delivery included in it as the textual visual imagination of various structural elements that constitute the opera is the field that is in charge of central role to express some drama visually.
Actually, it is being changed in the trend to search for visual symbolism in the general part of social art. In spite of it, in the opera stage setting constituted the trend that shows factually the time and space element was in main current. Many of visual elements inthe drama that were overlooked not the meaning as the background of stage setting to the general part of such cultural art were appeared over the surface, and the stage setting that fills the stage has become the new interest.
The modern stage art is not the additional device. The empty space for the stage artists is as the same as a sort of canvass. They are the artists who do not describe the background of dramatist’s work factually, but creates the text of work as visual text in the same way. The visual image created by the stage artists has the same relation and function as the literacy of dramatist’s language and producer’s play.
With the autonomy interpretation of the stage artists’ text for such change of stage art function, the attention of audience has moved to the luxury and new stage setting design from the drama’s own entertainment.
Like this, with the visual image of performance being the central tool of new theatre, the stage setting figure and color has become the existence that contains more meaning than before, and because of this the stage setting located in the stage requires the constant reinterpretation for the new meaning, and various expressions and its plastic tools.
Mozart called [Don Giovanni] as 「drama geo course」 It means the opera with comedy and tragedy. Differently from all kinds of Don Giovanni and his servant Leporello’s funny actions, the protagonist’ fearless and shameless words and actions emit their own attraction. And, by expressing the nature of humanity through different characters and by revealing their existence with tragedy and comedy, it reveals in detail the real aspect of personality. [Don Giovanni] is the best opera of Mozart that extends the drama with lively character and good music. Therefore, the writer analyzes and inquires the function and role of stage setting design through the detailed theoretical analysis of the opera [Don Giovanni] and its examples of performance. Based on such research result, it presents how visualize efficiently the stage setting of the opera [Don Giovanni]with the elements of color contrast, diagonal space, functional conversion of stage, and analyzes the result through the real performance.
The stage art is the final result that materialized the work by the visual image through the understanding and analysis of stage designer’s work. Therefore, the future stage should not be limited to one figure, but explain efficiently the stage designer’s searching concept of work by visual image through the stage designer’s maximum use of knowledge and his new expression, and have the stage with not only the stage setting but also all the elements such as the actor’s acting, music, costume, illumination that make one performance in harmony.