Maroquinhas Fru-Fru: Orthodoxy and avant-garde in Brazilian opera of the twentieth century
Brazilian children's opera, orthodoxy and avant-garde, operatic conducting, 20th Century
This study takes place a data collection from the research developed under the master degree in musical conducting at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, a proposal that includes an approach of the camera opera Maroquinhas Fru-Fru, from the composer Ernest Mahle, under the interpretive perspective, considering the compositional characteristics employed by the composer, as well as the specificities that music prints in the tasks of the conductor. The methodological theoretical support It comes from NEVES (1981), KATER (2001), HARTKOPF (2010), and VOLPE's compilation (2012) with the contextualization purpose of Brazilian opera, authors such as SCHERCHEN (1933), RUDOLF (1993), BOWEN (2003) and others in regard to conducting techniques, in addition to addressing some of the aesthetic issues related to gender. The bibliographical research includes a very brief biographical account of the authors of the work (composer and librettist), also includes the current situation of opera in the opera houses of the country in the triennium 2014-2016. The results point to the inedited assembly of this work in northeastern Brazil, in order to give vent to the musical practices of our time, which is revealed as an artistic need to be ingrained in the formation of new musicians and new audiences, and show some of the constancies and inconstancy of an operatic production in the current situation