ANTINOMIES OF MYTHOLOGICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD ARE IN GENRE ARCHETYPES OF RUSSIAN EPIC OPERA
The attention of the author is emphasized on the phenomenon of genre of the Russian opera, as well as revealing the connection of the content conditioned by it with the antinomies of the mythological picture of the world. The concept of topos (the image of the scene of action), which is important in contrasting the sacred and profane, heavenly and earthly, spiritual and spiritless principles in the drama of the epic operas, is singled out. The analysis of genre genetics of intonations and the formative deployment of musical thought makes it possible to feel the integrity of the existing work. In the forefront of the problem posed epic operas by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky are considered.