Беат Фуррер: Аудиотеатр «Фама» в контексте проблем современного оперного жанра

The article is devoted to a specific interpretation of space in the opera house of the Austrian composer Beat Furrer. On the example of the opera Fama , an analysis of spatial drama is carried out, as a result of which, the author comes to the conclusion that space and spatial gestures in B. Furrer’s music, play a thematic role. The idea of a «concise narrative» becomes the lead. With the help of various filters and complex spatial organization, overlapping, converging at one point and diverging sound fields, Schnitzler’s story — the literary basis of the opera — appears as a sound drama, where the theatrical action itself is more likely to be background in nature, and space becomes the main character.