PLASTIC RHETORIC AND THE PRINCIPLE OF PARODYING IN PETER SELLARS’S PRODUCTION OF “COSÌ FAN TUTTE” BY MOZART / DA PONTE

In the article, the use of the method of parodying in the TV version of Peter Sellars’s production of Mozart’s opera “Così fan tutte” is analyzed. The main objects of consideration are the rhetorized conditional actor’s plasticity used by the director, with the help of which the social-critical aspects of the plot are emphasized, and also the connection between the dramaturgic logic of the performance with the libretto and the correlation of the narrative and metaphorical planes. Parodying acts in Sellars’s production as a sign of the social conventionality of the characters’ behavior, and as a means of the embodiment of the media aesthetics.