Sitarska Y. Religious-ethical problematics and style processes in Russian opera from the last third of the XIX to the beginning of the XX century (M.Musorgskiy, N.Rimsky-Korsakov)

The system of the style analysis of operas which maintenance includes problems of religious ethics is offered in the dissertation. The style complex caused by a given context is comprehended as the new dynamic component of national style realized in a number of Russian operas of the investigated period – "Style of spiritual transformation". Its specificity is revealed at levels of a scenic composition, dramaturgy and the genre-intonational concept of works. On a material of nine operas spheres of realization of the religious-ethical problematics (personal spirituality, the government, history) and key religious-ethical problems are revealed. As a result of realization of the complex analysis of "Khovanshchina" by M.Musorgskiy and "Legends on an invisible town Kitezh" by N.Rimsky-Korsakov in the problematic-stylistic aspect their ideological bonds with the Christian doctrine about divine good fortune, the religious-philosophical concept of Sofia, Knowledge Divine, author's interpretations of Christiansymbols, citations and allusions of divine service texts, lives of sacred people, psalms are revealed. Features of modifications of the found new dynamic component of national style were investigated by two authors.