Kasianenko M. Creative life of Yevhenia Semenivna Miroshnychenko: resource-studying aspect

The thesis is devoted to researching and systematization of various resources concerning life and creativity of Yevhenia Miroshnychenko as well as to evaluating the integrity of their sustenance and defining their role for comprehension of the artistic phenomenon of this singer. Application of resource-studying method for the research on such artists as Yevhenia Semenivna Miroshnychenko is one of the prerequisites for apprehension of her personality and role played by her in the crystallization of Ukrainian vocal school. Remembrances of close friends and relatives become a very valuable instrument providing us with a glimpse beyond the public façade of the personality and allowing to see the real person behind it. Mastership of acting in tragic and lyrical roles both in regular conditions of opera and in innovative genres such as film-opera or monoopera based on modern musical idiom proves wrong view on the singer as superficial. The integrity of resource base on condition of its profound learning allows to imagine Yevhenia Miroshnychenko as a person who was simultaneously an outstanding singer, skilful teacher and passionate fighter for Ukrainian culture. To highlight the latter is even more important, given that today the attempt is made to pervert the history by silencing this side of singer’s activity – the only one done almost in vain. In conditions like that, it is a usage of resource-studying method that becomes a criterion for verification of constituents of informational aura surrounding the singer and an obligatory requirement of trustworthy knowledge about multi-dimensional activity of Yevhenia Miroshnychenko and its results as well as about her influence, felt today distinctly by anyone included in the domain of vocal performance.