Emiliya Zhunich
Papers of BAS. Humanities and Social Sciences
Vol. 11, 2024, No. 2
The welfare of socialism in the opera art in Bulgaria
in the second half of the 20th century
Emiliya Zhunich
Abstract. The text examines the modifications in the opera repertoire resulting from political changes after 1944 and throughout the second half of the 20th century. These changes initiated shifts in attitudes toward opera and its creators, influencing the repertoire, the nationalization of certain troupes and the calling of other formations of opera houses “community playhouse”, without the government being aware what exactly such institutions needеd and the problems with which all those adjustments were mined.
Keywords: opera art, people’s power, socialism, ideology