Uno Studio Comparativo della Produzione Artistica tra l'Opera di Pechino e il Melodrama Italiano

Chinese Peking Opera and Italian Melodrama are important treasures in the history of world music, not only witnessing the development of Chinese and European music respectively, but also gradually developing into the most important musical forms in China and Europe, occupying an important position in the “hall” of world music. The mode of artistic production can be defined as several dimensions of artistic production and formation under the “theory of artistic production”, which the author summarizes in the process of compilation into three major perspectives: experience, technology and dissemination. As an opera with a long history and cultural heritage, Chinese Peking Opera and Italian Melodrama have great differences in their artistic production modes in the process of formation and development. Therefore, a comparative analysis of the two operas from the perspective of artistic production modes is of great relevance. Combining with Benjamin’s theory of artistic production, this paper extracts the perspective of artistic production mode in the study and conducts a systematic comparative study on Chinese Peking Opera and Italian Melodrama on this basis. The article combines Marx’s art production theory and Benjamin’s art production theory to construct a theory of art production mode dimensions based on art production theory, including three major dimensions of art’s history and experience, art’s technology and expression, and art’s era and consumption. And then, this paper sorts out the culture development and reform in New China era Afterwards, an analysis of the relationship between culture and economy in several perspective, Diane Cran’s opinion on the production of culture, Griswold’s Cultural Diamond and Baumol’s cost disease in art production. Besides, this paper also discusses the important role of public participation in cultural industry. In addition, this paper also systematically compares Chinese Peking Opera and Italian Opera from three perspectives: history and experience comparison, technology and expression comparison, and era and dissemination comparison, in conjunction with the constructed art production model. Finally, based on the dimension of artistic production mode, the study combines the current development status of Chinese Peking Opera and the success of Italian Melodrama development, through a brief study about an artistic fusion of Italian Melodrama and Peking Opera, and further puts forward the thinking of economic development under the artistic production mode.