Yulia P. Medvedeva

National Traditions and Universal Meanings in Vladimir Kobekin’s Opera The Diary of a Madman Based on Lu Xun’s Short Story

The article focuses on the only example of a Russian opera based on a work of Chinese literature to this day, The Diary of a Madman (1978) by V. A. Kobekin. It’s based on the composer’s libretto on the short story of the same name by the classic Chinese prose writer Lu Xun. The relevance of the research in the era of a...