Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2015 8) 429-436 ~ ~ ~ УДК 782 Implementation of Instrumental Theatre Principles in Yuri Kasparov’s Opera-Monodrama “Nevermore!” Yuliya R. Peretokina* Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Music and Theatre 22 Lenin Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia Received 12.12.2014, received in revised form 29.12.2014, accepted 23.01.2015 This article discusses the specifi c features of the instrumental theatre, which organically penetrates into the opera-monodrama genre, given the example of “Nevermore!” opera-monodrama by the contemporary Russian composer Yuri Kasparov. <...> Such synthesis is of a special research interest while it is a unique phenomenon in the musical culture and outlines new ways of modern musical theatre development. <...> Due to the mutual enrichment of genres within the work, the boundary between a soloist and instrumentalists is erased. <...> Therefore, instrumentalists face a completely new challenge: they become the characters of the stage action. <...> Research area: art history. “The art of the twentieth century is full of different kinds of innovations connected with contents, forms and language manner of their implementation to such an extent that one gets the impression of a stylistic dissonance in it. <...> Instrumental theatre as a genre, which appeared in musical art after World War II, has manifested itself in music of many composers. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: j.r.kiseleva@gmail.com # 429 # school of composers Tom Johnson, John Cage, George Crumb, Frederic Rzewski; German composers Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann; the composer from Slovenia Vinko Globokar; Dutch composer Martijn Padding; composers from the former Soviet republics: Peteris Vasks from Latvia, Valentin Selvestrov from the Ukraine, Dmitry Smirnov from Belarus, Russian composers Sergei Slonimsky, Edison Denisov, Sofi a Gubaidulina, Rodion Shchedrin, Faraj Karaev, Vladimir Martynov, Nikolai Kondorf, Victor Ekimovsky, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Ivan Sokolov, Sergei Zagny and others. <...> In this paper, we consider the implementation of some features of the genre of Yuliya R. Peretokina. <...> Implementation of Instrumental Theatre Principles in Yuri Kasparov’s Opera-Monodrama… instrumental theatre in the opera-monodrama by Moscow composer, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, professor of the Moscow State <...>