Opera Sanati Ve Hermeneuti̇k- Il Postino Örneği̇

Abstract

The work named Il Postino, which was adapted from the novel Ardiente paciencia by the Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta, first to film and then to the opera, displays the need for reading or reexamining our world, our interpretation strategies, the ecological, environmental context and conditions of language through text and music (Randall, 2017). In relation to the linguistic complexity of the narrative, the text exposes us substantially to the cognitive awareness of our interpretive activity. The inquiries of the main character, become temporally and historically clarified through linguistic terms and musical themes. For the art of opera, hermeneutics serves as a science that helps explain the semantic concepts of the musical composition and the text, as well as conveying the perspective of the composer to the audience. In his manner of articulation in words and music, the composer and librettist of the opera, Daniel Catán, emphasizes Neruda's poems more than the novel or the film. The subject of this study, the opera Il Postino, is examined in accordance with the discourses on hermeneutics by philosophers such as Wilhelm Dilthey, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.