Musicology Annotation << Back The opera “Da gelo a gelo” in the context of the poetics of the musical theater Salvatore Sciarrino Chupova Anna G. In the European musical theater of the turn of the XX–XXI centuries, the operas of Salvatore Sciarrino occupy a special place. Finding an original conceptual and dramatic solution each time, the composer offers an alternative to the traditional genre format. The subject of the paper is the Opera “From Frost to New Frost” (“Da gelo a gelo”), based on the diary of the Japanese poet of the Heian era Izumi Shikibu. The focus is on the composer's interpretation of the main idea of the composition as an ecological and social catastrophe, the ratio of the libretto and the source, the characteristic techniques of working with text, compositional and dramatic features of the opera. These aspects are considered through the prism of Sciarrino’s general philosophical and aesthetic positions and are associated with such concepts and phenomena as “ecological music”, “poor” theater, imaginary reality, “invisible action”,anamorphosis. Attention is also paid to the problem of the composer's relationship with tradition and the forms of its implementation in Opera. Keywords: musical theater of the turn of the XX–XXI centuries, contemporary Italian opera, Salvatore Sciarrino, “azioneinvisibile”, “Da gelo a gelo”, anamorphosis, musicanaturale, “ecology of listening”, opera dramaturgy, libretto, “stillicidio di parole”, Izumi Shikibu, waka poetry. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.05.2020.1127 Pp. 29-40.