XVIIIth century - the integration of word and music

In this article there will be considered the problem of adequacy of the syncretic theatre of the eighteenth century for the purpose and tasks allocated to art by a new state, at certain stages of its development, and it monitors the variable component of the abstracted artistic word picture of scenic and musical performance in the area of public and cultural life of the eighteenth century. The choice of the discussed public and cultural phenomena shows, on the one hand, their historical relationship, on the other, peculiarities of the place they occupy in the overall development of Russia in the eighteenth century.