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The article describes the findings of the study of the most significant trends in the development of modern music theatre, resulting in the update of its genres. Influenced by the surge of theatrical creativity in culture, development of digital and interactive technologies and mass media, and other processes between the 20th and 21st centuries, major stylistic discoveries were made, as well as new forms of music stage performance occurred. The author is focused on areas of the modern music theatre, poorly studied by the national music history, such as: television and radio shows, documentary theatre, musical and choreographic performance, mixed media music theatre. Based on their analysis, the article defines basic directions for further development of theatrical and musical genres, i.e. to update traditional genre models from the inside by searching for special forms of genre and style fusion and non-musical playwright forms, combination with screen arts and with real life. The article addresses new forms of theatrical and musical performance, including live art performance, matters of time and space, reinterpretation of the role of the audience, the establishment of environment for various connotations, as well as music and generally aesthetic issues.

The conference members debated on a wide range of issues to analyse the synthesis of arts in the modern sociocultural space. The reports addressed the transformation of classical forms and genres impacted by synthesis, the emergence of new synthetic patterns that determine the evolution of music. The event summarized the global experience demonstrating the intensification of creative search and experimenting with any forms of artistic synthesis, and the role of technical means and IT technologies in this process. In the context of cross-sectoral debates, the interaction of the elite and mass, the psychology of perception, the relationship of music with the socio-cultural trends of modernity were reviewed. The result of the team discussion was the analysis and outlook for ways aimed to preserve and enhance the intellectual values of academic music.