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1980 – 1984
UK Philosophical Faculty in Bratislava (musicology), 1984-1985 departmental assistant at the Department of Musical Education at the Pedagogical Faculty in Nitra.
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1986 – 1988
staff scholar at the Method-Research Cabinet of Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava
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from 1994
staff member, since 2002 staff scholar at the SAV Cabinet of Theatre and Film
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1996 – 1997
head of the concert department of the art agency Slovkoncert
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1997 – 2011
staff expert at the National Theatrical Centre (afterwards the Theatrical Institute)
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2001
degree of PhD. at the SAV Cabinet of Theatre and Film and VŠMU, dissertation Exoticism in Opera
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2003
title of dozent at the VŠMU Music and Dance Faculty, second doctorate work: On the Question of the Reception of Janáček’s Operas in Slovakia; second doctorate lecture: The Aesthetic Analysis of Opera and its Possibilities; 2005 guest dozent, 2005-2006 regular dozent, from 2006 professor emeritus
Doc. PhDr. Miloslav Blahynka, PhD. was a Slovak musicologist, pedagogue, music publicist and organizer of cultural life. He studied musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Bratislava and in the field of research he has focused on the history and theory of the aesthetics of opera, musical theatre, Czech and Slovak opera.
"The most significant part of his professional life was dedicated to the Slovak Academy of Sciences. From 1994 worked at the Cabinet of Theatre and Film (now the Institute of Theatre and Film Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) as a researcher, later as a member and chairman of the institution's Scientific Council. Other professional positions held by Miloslav Blahynka include a short period at the Slovkoncert concert agency or the National Theatre Centre (now the Theatre Institute Bratislava)" (Opera Slovakia, 2021).
He has been a member of the following scholarly organisations: Slovak Musical Union, Slovak Musicological Association, International Johan Strauss Society, International Leoš Janáček Society, Slovak Teatrological Society, International Association of Theatre Critics (AICT), Czech Society for Musicology.
He has engaged in publicistic activity, working as editor of the journal Hudobný život, as editor and from 1991 principal secretary of the journal Literárny týždenník. He actively followed the events on the Slovak and foreign opera scenes and reviewed them. He also contributed to the periodicals Pravda, SME, Javisko, Opus musicum, Slovenské divadlo, ARCH, Mosty, Tempo, and published his professional works in several scientific proceedings of musicological conferences and colloquia.
His most important works include The Slovak Opera Dramaturgy 1989-1998 (1998), his dissertation Exoticism in Opera (2001), which later became a book of the same name, Wasserbauer's productions of Janáček's operas at the Slovak National Theatre and Janáček's operas in Slovakia (2006), the chapter The Development of Opera after 1949 in the book by Miloš Mistřík and his team (1999) Slovak Theatre in the 20th Century, Essays on Opera (2006) and Chapters in the Aesthetics of the Musical (2007).
He has worked as an external pedagogue at the Department of Musical Theory at the Musical and Dance Faculty of VŠMU (1986-1991, 1999-2003) and at the Department of Musicology at the UK Philosophical Faculty in Bratislava (1987-1989, 1997), where he taught the aesthetics of music, and the Bratislava Conservatory (1997-2006).