www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

Make me your Homepage
left corner left corner
China Daily Website

A country at the opera

Updated: 2013-10-18 00:23
By Raymond Zhou ( China Daily)

A country at the opera

Photo provided to China Daily

Li Guangxi, who initiated the role of Alfredo Germont in New China, sang the opera from 1956 to 1963, and then after the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), from 1979 to 1984. Using the original French La dame aux Camelias as the Chinese title, the opera was so popular that during a 1962 run in Shanghai, it filled a 2,400-seat theater for 20 nights, with the ticket-buying line stretching for hundreds of meters along the street. The 1979 tour of Tianjin, saw the opera performed 39 times in a 2,300-seat theater.

La Traviata was also the first Western opera to be revived in post-"cultural revolution" China, later followed by Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and many of Verdi's middle-age work. But for the masses with little access to the occasional theatrical performance, the availability of the videodisk around 1990 was a watershed in raising the exposure to — and level of appreciation for — Verdi and other Western musicians. There are accounts of opera-curious youths bicycling across Beijing to attend screenings of the 1983 film version of La Traviata directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Domingo. Though using an informal venue with disregard to authorization, the run was said to be much longer than most blockbusters of today.

"In the old days, only China National Opera House was allowed to do Western operas," explains Liu. "But now anyone can produce one, and the first choice is usually a Verdi work. It is simply more popular with the public." Compared with Wagner, for example. Though there is no data, empirical evidence shows that Chinese music fans would prefer Verdi over Wagner, but those who love Wagner tend to be intensely loyal, something akin to "religious fervor" in the words of music critic Tang Ruofu. Some experts explain that the Chinese singing tradition of "one singing followed by three others" is reminiscent of the structure in a typical Verdi aria and cabaletta. That and the hummable vocal lines have made Verdi much beloved by a wider swath of China's music-loving society.

For those who want to check out the scores, some of Verdi's manuscripts are on display in the China National Museum, or they can go to NCPA for its extravagant productions. So far, it has done La Traviata, Un Ballo, Otello, Nabucco, Rigoletto and, in concert form, Aida. "Nobody beats NCPA in China in the scale of a production," says Li Cheng, an opera critic. "But it is a giant standing on the shoulder of previous generations." One of these pioneers is Qian Shijin, who presented the China premieres of several Verdi works in Shanghai.

Li cites spinto soprano He Hui as a major Chinese proponent for Verdi. After making rounds of the world's greatest opera houses, she returned to China in Un Ballo and Aida, wowing her home audience with superlative delivery of Verdian grandeur.

Related:

Kun Opera interprets classic

Oil painting museum opens in Beijing

Autumn HK auction to feature contemporary art

Self portrait of Da Vinci debuts in China

Photos capture Arctic beauty before it is too late

8.03K
 
 
...
...
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 午夜影院a | 一级在线免费视频 | 欧美在线乱妇一级毛片 | 九九全国免费视频 | 欧洲成人r片在线观看 | 久久精品系列 | 自拍视频在线观看视频精品 | 国产女主播在线 | 久久亚洲国产精品五月天 | 一级毛片免费观看不卡视频 | 成人综合国产乱在线 | 国产欧美日韩在线人成aaaa | 女人张开腿让男人桶视频免费大全 | 国产精品99久久免费观看 | 国产欧美一区二区三区久久 | 欧美亚洲日本韩国一级毛片 | 成人精品一区二区久久久 | 欧美videosex性欧美成人 | 欧美日韩视频二区三区 | 手机免费在线看毛片 | 国产精品欧美激情在线播放 | 伊人久久大香线焦综合四虎 | 手机看片福利永久 | 亚洲在线小视频 | 免费伦费一区二区三区四区 | 久久99国产亚洲精品观看 | xx欧美老妇 | 国产成人精品系列在线观看 | 亚洲精品国自产拍在线观看 | 怡红院最新免费全部视频 | 精品日韩在线 | 国产日产亚洲系列首页 | 九九久久精品视频 | 67194成人手机在线 | 国产成人在线综合 | 免费看特黄特黄欧美大片 | 欧美成人精品动漫在线专区 | 久久免费在线视频 | 欧美一级精品高清在线观看 | 一级 黄 色 片免费 一级aaaaaa毛片免费 | 日本a级精品一区二区三区 日本a级毛片免费视频播放 |