The famous light opera "The Bat" composed by Johann Strauss, Jr.
The Bat is the first full-length opera to be performed by a famous foreign opera house in Beijing
The Bat is Strauss's masterpiece, a long-running classic opera in the world
The Bat is performed by the Mussorgsky State Model Opera and Dance Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, which is one of the three major opera houses in Russia, along with the Moscow State Opera and the Mariinsky Theatre, and is the most professional opera house in Russia. It is one of the three major opera houses in Russia, along with the Moscow State Theater and the Mariinsky Theater, and is Russia's most professional, most excellent, most authentic performance group with a long history and tradition, known for performing operas, and its reputation resonates all over the world. For most of the general audience, appreciating opera is definitely a kind of enjoyment of Yangchunbaixue, but this sense of distance is going to be broken by the upcoming performance of the light opera "The Bat". Bat" is the most classic opera in the history of opera, won more than 200 various awards, in France, Germany, Japan, Holland, Greece, Portugal, the United States, the United Kingdom, Austria, Australia and other countries touring exceptionally hot, is one of the few classic operas in the world. The overture to "The Bat" has been an extremely popular popular song since its inception, and is often performed in concerts. The Bat has made its way into the grand opera houses with its extraordinary artistry, and for more than a hundred years, it has been a regular feature in many of the country's first-rate opera houses. For example, the Vienna Opera House performs a real "Viennese Opera", Johann Strauss Jr.'s "The Bat", every year before Christmas. Tickets cost more than 2,000 shillings each, or a few hundred shillings for the least expensive.
The show is Johann Strauss Jr.'s definitive work. The play was Johann Strauss Jr.'s last work. After writing The Bat, the great composer contracted an illness and died. Johann Strauss the Younger wrote a number of light operas in his lifetime, of which this is the most famous.
The Mussorgsky State Model Opera and Dance Theater in St. Petersburg, where it was performed, is one of the oldest theaters in Russia.
Before the October Revolution, the theater was called the Royal Mikhailovsky Theater, and from 1895 to 1917, French and German troupes performed there. Johann Strauss played at the theater on more than one occasion. Johann Strauss conducted at the theater more than once, and the famous Russian bass-baritone Shalyapin played many leading roles at the theater.
In 1989, the theater was named Mussorgsky State Model Opera and Dance Theater. The creative principles of the theater are to maintain the classical tradition, to discover forgotten masterpieces of opera and dance, and to strive to create a modern repertoire. The theater has staged almost all famous operas and dance dramas from Russia and other countries. The theater has toured many times to Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Holland, Greece, Portugal, the United States, England, Austria, Australia, Israel and other countries.
The orchestra conductor, the chief of the vocal parts and the main actors of the opera on this tour are all people's actors, meritorious performers, winners of national prizes, winners or finalists of Russian and international competitions, which makes it easy to see the strength of the theater.
The plot of "Bat" is not complicated, but like other light operas, it is a typical "comedy", and the audience often laughs a lot at "Bat". Probably the plot is: court notary Falck for revenge Eisenstein count, and Eisenstein count's wife Rosalinda collusion, in a masquerade will Eisenstein count greatly teased a round, and finally led to a series of comedy jokes. The main feature of this light opera is its humor.
Verdi The Fiddler (opera in four acts)
The Fiddler (opera in four acts) by Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Boavi from Victor Hugo's The King's Search for Pleasure, first performed in Venice in 1851. Plot: The main character, Ligoletto, is ugly and hunchbacked, and works as a courtier at the court of the Duke of Mentua. The Duke is young and beautiful, and takes pleasure in playing with women, causing resentment among the courtiers concerned. Liguo Leto on the courtiers' wives and daughters humiliated by the misfortune of great ridicule, offended many people, and ultimately led to the loss of his daughter: his daughter Gilda, pure and beautiful, the duke disguised as a poor student secretly pursued, cheated her love. In order to take revenge on Ligoletto, the courtiers used a trick to snatch Gilda and offer her to the duke. Ligoletto was so enraged that he killed the Duke by luring him with his beauty to stay at an inn at night and hired an assassin to kill him. Before dawn, when he received from the hands of the assassin with the body of the pocket, thought the great success has been accomplished, suddenly heard the sound of the Duke singing, hastily opened the pocket, which is a woman disguised as a man, has been dying of Gilda. It turned out that the young girl was informed of the assassination plan of the false love of the Duke, willing to love and for the Duke to die.
The composer has created three different musical images of the tender-hearted, emotionally-changing Duc, the flamboyant, mercurial Duke, and the innocent, affectionate, poetic and fantastical Gilda. Act III Ligoletto's aria, breaking the strict structure of the aria, with a more free form and narrative musical language, as well as many times in the tune with a crying, intermittent "la la la la" characteristic theme, vividly portrayed his then had to force a smile to cover up the internal extreme trauma and fear of a specific The emotion of the second act is a vivid portrayal of Gilda's famous song. Act II Gilda's famous aria "Dear Name", gorgeous and charming, overflowing with romanticism and fantasy of the lyrical breath, beating with the first love of a young girl's passionate and ecstatic heart. Act IV of the Duke's lyrical song "women love to change their minds", the rhythm is easy and lively, the tone of the playful, is a wonderful portrait of the love scene. The quartet of the Duke and Madalina, Gilda and Ligoletto in the same act begins with the Duke's usual false and passionate tone of song, Madalina copes with him in a mocking tone, followed by Gilda's lament of disappointment and pain, and ends with the gnashing of teeth of Ligoletto's determination to avenge his hatred, with the four themes, which are suddenly staggered and overlapping, and the dramatic effect is extremely strong. It is one of the two most outstanding quartets in Italian opera
Puccini's Turandot
This 3-act opera is based on a 5-act fable of the same name by the Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), with a libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Simoni, written by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, in 1921-1924. Before his death, he had completed only the first half of the third act, which was continued by Alfano. The source material seems to have been taken from the Persian "Box of Nymphs", which was introduced to Europe at the end of the 17th century. The play premiered at La Scala Opera House on April 5, 1926, with Toscanini as conductor, and on opening night, when the play reaches the point where Willow kills herself in Act III, Toscanini puts down his baton and says to the audience, "It was here that Puccini put down his pen." The full opera premiere was the following day. The 3 acts of this opera are: act 1, in front of the Forbidden City in Beijing. A sustained line of panels indicating Turandot's motives. At dusk, assorted people in the square listen to an official reading a bulletin which states that Princess Turandot will be married to the person who guesses 3 riddles, and will be beheaded if he or she fails to do so. The Prince of Persia was executed when the moon came out because he failed to guess correctly. People are in an uproar, heading for the palace. In the crowd, Liu, a maid, supports Timur, the Tatar Sun King, and when Liu begs for help to lift Timur, who has been pushed down, Timur's son, Karafu, meets his father. As the people are dispersed and the executioner screams that the executioner is going to be carried out, Timur claims that Liu'er has taken good care of him, and Liu'er expresses her heartfelt love by saying, "I've never been able to forget the prince's smile". The executioner sharpens his axe and sings "Oil the axe, sharpen the axe", and the suitor who is about to be executed shouts "Turandot, the cold beauty". The execution is described in an oriental atmosphere, and after the chorus ends, the executioner exits, and the crowd looks up at the night sky in the square and sings "Why doesn't the moon come out yet". After the moon comes out, the crowd sings "The moon is out", and in the distance comes the children's chorus "On the top of the eastern mountain there are storks singing", the melody of which is taken from the Chinese folk song "Jasmine Flower". In the moonlight, the Prince of Persia, who is being sent to the execution ground, looks pale, and the public chorus "Poor young man, please forgive the Princess", while Karafu curses the cold-hearted Princess. In the moonlight, Turandot comes on stage, the crowd kneels, and she silently refuses the pleas of the crowd. Karafu is overwhelmed by the princess's beauty and forgets to say to himself, "Beautiful as heaven, like a dream." After all the people have left the stage, only Pamur, Liu'er and Karafu are left, Karafu reads Turandot and wants to run to the city wall to ring the gong, determined to participate in the riddle. 3 ministers Ping, Pong and Pang come out with masks, advising, "What do you want to do, turn around or your life will be hard to protect." The 3 say, "A beautiful princess is just a woman with one face, two hands and two feet." The maid asked everyone to be quiet because the princess was resting, and the 3 ministers told Karafu that the 3 riddles could not be solved and that it would be better to go back quickly. Karafu states, "Only I am her lover." Pamur sadly says to him, "Do you want to abandon your aged father?" The weeping Willow then sings the aria Signore, ascolta (Hear Me, Prince), begging the prince not to take the risk. Karafu, touched, sings the aria "Non Piangere, Liu" (Don't Cry, Liu), comforting Liu while expressing his firm resolve. Karafu runs under the wall and shouts Turandot's name three times despite everyone's discouragement, and strikes the gong three times to signify his proposal despite Liu's shouts of "death". The orchestra plays Turandot's theme, the high official says it's all over, and Pamphyle and <<The Marriage of Figaro>> (composed by Mozart) Opera in four acts, libretto by Da Ponte, music by Mozart, first performed at the Vienna State Theatre on May 1, 1786, with the 30 year old Mozart conducting; performed with an English libretto at the New York State Park Theatre on May 10, 1824; performed in English. Performances. The French dramatist Beaumarchais wrote three plays in the "Figaro Trilogy" in the 1870s: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother. The first two were set to music, Mozart in the 18th century chose the second, and Rossini in the 19th century chose the first. If you haven't read the introduction to Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville, it's recommended to read the two stories in conjunction with each other as they are interconnected. Because Figaro, the barber, made a major contribution to the Count of Almaviva's love affair and marriage, he is now the Count's servant; Rosina, who was once courted by the Count and finally became his wife, has now been coldly rejected by her husband; the Count's interest at this time is in a maid named Suzanne; Suzanne, Figaro's fiancée - so the centerpiece of this opera is that Figaro uses ingenuity to defend his marriage and ultimately achieve happiness. <<The Magic Flute>> (composed by Mozart) A singspiel in two or four acts, with libretto by Schikaneder and music by Mozart, first performed on September 30, 1791, at the Theater der Wieden in the suburbs of Vienna; the premiere of this opera was not particularly well received. However, each time it was performed again, the popularity increased, and a week later Mozart wrote to his wife Constance: "I have just returned from the Opera, and tonight it is as full as ever. Like the aria "Men Who Know Love" and the first act of the silver bells of the scene, with the same as always encore ......." This was Mozart's last opera, and it was not completed until shortly before his death. When he was about to finish this opera, someone commissioned him to compose a Requiem on his behalf, and Mozart thought that this person was a messenger of God who had come to call him back, and he used all of his energy to work through the night to compose this Requiem, which seemed to him to be for himself, and finally collapsed due to lack of physical strength. The Magic Flute" has both the solemnity of the opera and the brightness of the opera, its music will be mysterious, holy religious colors and bright, cheerful secular colors cleverly combined together, very beautiful. And Mozart himself ten minutes love "the magic flute" this opera, he personally conducted the first and second performance, a few hours before his death, he still longed to hear the music of "the magic flute", he asked someone to put the clock on the bedside, so as to calculate the time, in the imagination of the ongoing "magic flute" performance. Prince Tamino of Egypt was chased by a giant snake and saved by the Queen of the Night's courtesan. The Queen of the Night took out a portrait of her daughter Pamina and showed it to the Prince, who fell in love at first sight and the flame of love was lit in his heart. The Queen of the Night told the Prince that her daughter had been snatched by the bad man Sarastro, and hoped that the Prince would go to her rescue, and promised to marry her daughter to the Prince as long as he rescued Pamina. The prince agrees, the Queen of the Night presents the prince with a magic flute that will free him from his predicament, and the prince then sets off on his journey. In fact, Sarastro was the Lord of Wisdom, the leader of the "Kingdom of Light", and the Queen of the Night's husband, the Sun Emperor, had given him the mirror of the Sun, which was of immense power, before his death, and his daughter, Pamina, to teach her, so the Queen of the Night was very upset and attempted to destroy the Temple of Light in order to get her daughter back. Prince Tamino endured all kinds of tests, recognized the Night Queen's plot, and finally married Pamina. <<The Barber of Seville>> (composed by Rossini) A comic opera in two acts, based on the satirical comedy of the same name by the French writer Pauma Chase, and with a libretto by Stepney. Rossini to a short 13 days in one fell swoop score, but its premiere is not satisfactory, is very famous in the history of Western European opera premiere one of the failure, the failure of the reasons are manifold. Before Rossini, the veteran Italian composer Paisiello had already composed Beaumarchais's comedy The Barber of Seville into an opera, and in 1816, the manager of the theater company where Rossini was employed was asked to create a new Barber of Seville based on the selection of the papal police. Paisiello enjoyed a high reputation among his audience and Rossini anticipated trouble. He wrote to Paisiello beforehand, asking for his permission. Paisiello had already taken note of Rossini's young rival, and wrote back with both politeness and sarcasm, saying that it would be a great honor for him to approve the script chosen by the Roman authorities. Nonetheless, a sizeable audience still considered Rossini's reworking of an opera that Paisiello had already composed audacious, even furious, and on February 5, 1816 it was given its first public performance at the Teatro Argentino in Rome. On the day of the premiere, there were so many whistles and cheers that the audience could barely hear what the actors were singing. The situation improved the next day, and it was only a week later that the play was performed with great success. And with Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro "*** called the double best of comedy. Soon became one of the most important performances of opera houses around the world, also makes this opera become a monumental masterpiece in the history of opera forever. In 17th century Seville, Spain, the young Count Amaviva falls in love with the rich and beautiful Rosina. Rosina's guardian, the greedy doctor Bartolo, is also after Rosina. With the help of Figaro, a witty and honest barber, the Count breaks through Bartolo's obstacles and precautions, and finally marries Rosina. <<The Fiddler>> (Composed by Verdi) An opera in three acts, this opera was originally titled (aka "Rigoletto") and eventually renamed "The Fiddler". It is based on the play "The Easy King" by the famous French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885). Italian opera composer Verdi scored the music, which was first performed on March 11, 1851 at the Phoenix Theater in Venice and on February 19, 1855 in New York. The performances were a great success and were soon staged in various theaters in Europe, where they have been handed down to this day. This is the story of the sixteenth-century Italian city of Manduva, where the Duke is a dashing young nobleman. The Duke is a dashing young aristocrat who keeps an old hunchback as his retainer. In order to entertain the Duke, in addition to his laughter and flattery, he often had to find beautiful women to satisfy the Duke's lustful nature. Even when this happened to the wives and daughters of the Duke, the Duke mocked the angry husbands and grieving fathers. At last, all the retribution came to the Duke. His daughter, whom he cherishes and fears to find out, becomes a victim of the wrath of God. The opera begins with a magnificent court pageant and builds step by step to a tragic climax. <<The Lady of the Camellias>>(Composed by Verdi) A three-act opera, Piave is based on the famous novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, which was composed by Verdi in 1852 in just one month. The story takes place in the 19th century in the city of Paris, the famous prostitute Violetta and Alfredo fell in love, and hope to escape from the past life. However, their love is opposed and interfered by Alfredo's father, Armand. Violetta has no choice but to return to her former lover, Baron Dufour. Alfredo thinks that Violetta has betrayed him and humiliates Violetta in public. When Violetta is seriously ill, Alfredo and his father make a confession of their behavior, pouring out their admiration for the unfortunate woman. But it was too late, and Violetta died in the arms of her lover. <<Carmen>> (composed by Bizet) The flamboyant Carmen succeeds in seducing Don Hossei, who already has a lover, and escapes from Don Hossei, who unties her after the beating is arrested. Don Hosse when he meets up with Carmen after their imprisonment, the two fall in love and get into a firefight with their superior, Lt. Chunica, who is also pursuing Carmen. Don Hossei is thus unable to return to the barracks and is forced to join Carmen's smuggling ring. With his conscience still intact, Don Hossei gets into a fight with Carmen before one of the smuggling operations. At this point, Micaela comes looking for Don Hossei, hoping to save her misguided lover. The bullfighter, who has also taken an interest in Carmen, comes close to a duel with Don Hossei, who is persuaded by Micaela to visit his mother, who is terminally ill. In the bullfighting ring, Carmen, unwilling to lose her freedom, refuses Don Hosse's request to start a new life with her. A frantic Don Hossei kills Carmen in a fit of rage. <<Othello>> (composed by Verdi) A classical love opera in four acts, based by Boito on Shakespeare's play Othello, with music by Verdi. It premiered on February 5, 1887 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Othello is set on the island of Cyprus in the late 15th century. The protagonist, Othello, is a dark-skinned Moor who serves as commander-in-chief of the Venetian army. He kills his beautiful and faithful wife, Desdemona, by listening to the slanderous words of his men. When he realized the truth of the matter, he was so remorseful that he finally cut himself and followed his beloved wife to the Yellow Springs. <<The career of the artist>> (composed by Puccini) four-act opera, "the career of the artist," also known as the "Bohemian" Giacosa and Illica, Puccini music, the story of this opera is taken from the French writer Moureju (1822 - 1861) of the novel, "the Bohemian life scene," the book of the plot, all the authors and his partners in the first-hand experience. The plot of the book is full of the personal experiences of the author and his companions. It is the story of a poor young man living in the Latin Quarter of Paris, who dreams of becoming an artist, and a flower-maker, a story of life and love with laughter and tears. Puccini used the story and implanted it with his own memories of his poor youth, and it became an opera like a youthful psalm with a sense of authenticity. It was first performed on February 1, 1896 at the Teatro Riccio in Turin, Italy. The Willow Weeps for It