Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Visual Feast - Turandot

 Carries forward to the fine art of reverence, a month ago, and Zhang said we see the opera China's story is certainly also caused me great interest, but do not know the difference between Chinese and Western cultures do, I can not accept the feelings of the princess and the prince, some can not adapt in the plot, but the whole field is really a very nice down music, the most amazing is that my entire repertoire of choreography, really great, every detail can be done so carefully.
For the people the story of a Westerner to imagine a Chinese legend. Turandot story first appeared in the 17th century Persian Anonymous Oriental Tales After the German poet Friedrich Schiller play on the Gods to be adapted to translate and its masterpiece Turandot. The most famous version of the play adapted by Puccini (Giacomo Puccini) in 1924, opera composer of the same name. Puccini failed to complete during the lifetime of the creation of the play. In Puccini's death, Franco Alpha Connaught (Franco Alfano) will be the play based on the completion of Puccini's draft. Play on April 25, 1926 in Milan, La Scala opera house (Teatro alla Scala) premiered by Toscanini (Arturo Toscanini) as a conductor.
other playwrights and composers have adapted the play or compose music for, including the composer Weber (Carl Maria von Weber), Busoni (Ferruccio Busoni) and Chinese contemporary playwright Wei Minglun. Absorbed the southern folk opera
story is about the time of the Yuan Dynasty in China, a princess, Turandot, was abducted the night to report the hatred of their ancestors, ordered the man if she can guess three riddles that she would marry him; if am wrong, then executed. Three years have killed more than no luck. Tatars exiled Chinese prince Khalaf (Calaf) with his father and the maid Liuer Timur reunited in Beijing after the failure of the puzzle that was personally monitoring the execution of the Prince of Persia and chopped Turandot. Khalaf Turandot prince attracted by her beauty, despite his father, Liu Er and three ministers of the opposition to be married, all questions answered correctly, the original answer three riddles are But Turandot refuses to admit defeat, to Fu Huang Salai, want to marry Prince Khalaf, so the Prince himself out of a puzzle, as long as the princess that if his name before dawn, Khalaf not only do not marry the princess, but also willing to was executed. Caught the prince's father, the princess and her maid Liuer Timur, and torture. Liuer himself to show secrecy. Khalaf Turandot to very cruel accusation. At dawn, the princess not know the name of the prince, but the prince's kiss melted her heart cold as ice, but also the real name of the prince told the princess. Princess Prince did not publish the real name, but notice the world to marry the prince, the prince's name is
three clown minister, very cute, the audience liked them
inexplicable why the prince fell in love with the heartless princess it, but I love the Prince song
beautiful fairy sister ah

third riddle answer is quite shocking, and the scene is very grand and ah

these beautiful clothes are so pretty
big scenes ah
hard orchestra
Saobao of us, known as the box inside, Zhang said the European court in the VIP are in the box of a theater with the opera mask, I wonder, then see what, Zhang said, that a status symbol ~ ~

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