What is the most famous opera in the world?

There are many, and there is no such thing as first. There is no first in literature, and no second in military. It is difficult to distinguish the superior.

By Johann Straw Jr. The famous operetta "The Bat" composed by Si and performed by the Mussorgsky State Model Opera and Dance Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia will be grandly performed at the Great Hall of the People from April 22 to 23, and will participate in the performance of the third international drama season.

"Bat" is the first complete opera performed by a famous foreign opera house in Beijing.

"Bat" is Strauss's pinnacle work and has been performed for a long time in the world. The declining classic opera

"The Bat" is performed by the Mussorgsky State Model Opera and Dance Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is one of the three major opera houses in Russia, together with the Moscow State Theater and the Mariinsky Theater. The theater is equally famous as the most professional, outstanding and authentic performing group in Russia with a long history and tradition. It is famous for performing operas and is famous all over the world. For most ordinary audiences, appreciating opera is definitely a kind of enjoyment, but This sense of distance will be broken by the upcoming operetta "Bat". "Bat" is the most classic play in the history of opera. It has won more than 200 awards of various types. It has toured extremely well in France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Greece, Portugal, the United States, the United Kingdom, Austria, Australia and other countries. It is one of the most popular operas in the world. One of the few classic operas. The overture to "The Bat" has become an extremely popular popular piece since its release and is often played in concerts. "Bat" majestically entered the Grand Opera House with its extraordinary artistic achievements, and has been the repertoire of the first-class opera houses in many countries for more than 100 years. For example: before Christmas every year at the Vienna Opera House, a real "Viennese Opera" - "Bat" by Johann Strauss Jr. is performed. Each ticket costs more than 2,000 shillings, and the lowest ticket costs several hundred shillings.

This play is the final work of Johann Strauss the Younger. After composing "Bat", the great composer fell ill and died. Johann Strauss the Younger wrote many operettas in his life, among which this one is the most famous.

The Mussorgsky State Model Opera and Dance Theater in St. Petersburg, where this play is performed, is one of the oldest theaters in Russia.

Before the October Revolution, the theater was called the Royal Mikhailovsky Theater. From 1895 to 1917, French troupes and German troupes performed in the theater all year round. John Strauss conducted the theater more than once, and the famous Russian bass singer Chaliapin played the leading role in the theater many times.

In 1989, the theater was named Mussorgsky State Model Opera and Dance Theatre. The theater's creative principle is to maintain classical tradition, discover forgotten opera and dance masterpieces, and strive to create modern plays. The theater has staged almost all famous operas and dances from Russia and other countries. The theater has toured Italy, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Greece, Portugal, the United States, the United Kingdom, Austria, Australia, Israel and other countries many times.

The band conductors, vocal principals, and main opera actors on this tour in China are all people's actors, meritorious actors, national prize winners, winners or finalists of Russian and international competitions, and therefore are not It’s hard to see the strength of the theater.

Although the plot of "Bat" is not complicated, it is a typical "comedy" like other operettas. The audience often laughs when watching "Bat". The general plot is: In order to take revenge on Count Eisenstein, Falk, the court notary, conspired with Count Eisenstein's wife Rosalinda, and greatly teased Count Eisenstein at a masquerade ball, which finally led to a series of Comedy jokes. The most important feature of this operetta is humor.

Verdi "Rigoletto" (opera in four acts)

Rigoletto (opera in four acts) Verdi. The script was adapted by Boavi based on Victor Hugo's masterpiece "The King's Pleasure". First performed in Venice in 1851. Plot: The protagonist Rigoletto is ugly and hunchbacked, and works as a jester in the court of Duke Mentua. The Duke is young and beautiful, and enjoys playing with women, which arouses dissatisfaction among the courtiers concerned.

Rigoletto ridiculed the misfortune of the courtiers' wives and daughters being humiliated, offending many people, and eventually lost his daughter: his beloved daughter Gilda was pure and beautiful, but the Duke disguised himself as a poor student and secretly pursued her, deceiving her. love. In order to retaliate against Rigoletto, the courtiers kidnapped Gilda and presented her to the Duke. Rigoletto was so sad and angry about this that he suddenly became murderous. He lured the Duke to stay in the hotel overnight with his beauty and hired an assassin to kill him. Before dawn, when he took the bag containing the body from the assassin and thought that the work was done, he suddenly heard the sound of the Duke singing and hurriedly opened the bag, only to find a dying Gilda disguised as a man. It turns out that the girl who learned of the assassination plan was deeply in love with the hypocritical duke and was willing to die for the duke for love.

The composer created three different musical images: the Rigoletto, who has a weak personality and changes in inner emotions; the Duke, who is romantic and flamboyant; and Gilda, who is pure, affectionate and full of poetic fantasy. Ligoletto's aria in the third act breaks the strict structure of the aria, using a freer form and narrative musical language, and there are many crying and intermittent "la la la" in the tune. The characteristic theme vividly depicts the specific emotions that he had to force a smile to cover up the extreme pain and fear in his heart. Gilda's famous aria "Dear Name" in the second act is gorgeous and charming, filled with the lyrical atmosphere of romantic fantasy, beating the passionate and ecstatic heart of a girl in love for the first time. The Duke's ballad "Women Love to Change" in the fourth act has a lively rhythm and a fancy tone. It is a wonderful portrayal of this expert in love. In the same scene, the quartet of the Duke, Maddalena, Gilda, and Rigoletto begins with the Duke's usual false and passionate singing. Maddalena responds to him with a mocking tone, followed by Gilda's disappointed and painful lamentation. , and finally the sound of Rigoletto’s gnashing teeth determined to take revenge. The four themes are sometimes intertwined and sometimes 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 adapted from the Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720- 1806), a 5-act allegorical play of the same name, written by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, written from 1921 to 1924. Only the first half of the third act was completed before his death, and the second half was written by Alfa The promise continues. The story material seems to be taken from the Persian "Fairy Box" introduced to Europe at the end of the 17th century. This play premiered at La Scala on April 5, 1926. The conductor was Toscanini. On the opening night, when Liuer committed suicide in the third act, Toscanini put down his baton and said to the audience: : "It was here that Puccini put down his pen." The play premiered the next day. The three acts of this opera are: Act 1, in front of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The continuous Andante expresses Turandot's motivation. At dusk, various people in the square listened to the official read out a notice. The notice said that Princess Turandot would be married to the person who guessed the three riddles correctly. If the guess was not correct, he would be beheaded. The Prince of Persia failed to guess correctly and was executed when the moon came out. People were in a commotion and rushed to the palace. Among the crowd, Liu'er, a maid, was supporting the Tartar king Timur. When Liu'er begged others to help lift Timur who was knocked down, Timur's son Karafu met his father. The surrounding people were dispersed, and the cry of the executioner was heard. Timur said that Liu'er took good care of him. Liu'er said, "I have never been able to forget the prince's smile," expressing her inner love. The executioner grinds his axe, singing "Grease, Sharpen the Axe," and the suitor about to be executed shouts "Turandot, cold beauty." In an oriental atmosphere, it describes the execution of the death penalty. After the chorus ends, the executioner exits, and everyone looks up at the night sky in the square and sings "Why Doesn't the Moon Come Out?" After the moon came out, everyone sang "The Moon Comes Out", and children's voices came from a distance to sing "Storks Singing on the Top of the Eastern Mountains". The melody was taken from the Chinese folk song "Jasmine". The Persian prince, who was escorted to the execution ground under the moonlight, looked pale. The crowd sang "Poor young man, please forgive the princess", and Calaf cursed the cold princess. Under the moonlight, Turandot came on stage, everyone knelt, and she silently refused the crowd's request.

Karafu was overwhelmed by the beauty of the princess, and said to himself selflessly: "Beauty is like a fairy, just like a dream." After everyone left, only Pamul, Liu'er and Karafu were left. Karafu was talking about Turandot and wanted to run away. I went to the city wall to beat the gong, determined to participate in the riddles. Three ministers, Ping, Pong and Pang, appeared wearing masks and warned: "Whatever you want to do, turn around quickly, otherwise your life will be in danger." The three said: "The beautiful princess is just a princess. A woman with a big face, two hands and two feet." The maid asked everyone to be quiet because the princess was resting. The three ministers told Karafu: The three mysteries cannot be solved and it is best to go back quickly. Kalafu said: "Only I am her lover." Pamul said to him sadly: "Do you want to abandon your old father?" The crying Liu'er sang the aria "Please listen to me, Prince" ( Signore, ascolta), begged the prince not to take the risk. Calaf was moved and sang the aria "Non Piagere, Liu" (Non Piagere, Liu), comforting Liu'er while expressing his firm determination. Calaf ignored everyone's dissuasion and ran to the wall and shouted Turandot's name three times. Although Liu Er and others shouted "death", he still banged the gong three times to express his proposal. The orchestra plays Turandot's theme, the official says that everything is over, Parmur and The Marriage of Figaro (composed by Mozart) Opera in four acts, libretto by Da Ponte, music by Mozart, 1786 It premiered at the Vienna National Theater on May 1, with 30-year-old Mozart personally conducting. Performed with English lyrics on May 10, 1824, at the National Park Theater in New York. The French dramatist Beaumarchais created three plays in the "Figaro Trilogy" in the 1770s, namely "The Barber of Seville", "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Guilty Mother" 》. The first two parts were composed into music. Mozart in the 18th century chose the second part, and Rossini in the 19th century chose the first part. If you have not read the introduction to Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville", it is recommended to read these two stories in conjunction, because the two stories are related to each other. Because the barber Figaro made a significant contribution to Count Almaviva's love and marriage, he has now become the count's servant; Rosina, who was once pursued hard by the count and finally became his wife, has now been favored by her husband. Neglected; the count's interest at this time is in a maid named Susanna; Susanna is Figaro's fiancée-so, the center of this opera is that Figaro defended his marriage with wisdom , finally achieved happiness. lt;lt;The Magic Flutegt;gt; (composed by Mozart) A two-act or four-act singing drama, written by Schikaneder and composed by Mozart. It was first performed on September 30, 1791 at the Dia Verdon Theater outside Vienna. ; When this play premiered, it did not receive a particularly warm welcome. But every time it was performed again, the popularity increased. A week later, Mozart wrote in a letter to his wife Constance: "I just came back from the opera house, and it is still full tonight. Like the aria "The Man Who Knows Love" and The silver bell scene in the first act is as encore as ever..." This opera was the last opera written by Mozart and was not completed until shortly before his death. When he was about to finish the creation of this opera, someone commissioned him to compose a "Requiem" on his behalf. Mozart believed that this person was a messenger of God who came to call him back. He used all his energy to compose this piece of music all night long. In his opinion, "Requiem" seemed to be composed for himself, but in the end he collapsed due to exhaustion. "The Magic Flute" has both the solemnity of a serious opera and the brightness of a comic opera. Its music skillfully combines the mysterious and holy religious color with the bright and cheerful secular color, which is very beautiful. Moreover, Mozart loved the opera "The Magic Flute" very much. He personally conducted the first and second performances. A few hours before his death, he was still eager to hear the music of "The Magic Flute". He asked someone to turn the clock Put it on the bedside so you can keep track of time while imagining the ongoing performance of "The Magic Flute".

But their love was opposed and interfered with by Alfredo's father Armand. Violetta had no choice but to return to her former lover, Baron Dufer. Alfred thought Violetta had betrayed him and humiliated Violetta in public. When Violetta was seriously ill, Alfredo and his father confessed their actions and expressed their admiration for the unfortunate woman. But it was too late, Violetta died in the arms of her lover. lt;lt;Carmen gt;gt; (composer by Bizet) The charming Carmen successfully seduced Don José, who already had a lover, and after being arrested for beating, she was released from Don José's hands who released her Escape. When Don Josédang met Carmen after being imprisoned, the two fell in love and had a fight with his boss, Lieutenant Chunica, who also pursued Carmen. Don José was therefore unable to return to the barracks and was forced to join Carmen's smuggling group. The conscientious Don José had a quarrel with Carmen before a smuggling operation. At this time, Micaela came to look for Don José, hoping to save his lover who had gone astray. The matador, who is also interested in Carmen, almost has a duel with Don José, who is persuaded by Micaela to visit his critically ill mother. In the bullring, Carmen refused Don José's request to start a new life with her, unwilling to sacrifice her freedom. Don José killed Carmen in a fit of rage. lt; lt; Othello gt; It premiered on February 5, 1887 at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. "Othello" is set on the island of Cyprus at the end of the 15th century. The protagonist Otero is a dark-skinned Moor who serves as the commander-in-chief of the Venetian army. He killed his beautiful and loyal wife Desdemona because he listened to the slander from his subordinates. After understanding the truth of the matter, he was filled with regrets and finally committed suicide and followed his beloved wife to death. lt;lt;The Artist's Lifegt;gt; (composed by Puccini) An opera in four acts, "The Artist's Life" is also called "La Bohème". Giacosa and Ilica co-wrote the screenplay, and Puccini composed the music. The story of this play is based on the novel "Scenes of Life in Bohemia" by French writer Mourge (1822--1861). The plots in the book are all the personal experiences of the author and his partners. It tells the life and love story of a poor young man who lives in the Latin Quarter of Paris and dreams of becoming an artist, and a flower-making girl, full of laughter and tears. After Puccini took it, he also implanted the memories of his poor youth into it, thus turning it into a realistic and youthful poem-like opera. It was first performed on February 1, 1896 at the Teatro Riccione in Turin, Italy. Liu'er cried for it