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Ask for a book review of the musical Les Miserables (more than 3,000 words! )
Written on June 25, 2002
I came home from watching Les Miserables last night and easily wrote my first comment. After going to bed, I tossed and turned and thought a lot. There are some things I want to say again, which is the second review.
Let me start with a music friend of mine. This gentleman is my respected elder and a lover of classical music for many years. Needless to say, when there were no vcd and DVD, I collected a large number of LD discs. Apart from some live videos of concerts, I mainly collect operas, and basically all important classical opera works are collected. I used to linger at his place, and I also recorded many programs with a stereo video recorder and piled them up, but after so many years, they should all be moldy. Once I gave him the original CD of Les Miserables as a gift, and then I went to the door and asked what I thought. Unexpectedly, I simply said "I didn't listen much" and then added "Broadway musicals are not as good as operas".
To tell the truth, I didn't take this sentence to heart at that time. Now, after watching the original performance of Les Miserables, I feel like I'm stuck in my throat. I can't help it.
I am also a person who likes western traditional operas very much. I am not only familiar with most important works, but also have many exotic works in my personal collection. For example, I have a full-length LD DVD of Wagner's "percival", with three albums in nearly five hours, which I bought for 750 yuan when my salary was only over 200 yuan a month. But I am also fascinated by Les Miserables. Why?
Yes, compared with some big operas, you can say that the musical language of Les Miserables is not rich enough, and the singing skills of the actors are not very demanding, and the texture of the band is not very complicated. What else is there? What else can you list? The scene is not grand enough? Forget it. Finally, I held back for a long time and said, "Anyway, grand operas are elegant and musicals are popular."
I think among the vast number of music friends, there must be a few people who hold this idea, including some music professionals, I am afraid. But is this really the case? Think about the creation years of those classic operas. At that time, there were no movies, no TV and no karaoke. What is an opera? Traditional Chinese opera began as a palace pastime of princes and nobles, and later it was a mass entertainment that was "loved by the broad masses of the people." Think about the scene of Wildi's "The Clown" humming "Women are fickle" on the street the day after its premiere. I'm afraid that when every new work of Verdi Puccini is spread from Rome to Paris, it will feel like "another blockbuster is about to be released".
Another friend said, "I don't like the singing of musicals, but I still think the singing of operas is good." It can only be said that turnip dishes have their own tastes, not that opera singing is elegant, but musical singing is popular. It should be said that the development of music language is closely following the development of the times and the development of mass aesthetics. People in the Verdi era will not imagine how we sing now, just as people immersed in the exaggeration and verbosity of "Count If You Want to Dance" in "The Wedding of Figaro" in Mozart era will not imagine the singing of Puccini's "Cold Hands" or "No One Sleeps Tonight". Although Bicai's Carmen is a tragedy, it is actually classified as "comic opera" in terms of genre. If a guy who likes Mozart Rossini thinks he is elegant and Carmen is "popular", it looks interesting today.
Therefore, I think Les Miserables is not so much a musical as a branch of modern opera, which truly "inherits and develops" the "excellent tradition" of classical opera, but it cannot be classified with avant-garde works such as Tea created by Tan Dun.
Coupled with modern operas such as Les Miserables, many people who used to wander in the door of classical music entered this treasure house, which is the most remarkable place. I know that some friends first heard songs such as Don't cry for me, Argentina, Memories, Tonight, etc. Later, when they came into contact with musicals, they found that the voice of the orchestra was so expressive and the songs of Bel Canto could be sung so beautifully, so they gradually fell in love with other opera works. Last night, the Grand Theatre was packed. I looked down from the box on the second floor and saw a dark head. I think, how many people in this room know nothing about musicals, but tonight has opened up a new world for them! Sorry, that's all I found. Please search Baidu ... ~
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