{"id":1255,"date":"2010-02-04T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/guan_hou_gan_20100204\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T08:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:40:41","slug":"guan_hou_gan_20100204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2010\/02\/04\/guan_hou_gan_20100204\/","title":{"rendered":"[\u89c2\u540e\u611f]\u82ad\u857e\u821e\u5267\u300a\u8336\u82b1\u5973\u300b\u5b9e\u5728\u592a\u5b8c\u7f8e\u4e86\uff01"},"content":{"rendered":"

   
\nLast night, I saw the Ham\u00adburg Bal\u00adlet\u2019s pre\u00admiere of \u201cLa Travi\u00ada\u00adta\u201d at the Nation\u00adal Cen\u00adtre for the Per\u00adform\u00ading Arts. The expe\u00adri\u00adence was beyond my expec\u00adta\u00adtions, tru\u00adly breath\u00adtak\u00ading. Dur\u00ading the cur\u00adtain call, I clapped my hands with every\u00adone else, unable to con\u00adtain my excite\u00adment and grat\u00adi\u00adtude. My daugh\u00adter, tired of clap\u00adping, asked me, \u201cDad, don\u2019t your hands hurt from clap\u00adping so much?\u201d I replied, \u201cIt was tru\u00adly won\u00adder\u00adful, absolute\u00adly per\u00adfect! I have to thank them very much, and thank you for rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00ading it.\u201d (Haha, because it was real\u00adly thanks to her that she saw the ad on the sub\u00adway and pestered us to buy tick\u00adets.)
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\nhttp:\/\/landaishu.zhongwenlink.com\/home\/upload20083\/201023162719622.gif<\/a>
\nStill from the bal\u00adlet \u201cLa Travi\u00ada\u00adta\u201d
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\nAlexan\u00addre Dumas\u2019s \u201cLa Dame aux Cam\u00e9lias\u201d was once my favorite romance nov\u00adel. Oth\u00ader favorites include \u201cThe Sor\u00adrows of Young Werther,\u201d \u201cIrmensee,\u201d \u201cThe Red and the Black,\u201d and \u201cThe Grave of the Wild Chrysan\u00adthe\u00admums,\u201d all of which are deeply mov\u00ading and heart\u00adbreak\u00ading. How\u00adev\u00ader, I\u2019m sor\u00adry to say I\u2019ve nev\u00ader heard of the bal\u00adlet \u201cLa Dame aux Cam\u00e9lias\u201d before, though I\u2019ve seen the opera on TV. Hon\u00adest\u00adly, I was a bit skep\u00adti\u00adcal after buy\u00ading the rather expen\u00adsive tick\u00adets, think\u00ading of it as a Spring Fes\u00adti\u00adval gift for my chil\u00addren.
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\nI went to the the\u00adater ahead of time to read the intro\u00adduc\u00adtion and learned that this bal\u00adlet fea\u00adtures some twists in its nar\u00adra\u00adtive, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly the inclu\u00adsion of \u201cManon,\u201d a bal\u00adlet adapt\u00aded from the nov\u00adel \u201cManon,\u201d as a play with\u00adin a play and a mir\u00adror to the fate of the Lady of the Camel\u00adlias. I thought this was indeed very cre\u00adative, but it also made the sto\u00adry more com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded. How would it be per\u00adformed?
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\nBefore the the\u00adater had even set\u00adtled down, there was move\u00adment on the stage. Some\u00adone was milling about among the auc\u00adtion set. I was per\u00adplexed. Could they be busy set\u00adting up the set? The audi\u00adence around me seemed equal\u00adly bewil\u00addered. Many had\u00adn\u2019t set\u00adtled yet, still milling about, try\u00ading to find their seats, or bet\u00adter. It felt a bit chaot\u00adic, both on and off stage. Then, the lights grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly dimmed, and I knew for sure that the bal\u00adlet had begun. But the audi\u00adence around me was still busy set\u00adtling in. The elder\u00adly man sit\u00adting in front of me seemed com\u00adplete\u00adly con\u00adfused. When he saw the black-clad pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist (Armand) sud\u00adden\u00adly col\u00adlapse on the stage, he jok\u00ading\u00adly said to his wife, \u201cHey, he must be drunk!\u201d
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\nBut when the first note sound\u00aded, the whole audi\u00adence fell silent, and a warm feel\u00ading filled my heart. Chopin, ah, it was Chopin! With that famil\u00adiar and enchant\u00adi\u00adng melody, the bal\u00adlet tru\u00adly began.
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\nThe first act is pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly nar\u00adra\u00adtive, with a clear plot and struc\u00adture. I imag\u00adine even chil\u00addren who know at least a lit\u00adtle about the sto\u00adry will be able to fol\u00adlow it. Of course, the ulti\u00admate thrill is watch\u00ading Chopin\u2019s music trans\u00adform into beau\u00adti\u00adful dance, a dance that actu\u00adal\u00adly tells a sto\u00adry, and does so with remark\u00adable clar\u00adi\u00adty. Wow, it\u2019s all Chopin from begin\u00adning to end!
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\nhttp:\/\/landaishu.zhongwenlink.com\/home\/upload20083\/201023172248366.gif<\/a>
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\nThe sec\u00adond act com\u00adplete\u00adly cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded me! I\u2019m sure many in the audi\u00adence felt the same way. The three pas de deux in the mid\u00addle were incred\u00adi\u00adbly cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00ading. One depict\u00aded the mutu\u00adal affec\u00adtion between Lady of the Camel\u00adlias and Armand, anoth\u00ader fea\u00adtured Armand\u2019s father rem\u00adi\u00adnisc\u00ading about his encounter with her, and final\u00adly, Lady of the Camel\u00adlias\u2019s forced smile and the ten\u00adder embrace she shared with Armand before their final farewell. The third pas de deux was espe\u00adcial\u00adly thrilling, and I could\u00adn\u2019t con\u00adtain my excite\u00adment. A surge of elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty coursed through my body.
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\nI think George Sand once said that Chopin\u2019s music is like a lover\u2019s caress. Indeed, I sense a faint melan\u00adcholy smile and a gen\u00adtle, sweet sigh in many of Chopin\u2019s melodies. But tonight, thanks to this incred\u00adi\u00adbly beau\u00adti\u00adful bal\u00adlet, I felt a renewed sense of the pro\u00adfound pathos and poignant beau\u00adty hid\u00adden with\u00adin Chopin\u2019s melody! From then on, Chopin was no longer the same Chopin.
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\nThe poignant beau\u00adty of the third act, right up to the very end, pierces the heart. The direc\u00adtor\u2019s super\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion of Manon\u2019s tragedy with that of the Lady of the Camel\u00adlias seems to sug\u00adgest a cer\u00adtain fatal\u00adism. As I watched the ter\u00admi\u00adnal\u00adly ill Lady of the Camel\u00adlias force her\u00adself to apply heavy blush, don a scar\u00adlet dress, and wear a black veil, arriv\u00ading at the the\u00adater for her final view\u00ading of Manon\u2019s trag\u00adic con\u00adclu\u00adsion, I closed my eyes sev\u00ader\u00adal times, unable to bear to watch any longer.
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\nThat chore\u00ado\u00adg\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader, Mr. Neumeier, who is said to be a mas\u00adter of bal\u00adlet, was tru\u00adly heart\u00adless. He adapt\u00aded the end\u00ading of Alexan\u00addre Dumas\u2019s fils, so that even though Manon could still die in the arms of her lover, he made the Lady of the Camel\u00adlias fall alone in her apart\u00adment. Sigh~~~
\n <\/p>\n

    
\nThis long sigh con\u00adtin\u00adued until I woke up this morn\u00ading, and I had to write down a few words to share with you.
\n <\/p>\n

    
\nI just want to say that friends who have the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to watch it should not miss it. Friends who love \u201cLa Dame aux Cam\u00e9lias\u201d or Chopin should espe\u00adcial\u00adly not miss it. For friends who love both, it is real\u00adly a super feast!
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\nIn addi\u00adtion, it is espe\u00adcial\u00adly suit\u00adable for friends who have not tast\u00aded the intox\u00adi\u00adca\u00adtion and heart\u00adbreak of being in love for a long time, that wave of crazy heartache\u2026
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\nAjia \u2026
\nFeb\u00adru\u00adary 4, 2010, Bei\u00adjing<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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