中国戏曲与西方歌剧.ppt

Beijing Opera compared with Western Opera Chinese opera and western opera are both one of type of artistic forms which formed in different regions, social patterns,national cultural backgrunds.And it is a comprehensive art which mix the music,drama,literature, dance and painting all together. Chinese opera formed before the song and yuan dynasties in the 12th century,which earlier 400 years than western opera. /watch?v=DKZ-RHI7OcY （霸王别姬） Western opera raised at the historic moment of the European Renaissance period in not the 16 century,in the early 17 century.And it originated from Italy. /watch?v=5a0juQ0aeGI 我的太阳 /watch?v=yYqKukeZFD0 卡门 While chinses opera characterised by the unique national instrumental music. From the aspect of play,traditional chinses opera was composed from legends,historical characters and biography interseting which provide a large space to write the script.So ,it fullfills with strong literature and sociality and pay most attention to the practical significance of operas. While western opera composed from legend or creat by dramatist,the plot is not as important as singing,even some classic opera is also regarded too simple to deeply deliberate. The most important feature of traditional chinese opera is the virtual performance.Traditional chinese opera has been using small stage with symbolic and simple scenery,mainly depends on the actors’talent and not quite pay attention to the scenery. The space of stage is not settled and the time is also flexible which changed following performance. Stage art dose not imitate life,but select,refine,exaggerate and beautify with original life,and bring us to the palace of art. While western opera use large and luxuriours stage to foil atmosphere where the space and time of the stage are specific.If the time and space changes,you should move the scence.The most remarkable feature is to reflect life turly and western dramatists regard stage as