Chapter 268: The Phantom of the Opera
When leaving the Hamamatsu Music Hall, the Japanese media reporters who rushed to hear the news almost let Liao Yuan and others stay in this land forever.
After dodging the long guns and short guns, the group returned to the hotel to observe the footage that had just been taken.
Obviously, this trip to Japan, I met Liao Yuan by chance, and "Love Travel" can be described as an unexpected joy.
Several cameras completely recorded the entire competition process, and after director Qu Liangwei witnessed all this, he was excited to foam at the stars: "That's it, just this videotape, you can definitely make a documentary special!"
"Teacher Liao's performance is fantastic, I've already thought of the title, the first shot of the wife protector!"
"No, no, no, it should be called, 'Destroy you, what do you have to do with it!'"
"Laugh at me, you didn't see the desperate eyes of Tokugawa Harumi! Oh my God, it's so distressing!"
"This incident warns us that a mountain is higher than a mountain, and we should not be arrogant in doing things......"
Liao Yuan took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Actually, it's not our right, doing this is no less than smashing other people's fields, after all, it is an internationally renowned event, so noisy, it has a bad reputation." ”
"That's not to blame Mr. Liao, it's that Tokugawa Harumi who is too arrogant, and he has to laugh at all the audience!"
"Yes, if I had the ability of Teacher Liao, I would have beaten this grandson down a long time ago, and I would say that I would not accept the battle, I bah!"
"The rules of this competition, as well as those judges, are obviously biased towards Japan, Miss Lin Weiyin is too much of a loss!"
A group of people chattered, and soon, Lin Weiyin's team returned to the hotel.
Liao Yuan's shot did not change the final result of the event, Lin Weiyin still only won the second place in the end, not to mention the halving of the prize money, and the original first-place concert tour project also missed her, but Lin Weiyin did not feel sorry, this kind of thing may have been used to for her for a long time, the only surprise is this time......
Lin Weiyin secretly glanced at Liao Yuan.
Liao Yuan was holding dumbbells and was exercising his biceps.
In the absence of a camera to follow up, Liao Yuan has obviously changed a person, there is almost no interaction with her, the flamboyant tongue in the lens has become silent and cold, and even in the face of Lin Weiyin's active chat, it is slightly perfunctory.
A hint of disappointment flashed in Lin Weiyin's eyes.
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After the trip to Japan, the "Love Travel" team returned to China and immediately edited the previous filming.
The entire Hamamatsu International Piano Competition has been able to support the broadcast content of two episodes.
This led to the original script being temporarily put on the next recording, and because of this emergency, the performance script between the men and women had to be modified, and efforts were made to increase the sense of CP between the two, at least to make the audience's hearts burst into the hearts of the girls.
On the other hand, as June approaches, the Tchaikovsky Championship is about to begin.
Peter Leiden, deputy secretary general of the Geneva Competition Alliance, also sent an invitation letter to Liao Yuan in advance, inviting Liao Yuan to go to Russia to serve as a judge of this year's Tchaikovsky Competition.
At the same time, the performance video submitted by Pei Hongyu, a small advance player of Little Yellow Croaker, also passed the qualifying review of the Tchaikovsky Competition Organizing Committee and received an invitation to the competition.
The two will travel to Russia on June 14 to participate in the tournament, which will be held for about a week.
During this time, the Kyoto Opera House had been preparing for the official release of "The Phantom of the Opera" for nearly a year.
Zhou Yijun referred to Liao Yuan's idea, invited a large number of ordinary audiences to conduct a test screening, and re-found a soprano actress at the Central Conservatory of Music, whose appearance and figure were all online, replacing the previous elderly actress.
After months of preparation, The Phantom of the Opera made its official debut at the Kyoto Opera House in mid-May.
And it was a huge hit on the first day of release.
In just one week, with the word-of-mouth effect, "The Phantom of the Opera" has become the most popular opera in the entire capital.
And the theme song of the same name in "The Phantom of the Opera" also became popular quickly with the popularity of the opera and spread rapidly on the Internet.
Soon, people discovered that the script and theme song of "The Phantom of the Opera" were all written by Liao Yuan.
Liao Yuan's popularity has been quite popular recently, and there are naturally a lot of concerns, so many media and experts have studied "The Phantom of the Opera" one after another.
The response to the concert was generally positive.
But the script of "The Phantom of the Opera" itself has been complained about by almost all experts.
"Is this still the same Liao Yuan who wrote "Signal", "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and "The Tuner"?"
"Disappointment, great disappointment!"
"The plot is simple and straightforward, with no depth at all!"
"It's ghostwriting, right? It must be ghostwriting!"
"Compared with Liao Yuan's previous works, the quality is indeed a bit unsatisfactory......"
The plot of "The Phantom of the Opera" is indeed too straightforward.
The whole mainly tells the story of a love triangle, which is not very attractive in film and television works, but if it is presented as a stage play, the charm of "The Phantom of the Opera" obviously still exists.
The sold-out screening of the Kyoto Opera House is the strongest proof of this.
But this obviously does not meet the expectations of netizens, especially some audiences who have never watched the concert at all, and even feel that I am not optimistic about the work - it must be garbage.
However, as the time period passed, "The Phantom of the Opera" gradually showed its own great influence.
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Delia Lane is a reporter for National Geographic magazine in the United States, and because of her work, she often travels to the Beijing branch in Huaxia.
On this day, on a flight, she read the synopsis of "The Phantom of the Opera" through a magazine.
The love triangle in the story, as well as a series of episodes resulting from jealousy, chases, and murders, intrigued Delia.
The most important thing is that by downloading the theme song of "The Phantom of the Opera", she felt the tension and touching of the plot in the lyrics, which made her heart moved and felt the extraordinaryness of this musical.
So after getting off the plane and taking care of her work, Delia couldn't wait to go to the opera house to buy tickets.
However, she was told by the conductor that the tickets were sold out, much to Delia's distress.
Because after today, she will fly back to the United States.
If you want to come to Huaxia again, you may have to wait until a month later.
Just when she was distressed, a man wearing a baseball cap and carrying a waist bag sneakily came to Delia, poked Delia's shoulder, and said mysteriously: "Comrade, do you want a ticket?
"Hat?" Delia looked at him quizzically.
Seeing this, the man hurriedly made body language movements, hurriedly explained, and also took out a poster of "The Phantom of the Opera", as well as the ticket, and stretched out a finger: "One thousand!"
Delia understands, scalper!
There are also scalpers in the United States, who are converted from the early "ticket brokers", who are extremely professional in all aspects, and do not give the police the handle to get evidence at all.
There is really no such blatant sale of scalper tickets!
"Five hundred. Delia opened her wallet and said in blunt Chinese.
"Five hundred is not good, comrade, you are also ruthless in bargaining, how can you directly cut half of it, at least eight hundred!"
"Six hundred!"
"Eight hundred, not even one less!"
In the end, the transaction was closed for 700 yuan.
After the ticket seller left happily, the conductor who had witnessed this scene from beginning to end, when he took the scalper ticket, said coldly: "Silly girl, our opera house has a big reward, the ticket is very discounted, the lowest ticket price is only eighty, and the highest is only four hundred and nine, and the position of your ticket is eighty yuan." ”
Delia blinked.
Once inside the theater, The Phantom of the Opera had just begun.
Delia took her seat and finally found her place in the corner of the second floor.
Fortunately, it didn't affect the viewing, Delia didn't care about this, and began to enjoy the opera happily.
Because of frequent business trips to China, she also studied Chinese for a period of time, but because Chinese is too awkward, she has been studying for two years, and she can only communicate with short greetings, but it is no problem to listen to some simple daily exchanges.
And the straightforwardness of the lines in "The Phantom of the Opera" almost fits her Chinese vocabulary.
She looked at the scenes without blinking:
In an opera house in Paris, strange things happen frequently, the original lead actress is almost stoned to death, and a creepy and illusory male voice appears in the theater.
This voice comes from the "ghost" who lives in the underground labyrinth of the theater, who falls in love with the actress Manni, secretly teaches her to sing, and helps her get the position of the heroine, while Manni is in love with the theater manager Song Zhexuan, which causes a series of episodes such as jealousy, chasing, and murder.
Eventually, the "ghost" realizes that his love for Manni has exceeded his personal possessiveness, so he frees Manni, leaves behind his cloak and mask, and disappears into the dimly lit underground labyrinth alone.
The whole opera lasted for more than two hours, during which Delia never left her seat at all, and every second was attracted by the bumpy fate of the male and female protagonists, as well as the thrilling action.
It wasn't until the end of the play, when the theme song of "The Phantom of the Opera" was sung, that Delia came back to her senses.
She felt her scalp tingle and a great excitement in her heart.
The whole "Phantom of the Opera" does not see the slightest bit of Eastern cultural heritage, this is a musical created in accordance with Western culture!
Although the story is simple and not too suspenseful, it has a series of musical elements such as jealousy, ethics, murder, and chase, which make Westerners eagerly pay attention.
"Good work!"
"America needs you!"
Delia quickly left the Kyoto Opera House.
Musicals are very popular in the United States, there is a Broadway Avenue in the United States, the streets are more than 20 kilometers long, extremely large, and specially to do American plays and musicals, in the United States, when it comes to Broadway, musicals will inevitably come to mind, which shows the prevalence of American opera culture.
And Delia's father is the owner of several opera houses on Broadway!
A week later, Zhou Yijun of the Kyoto Opera House unexpectedly met with a pot-bellied Yankee and invited him to watch the whole performance of "The Phantom of the Opera".
More than two hours later, the Yankees asked Zhou Yijun with glowing eyes, "How much?"
"What?" Zhou Yijun was stunned for a moment.
"How much does it cost? I'm going to buy the rights to this opera!"
The Yankees said domineeringly: "I'm Tony on Broadway, if you've been to the United States and been to Broadway, you should know who I am!"
The only knows who you are!
Zhou Yijun hesitated a little, and after finding an excuse to deal with the other party, he asked someone to check Tony's identity on Broadway.
Soon, the results of the investigation came out, Tony Lane, the American theater boss, owned seven opera houses under his name, all of which were stationed on the long street of Broadway, which was more than 20 kilometers long, and also owned the rights to many famous operas.
This shocked Zhou Yijun.
He can't make a decision, and in fact, he has no right to decide, because the copyright of this musical is in Liao Yuan's hands.
Soon, Liao Yuan received news from Zhou Yijun and met with Tony Lane.
When he learned that "The Phantom of the Opera" was actually written by the young man in front of him, Tony tried to open his eyes wide, "Hello, Liao, I may have seen you, yes, I have definitely seen you, your appearance, I am very familiar." ”
Liao Yuan was surprised, smiled and said, "Really?"
"Of course!"
Tony couldn't think of it, and didn't talk nonsense, and directly patted the "Phantom of the Opera" poster on the table: "Liao, you should know that such an opera can only be carried forward in Europe and the United States, in the whole play, except for the actors and names, there is no Oriental element, I guess, you must be a young man who likes to understand British culture!" Because in your opera, you have a deep understanding of British culture, and we in the United States and Britain have a common culture, and I believe that under my operation, this opera will develop into a behemoth, and it will lead us to the pinnacle of opera!"
Tony is a very capable leader, and at least in a few words, he laid out the characteristics of "The Phantom of the Opera" and its future in front of Liao Yuan.
There's no one who isn't impressed.
"How much do you think it's worth?" asked Liao Yuan with a smile.
Tony was stunned, but still said, "At least a billion dollars!"
Liao Yuan smiled, in his previous life, "The Phantom of the Opera" swept more than three billion dollars at the box office, almost the most successful musical, but without the ability of foresight, he was able to predict a billion dollars at the box office, obviously Tony is very optimistic about the future achievements of this musical.
Next to him, Zhou Yijun was startled when he heard the figure of one billion US dollars.
"Liao Yuan, won't you be a liar?"
Zhou Yijun approached Liao Yuan and asked in a low voice.
Liao Yuan asked, "Have you investigated his identity?"
Zhou Yijun nodded and said: "I investigated, but the figure he said is too bluffing, I can't believe it, one billion US dollars, converted into RMB, is not more than 6 billion box office?"
Hearing this, Liao Yuan looked at Tony: "I heard that you have seven opera houses on Broadway?"
Tony looked proud: "Yes, this is the record of three generations, in the heyday of a hundred years ago, our Lane family owned more than twenty opera houses on Broadway!"
Liao Yuan smiled: "That's pretty powerful." ”
Tony looked at Liao Yuan and said a little discouraged: "Liao, although we are in decline now, it's not really that we don't have strength, we have rich experience in operation, but we lack an amazing work, Broadway never treats any excellent work, and "The Phantom of the Opera" is the key factor that can make our Ryan family shine again!"
"Let me think about it. ”
Liao Yuan stood up and said, "I'll give you an answer in three days, OK?"
Tony looked a little embarrassed, but still said: "Can you guarantee to cooperate with me first?" You can rest assured, the price is not a problem, we Americans are very generous." ”
"Sorry, it can be hard. ”
Liao Yuan said: "You wait for my news!"
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