In addition to Shen Jianping, one of the top dramatic sopranos in China, other soprano mezzo-sopranos, and other roles in operas such as tenor and baritone, Zhou Xiuying plans to invite the strongest opera singers in China to help Qin Fangge

And this time, Qin Fangge will also be the complete protagonist.

Unlike the previous concerts, it only took a few minutes of "Beautiful Days" to do the thing.

The whole opera was performed in its entirety, and the time was two hours and ten minutes, which was also a test of strength for other opera singers.

Zhou Xiuying intends to take this as a test of the students' studies, everyone is actually very clear in their hearts, sometimes, it is really not to blame Qin Fangge for not being willing to appear, and it is also a very painful thing to play with actors who are not at the same level.

As for the time arrangement, it is also arranged before the year, and this year's Chinese New Year is relatively late, so there is more time, and Zhou Xiuying can also organize more rehearsals for a while.

In addition to these students who trained Zhou Xiuying, the symphony orchestra of the National Centre for the Performing Arts and the opera house and the choir also needed to strengthen their training.

For Zhou Xiuying, this is also an opportunity for rectification. Inject a clear spring into the opera world, which is somewhat backwater, and make more ripples. And her expectations for Qin Fangge are also very high, and only people like him can lead others and lead the overall atmosphere of the vocal opera world.

If you want to forcibly pull out other opera singers as a model, I'm afraid they don't have that kind of confidence, although they are blowing loudly outside, what is the real strength, they also have the bottom in their hearts. Let's put it this way, even veteran opera fans can't fool around, let alone industry insiders.

The opera "Alonso" is actually not rehearsed much in the domestic opera industry, and the main reason is that the male protagonist in it, the world's highest difficulty level, the continuous octave tenor really frightened many people.

Moreover, if you are not at home or abroad, there are not many people who rehearse.

Several world-renowned tenor singers who have performed in the past can only perform in the best state. Like Qin Fangge, it can be done in an ordinary state, which is really rare. If I had to give an example, it would be the legendary figure of Italy more than 200 years ago, Toscanini.

According to Zhou Xiuying's opinion, Toscanini is really an unprecedented opera singer, and many of the repertoire he sang were not challenged by anyone in the next few hundred years, and those repertoire were also sealed. She even thought that Toscanini was a newcomer, until the appearance of Qin Fangge made Zhou Xiuying see the dawn of hope.

In her usual training, she also worked in this direction intentionally or unintentionally, Toscanini's voice is able to surpass the existence of the violin, and suppress the performance of the violin group with her own strength, and this scene is also regarded as a classic scene in the vocal opera world, a legendary event, which has been passed down to this day.

There's no doubt that Toscanini was very talented, but there was another important factor, he was a eunuch singer, or eunuch singer.

In the history of Western music, especially in the history of Western opera, eunuch singers have occupied a very important chapter.

Not only is Zhou Xiuying in this world, but also the world where Qin Fangge came.

The so-called castration singer refers to boys with loud and clear voices, who have undergone cruel castration surgery to change their developed voices before entering puberty, because of the changes in sex hormones in the body, their vocal channels will be narrowed, which is conducive to the expansion of the vocal range, coupled with huge lung capacity and vocal volume, so that they have more than 3 times the extraordinary voice of ordinary people

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Eunuch singers first appeared in the 16th century, when the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first introduced eunuch singers because women were unable to participate in choirs and were not allowed to appear on stage. Eunuch singers were also all the rage in the bel canto era, when most opera singers were eunuchs.

Mentioning this, Qin Fangge also had to secretly congratulate himself that he had not crossed the wrong era, if it was in the 16th century, if he possessed a eunuch singer, it would be better to die. No matter how brilliant your career is, no matter how respected you are, what's the point.

You can't win 'em all.

And the eunuch singer after losing a lot, even as a man's basic function. Generally children from poor families, in the extensive selection and training, in the end, a large number of outstanding talents emerged, produced many great singers, such as Caffarelli, Farinelli, and created the golden age of bel canto singing, but also achieved the glory of modern opera.

According to Farinelli's life story, he also made a movie "The Peerless Enchantress", which was also highly evaluated, and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

It is a very peculiar thing to use a demon queen to describe a man, and it is known as a peerless demon queen, which makes this story very legendary.

It's just that in the movie, Farinelli's singing voice is something that modern singers can't deduce, especially the most classic singing segments, which can only be completed through computer post-production, with different voices of male voices, female voices, and children's voices.

The evaluation of this kind of eunuch singer who has reached the pinnacle in the history of opera is also very high.

A German scholar wrote: "The young eunuch singer has a crisp, beautiful, and incomparable voice, and no woman can have such a crisp, powerful, and sweet voice." ”

Charles Parney, the famous 18th-century English music historian, once described Farinelli's singing in London in 1734: "He made the previous tune very delicate, and the music gradually increased little by little, slowly rising to the high notes, and then slowly decreasing in the same way, descending to the low notes, which is amazing." As soon as the singing stopped, applause immediately erupted, which lasted for five minutes. After the applause subsided, he continued to sing, which was very light and melodious. Its rhythm was so light that it was difficult for violins at that time to keep up. ”

Even the famous French playwright Voltaire, who had always been prejudiced against eunuchs, admitted: "Their singing voices are more beautiful than those of women." ”

Although the singing voice is beautiful, it is against modern morality after all, and the eunuch singer disappeared after the 18th century.

Although the eunuch singer has disappeared, the vocal art of the eunuch and his bel canto singing, including various ornamental phrases, such as selanges, legatos, tremolos, trills and cadenzas, have been incorporated into the opera and are not widely accepted by the general public. It's just that tenors who can perform these bel canto singing styles well are becoming more and more difficult to find.

And Qin Fangge is the person who is most likely to surpass all this.

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