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On the way from Glasgow to Edinburgh on this day, when they passed by the Forth of Forth, a tall girl with dark chestnut wavy and dark skin beckoned to them on the side of the road. Benedict applied the brakes, and the car came to a stop beside her.

"Are you going to Edinburgh?" She asked, "Can I get a ride?" ”

"Absolutely." Mr. Gavin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, got out of the car and gave up his seat to the lady, and went to the back seat to squeeze with his friends. Fortunately, none of the three of them are of the kind of sturdy type, even if three big men sit in the back, they will not be crowded.

All four men introduced themselves, and the beauty didn't seem to be a person who paid attention to entertainment news or TV movies, and didn't react in the slightest to the names of the two big stars. She greeted them politely: "My name is Kelpai, I live in Forth Bay, and the car was damaged yesterday and sent for repair, so I can only stop the car on the road, thank you so much." ”

"You're welcome, Miss Kirkpai." Benedict said, "Where are you going to get off?" ”

"I want to go to the Royal Mile, if our destination is different, you can just drop me off at the nearest fork in the road."

They also went to the Royal Mile, and there was so much to see, and yesterday they were less than halfway there.

As soon as she got out of the car, she was surrounded by friends, and her destination was a small theater. She smiled and said, "Gentlemen, our program today is an opera, would you be interested in coming in and watching it?" ”

Li Han and the others didn't have any special arrangements, so they followed her into the theater. This theatre has a history of more than 100 years, and it is incomparable to the big theatres in London in terms of stage and seats, but it has another kind of historical vicissitudes.

The Kerrpies and her friends were not professional actors and did not belong to any acting company, they were just lovers of opera, so they rehearsed a play together for the Edinburgh Festival.

When the actors were ready and the audience was in, the lights dimmed and the music played. Benedict laughed after listening to a short paragraph: "I didn't pay attention to the announcement when I came in, it turned out that I was playing Carmen." ”

The opera "Carmen" is based on Mérimée's novel of the same name, is the last opera of the French composer Bizet, the play was successful after Bizet's death, the American soprano Glastin Farr's sound film and Charlie Chaplin's silent film expanded the reputation of the opera, is the most staged opera in the world today, known as "one of the greatest French operas in the 19th century, marking the birth of French realist opera".

The opera was not popular when it first came out, the heroine Carmen behaved debaucherily and immorally, the story was vulgar and too realistic, etc., and the mainstream of society was always male, and they couldn't help but feel sorry for Tannhauser, an army corporal with a bright future, but was seduced by Carmen to degenerate and eventually become a painful murderer. As a result, the play's March 1875 performance in Paris was a complete failure, and Georges Bizet, who had suffered from a long illness, died of depression. "The low social status of the characters makes the whole play lack elegant temperament", "lacks melodic beauty and is not bright enough", and "the orchestral music is too heavy and overpowers the human voice" all became the reasons for critics at the time to reprimand this opera.

No one would have imagined that Carmen would today be regarded as one of the highest achievements in the field of opera, loved all over the world. Those criticisms are now seen as merit: Carmen, who is spicy and straightforward, has an independent personality, and is the most glorious image in the whole play; The exotic melodies (Spanish and gypsy styles) are admired and constantly transformed into other forms of music, the orchestral parts are extraordinarily infectious and expressive, and play the most important role in revealing the plot and rendering the atmosphere, while the realism that pervades the whole play touches the hearts of the people with a strong force.

The overture of the opera is in A major, rondo. The whole overture is built on a sharply contrasting image, with a gorgeous, compact, and compelling music that expresses the main content of the opera, a piece often performed alone in concerts, with which Benedict is clearly very familiar. As for Li Han, that is, he knows that there is such an opera, and he probably knows what it is about, and he can only understand it by Benedict's whispered explanation.

In the 19th century, when romance and passion were in the air, in the beautiful Spanish town of Seville, there was a charming gypsy girl who used her short life trajectory to play a shocking love aria, her name was Carmen. When she falls in love with a man, she will put her heart and soul into it; When she no longer loves, she gives up without hesitation.

Although "Carmen" depicts the tragedy of love, **, jealousy, and hatred, because there are a lot of dialogues in the play, this opera that ends with the death of the hero and heroine is actually a comedy opera.

The opera consists of four acts, and mainly portrays a beautiful and stubborn gypsy girl - Carmen, a tobacco factory worker. Carmen falls in love with Don Hause, the leader of the military squad, and abandons the gentle and kind Mikaella from his time in the countryside. Later, Tannhauser was arrested and imprisoned for letting Carmen fight with the female workers, and after his release he joined the ranks of Carmen's smugglers. However, when Carmen meets Escamillo, a matador, she realizes that this is her true love. While Carmen cheers for Escamillio's victory in bullfighting, she dies at the dagger of Don Hausser. With its unique power, the whole play creates a strong drama, showing the gripping real life, and becoming an opera that is appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar, and has a lasting vitality.

There are two famous arias in the first act, one is "Love is like a free bird", which is sung by Carmen when she is personally interrogated by Dragoon Lieutenant Suniha after her arrest, showing Carmen's bohemian character. The other, sung by Carmen when seducing Tannhäuser, is a charming piece of Spanish dance rhythm, with a passionate and somewhat wild melody, which further portrays the straightforwardness and pungency of Carmen's character.

The first to appear was a group of children, and when the soldiers arrived in shift, they imitated the steps of the soldiers in front of them to open the way, singing the flute and drum march "We are with the soldiers". The sexy Carmen walked out slowly, and a large group of handsome men immediately surrounded Carmen to show their courtesy, Carmen threw her eyes, but stared at the sentry Don Josse who did not squint, so she stepped on the rhythm of Habanera's dance music, seduced Don Josse and showed her love.

At the end of Act IV, as Tchaikovsky put it: "When I watch this last scene, I can't hold back my tears, on the one hand, the screams of the spectators at the sight of the matador, and on the other hand, the terrible tragic ending of the final death of the two protagonists, whose unfortunate fate has brought them to an inevitable end." ”

"As my Roma, you have the right to kill your Romy, but Carmen is always free!" This was Carmen's last declaration of freedom. Carmen pursues freedom, but José does not understand Carmen, does not understand the gypsy yearning for freedom, and he cannot integrate Carmen's admiration for freedom into his own life in the end, which dooms him and Carmen to a tragic end - they are people of two worlds, or they are two straight lines, at most there is only one intersection point, and beyond this intersection point is eternal separation. If Carmen is a bird, then José is a beautiful birdcage. The bird loved the beautiful birdcage, but she forgot that the birdcage would rob the bird of its freedom. Carmen did not forget that she was a bird, and she had to choose one of the best birds, the beautiful birdcage and the flight, and she chose freedom. As sung in "Love is a Free Bird", she is a rebellious bird, no one can catch her, tame her, restrict her, even if she eventually dies because of freedom.

Even if Li Han doesn't understand opera at all, you can see that the Kierpai performed very well, her vocal range is very wide, she is very emotional when she sings, and she is full of emotion, presenting a living Carmen in front of the audience, which makes people moved. Especially the scene of dying at the end, although Li Han pretended not to have anything to do, in fact, his eyes were a little swollen at that moment.

Benedict and Tom, two insiders, also rap very well, and they are close to the professional level: "If she wants, she can try to show herself in this area, she is very talented, and her basic skills are also very solid." ”

Li Han did not express an opinion on this, he felt that the Kaerri should be just a hobby, not like they wanted to show themselves in this area. However, he himself doesn't like art, it doesn't mean that others don't like it, the art atmosphere in Britain is very strong, the city of London is so small, there are at least hundreds of theaters, I don't know how many actors come out of the theater. Stars like Benedict and Tom also take time out to go back to the theater every year to rehearse.

At the end of the performance, the audience gave a standing ovation, and the actors took three curtain calls. Walking out of the theater, everyone was still reminiscing about the performance just now, and in a blink of an eye, they saw a team of hot samba girls dancing unrestrainedly in dynamic music, they were inserted with colorful feathers, sexy three-point wrapping their hot bodies, dark skin smooth and tight, full of **.

I don't know if I recognized Benedict or Tom, but a tall, convex and backward beauty danced and walked over, throwing winks at them, swinging her hips vigorously, causing a whistling.

Benedict suddenly laughed and said, "The last time I was at the Bare Riding Festival, I happened to be going to do a show and passed by their place. Someone might have recognized me and ran at me, wearing only one sock on top and bottom of my body, and I didn't even notice that it was a bare ride, so I was shocked. ”

"A sock?" Li Han asked puzzled.

Benedict still laughs when he thinks about it now: "Yes, a sock, worn in his small. Brother on. ”

Everyone was embarrassed.

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It's late, I'm sorry

I'm going to code tomorrow morning, I'm so sleepy...... Want to die