What can everyone think of when it comes to opera? Is it the glorious and brilliant sun in Pavarotti's mouth, the fantastic and brilliant Turandot in Verdi's pen, or the Romeo and Juliet who have entangled the world for a hundred years. These are closely related to Italy, and opera has become synonymous with Italy.
Verona, an ancient and beautiful city, where Shakespeare's love story of Romeo and Juliet takes place. She was given a romantic mecca of love that attracted opera fans and young men and women all over the world.
In the summer of 1914, in order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the opera master Verdi, the Italian tenor Ginatero and the theater manager Rovato decided to hold a music festival to stage Verdi's opera "Aida", because the sound effects and visual sensations impressed all the audiences, the Verona Amphitheater became the world's largest amphitheater, and the Verona Opera Festival also came into being, after 90 years of time is still prestigious.
Every summer, when verona's Arena di Verona is at its most lively, almost every day a large opera festival, the "Verona Summer Opera Festival", which lasts from June to August, receiving more than 600,000 people, but it is the world's most popular and box office revenue, each of which is almost full, and the audience who loves opera is dressed up to pay tribute to opera.
Here, we can enjoy classic and famous opera works such as "Carmen", "Tosca", "Turandot", "Nabuco", "Romeo and Juliet", "Aida", etc., and also have the opportunity to meet the titans of the opera world, such as André Bouchelli, Placido Domingo, Spanish bass singer José Carreras, all of whom are "seaters" on the stage of the Verona Amphitheatre.
Verona Arena
The ruins of the Verona Arena were built in 30 AD and were originally located outside verona. Today, its central location is close to many local attractions, including casa di Giulietta in The House of Juliet Capulet in Shakespeare's plays. The competitions and performances hosted by the Arena are very famous; as such, they attract not only Verona, but also more Italian and European audiences. In ancient times, amphitheaters could accommodate 25,000 people at a time.
The Verona Open Air Theatre is one of the most well-preserved Roman buildings in all of Italy, second only to the Colosseum and the Campano Amphitheater. Also known as Arenal, it means sand mound. The Verona Theater is an oval building, tall and magnificent, 138 meters long, 109 meters wide, 30 meters high, with two floors and 72 arches each. The auditorium is a stone staircase, from the bottom up, step by step, a total of 40 levels, can accommodate more than 30,000 people. The oval flat ground in the center of the theater, 73 meters long and 44 meters wide, is an ancient stage; when performing, it is the most expensive "pool seat" where wooden boards and chairs are placed.
In addition to this, the Verona Arena Theatre has some special small details: its unique stone structure makes the sound conveyed very well, and it is said that the sound of a needle falling on the stage without the use of any amplification equipment can be clearly heard by the audience in the last row. A screen was also erected high in the arena to display lyrics in English and Italian so that people could understand the opera and understand the plot. And, most romantically, in Verona, when you enter the theater, you will be pleasantly surprised to find a candle holding a candle next to your seat. Before the performance began, the audience lit candles in their hands, the lights dimmed, and the candlelight swayed in the darkness, and the scene was very spectacular.
I announce that going to the Verona Opera Festival with someone I like should be included in the list of 100 things that couples must do!! Single friends don't worry, the probability of encounters in this kind of place is simply doubled, but the premise is to learn the language well, and be prepared for every opportunity!
Writing here even I feel moved, Italy is worthy of Italy, really too good! I wish I could just put in a wing and fly to Verona now, it seems that the day is still too late!! (Dreaming ing...)
So what are you waiting for! Heart is not as good as action, friends who want to study abroad do not look at it, come and choose MAMAMIA, focus on professional single-mindedness, language study abroad a road service, to help you achieve the dream of close romantic encounters and listening to opera!! (Of course, it is to study for further study.)