How does the opera "Embroidered Girl" use rich composition techniques to provide unique interpretations of characters' personalities and emotions?
The opera "Embroidered Girl" is based on the poor artists of the Latin Quarter of Paris at that time, and tells the real life and love stories of those little people at the bottom of society.
The play takes the poet Rudolph and the embroidered girl Mimi as the main line, and their love story is the core of the entire opera, and Mimi, as the number one heroine, runs through the story.
Today, Xiao Zhang will take you to talk about how the opera "Embroidered Girl" uses rich composition techniques to make unique interpretations of characters' personalities and emotions?
In this opera, she is so innocent, kind, and simple, her beauty is fully reflected in both music and drama, and such a perfect combination of techniques makes the shaping of this character vivid, image, and personality.
The character of Mimi is one of the small people in the context of the big time at that time, the incompleteness of the bourgeois revolution, and these people at the bottom live in the double oppression of capitalism and feudalism.
However, in such a context of the times, the little people still have their own ideals and expectations, but these ideals and longings still fail to escape the shackles given to them by the times, and the result can only be tragedies.
Realist opera developed into the Puccini era, and the storyline did not have the exaggerated dramatic conflict and direct expression of Mascagni and Leoncavallo.
Some are a higher artistic refinement of real life, and the expression techniques are much richer, which makes Puccini's characters distinct, delicate and intriguing.
Four young poets Rudolf, painter Mazello, musician Shawner, and philosopher Colin came from Bohemia to the Latin Quarter of Paris, dreaming and carrying the passion and arrogance of young people.
On the dilapidated downstairs they rented, there lived an embroidered girl, Mimi, a neighbor who came to borrow fire from Rudolph, and the spark of love suddenly ignited, and their story began.
At this time, Mimi was astringent and reserved, like a bud waiting to be bloomed, and she told Lu Daoda about her life, and her language was simple and subtle.
In terms of dramatic action, Mimi knocks carefully on the door before entering the house, avoids her eyes when she meets Rudolf for the first time, and details such as sudden dizziness and unsteadiness on her feet vividly portray a naïve and cute, not deeply involved in the world, and weak and sickly.
In the second act, young people gather in a café, and Rudolph brings Mimi in and proudly introduces her beloved Mimi to his friends, who can be described as happy as a flower.
In the portrayal of the characters, the writer did not describe Mimi's character in detail, but contrasted Mimi's gentle and restrained personality by describing Jisetta's passionate and indulgent and free personality, which not only highlighted the character's personality, but also enhanced the dramatic effect of the story.
At the third act level, Rudolph, who is increasingly estranged from Mimi, makes Mimi miserable and sad, she looks for her lover, and asks the painter Mazello for help, so that Rudolf does not suspect her and does not leave her.
When Rudolph came out of the hotel, she turned and hid behind a tree, an action that reflected Mimi's caution and caution.
She hears the real reason why Rudolph flew away from him, it turns out that he learned that Mimi was ill and would die soon, but as her lover, she was unable to do anything because of poverty, and did not want to watch her lover die hastening in the attic, so she chose to be estranged.
At this time, Mimi had mixed feelings, for Rudolph's love for her, she secretly decided to leave Rudolph, she sang her heart painfully, expressing Mimi's pain and helplessness in the face of the double blow of love and illness.
The last act is the same scene as the first act, but the passion and persistence of the story turn into pain and despair.
At this time, Mimi is already dying, and Seta rewards her earrings, and Marcello sells her coat to buy medicine and the handcage she wants, hoping to make Mimi happier in the last time.
However, what she is most looking forward to is her lover Rudolph, who learns that she is short of time and goes to the attic, where Mimi sees him and pretends to sleep to let others leave.
When Rudolph pointed to her cold little hand with grief and helplessness, she sang: "They are gone, I just pretended to be asleep, I want to be alone with you for a while, my love is like the sea, I love you all my life." ”
Just a few words of allegory mean that even if the light of her life is about to be extinguished, the flame of love is still burning, showing Mimi's noble character of loyalty and persistence to love, and bringing this role to a successful end.
The music of realist opera tends to be emotionally expressive, and it is more simple than the music of the Romantic period.
Arias are the main embodiment of opera character building, and Mimi's aria in "Embroidered Girl" is a classic, in these two arias, Puccini uses rich composition techniques to interpret the characters' personalities, emotions, etc.
"Embroidered Girl" as a classic of realist opera, the successful shaping of Mimi's image undoubtedly gives the status of this opera an uncertain foundation.
Puccini's modification of the original work and the repositioning of Mimi make the dramatic characteristics of Mimi's character have a distinct personality, and at the same time, the successful shaping of Mimi's musical image also makes Mimi, the soul character throughout the overall situation, three-dimensional and vivid.
