Tue, Oct 07, 2008 page14

• Swiss opera company stages show at station 瑞士火車站上演歌劇「茶花女」

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  Opera stars in Zurich swapped their usual grand surroundings for the hubbub of a station concourse for an innovative performance of Verdi’s “La Traviata.”

  The Zurich Opera said the performance — which was shown on Swiss, French and German television — was an attempt to connect with the man in the street by showing Verdi’s drama in a non-traditional setting.

  “This time, we wanted to set up the opera in a place where daily life is played out,” Swiss daily Le Temps reported Thomas Beck from German-language broadcaster SF1 as saying.

  The decision was inspired by a spontaneous opera performance by the BBC at London’s Paddington Station in 2004, the paper said.

  Curious travelers looked on during a rehearsal in the hall of the main railway station, Le Temps reported.

  Celebrated Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo, who takes the main role of Alfredo Germont, paced the main concourse in a shirt and tie — and holding a pint of beer.

  Other singers went up and down escalators or along the platforms, all filmed and recorded by 16 cameras and 151 microphones, Le Temps reported.

  “An opera company always needs to make an effort to win over a new generation,” Zurich Opera’s director Alexander Pereira told Le Temps.

  “If someone is touched by it, even for one or two minutes, we’ve won,” he added.

  (AFP)

  蘇黎世的歌劇明星捨棄他們平時習慣的豪華舞台，改在吵雜的車站大廳創新演出威爾第的《茶花女》。

  蘇黎世歌劇團表示，他們希望透過在非傳統場景的演出，讓一般民眾接觸威爾第的戲劇；瑞士、法國和德國的電視台也都轉播了這場演出。

  瑞士《時報》報導，湯馬士．貝克在瑞士德語電視台SF1上說：「這次，我們想把這齣歌劇搬到日常生活的場景中演出。」

  報導指出，他們是看到二ＯＯ四年英國廣播公司在倫敦柏丁登車站安排了一場即興歌劇演出後，有了這個靈感。

  《時報》報導，演出者在中央火車站大廳排演時，好奇的旅客紛紛駐足圍觀。

  飾演男主角阿弗列多•傑爾蒙的知名義大利男高音維多里歐．葛利高羅，一身西裝打著領帶，手裡還拿了瓶啤酒，在車站大廳裡來回踱步。

  《時報》報導，其他演唱者搭著手扶梯上上下下，或沿著月台來回走動。整場演出共動用了十六台攝影機和一百五十一支麥克風拍攝、收音。

  蘇黎世歌劇團導演亞歷山大．裴瑞拉向《時報》表示：「劇團一向得花心思吸引新世代。」

  他補充說道：「如果有人受到感動，即使只有一或兩分鐘，我們就成成功了。」

  （法新社�翻譯：袁星塵）

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  TODAY’S WORDS 今日單字

  1. hubbub n. 吵鬧聲 (chao3 nao4 sheng1) 例: Sarah struggled to make herself heard amidst the hubbub of the airport. (置身嘈雜機場的莎拉費勁兒地大喊，想讓人聽到她說的話。) 2. setting n. 場景 (chang2 jing3) 例: The spectacular setting ensured the movie was a great success. (拜壯觀的場景之賜，這部電影非常成功。) 3. spontaneous adj. 自發的 (zi4 fa1 de5) 例: The choir broke out into a spontaneous performance of La Boheme. (這個合唱團即興演唱了「波西米亞人」。) 4. touched by idiom. 受到感動 (shou4 dao4 gan3 dong4) 例: Nobody could fail to be touched by the moving performance. (無人不被這場動人演出所感動。)

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  SAY WHAT? 說說看

  the man in the street 普羅大眾 When you talk about the man in the street, you are referring to ordinary people, and not any particular individual. For example: “The government was keen to pass the new law, but it was worried about how the man in the street would react,” or “Many people were upset that so much money was being spent on a theater company. After all, what good is that to the man in the street?” 當你說到「the man in the street」時，你指的是普羅大眾，而非任何特定的個體。 例如：「政府亟欲通過這項新法案，卻又擔心市井小民會有什麼反應」，或是「很多人對花這麼多錢搞劇團感到相當不悅，畢竟，那對一般人來說有什麼好處呢？」

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  OUT LOUD 對話練習

  Kevin: Will you be able to make it to the performance tomorrow night? Graham: Why? What’s happening? Kevin: I’m going to be in the university theater group’s production of Hamlet. Graham: Sounds cool. Which part are you playing? Kevin: I’m going to be Hamlet. I’m quite nervous, to tell you the truth. Graham: Don’t worry. And remember...break a leg! 凱文：你明天晚上可以來看表演嗎？ 葛拉漢：為什麼這樣問？怎麼啦？ 凱文：我會參加大學劇團製作的「哈姆雷特」演出。 葛拉漢：聽起來很酷。你演哪個角色？ 凱文：我要演哈姆雷特。老實說，我好緊張喔。 葛拉漢：別擔心，記住…祝你好運！ break a leg　祝你好運 Break a leg is an expression used in the theater to mean “good luck.” Although there are many theories about where it came from, nobody is entirely sure about its origin. 在劇場裡會用「break a leg」來表示「good luck」，雖然關於這個說法的來源有很多臆測，但沒人敢確定它的起源為何。
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