2016114有关昆曲的英语原著和英译本的词汇级别之九.doc

有关昆曲的英语原著和英译本的词汇级别之九有关昆曲的英语原著和英译本的词汇级别之九 张铁城张铁城 2016 11 4 发送发送 No 12 第十一章第十一章 在跨文化交际中探索运用真实英语在跨文化交际中探索运用真实英语 之二之二 有关青春版有关青春版 牡丹亭牡丹亭 演出的文章演出的文章 No 12DX10 请试着找一下 发现 请试着找一下 发现 这篇这篇网上有关网上有关 青春版牡丹亭青春版牡丹亭 的评论与介绍的评论与介绍里面的里面的 英语词汇总量英语词汇总量 1 326 个个 其中 其中 一级词汇一级词汇 877 个 占个 占 66 13 10 A Refined Art By Michael Zwiebach 2006 Michael Zwiebach all rights reserved A teacher can easily forget what it s like for a student to encounter a classical art such as opera for the first time It s an experience that can be overwhelming and bewildering The Cal Performances presentation of The Peony Pavilion seen on two of the three days Friday and Sunday of the nine hour series at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley put me precisely in that neophyte position I will not have to try to remember what it feels like to be overwhelmed for a long time The beauty of this production by the Suzhou Kun Opera Theatre of Jiangsu is that you are enveloped in a profusion of meticulously coordinated details rather than bludgeoned by size and spectacle Peony Pavilion s success rests on the universal foundation of all great classic theater a great story told by a master storyteller Written in 1598 Tang Xianzu elaborated a story with obvious folktale roots into a vivid fresco involving several subplots and characters from all classes of Chinese society Tang s breadth of vision and sense of structure was truly Shakespearean Reduced to bare essentials Peony is about a governor s daughter Du Liniang who falls asleep in a garden and meets the man of her dreams In her dream they make love in the garden s peony pavilion Upon waking Du Liniang tries to recall the traces of the dream but her search for the young man is fruitless She pines and wastes away But before she dies she paints her portrait and inscribes it with a poem to her unknown lover and requests that it be hidden next to her grave under the garden s plum tree After her death the judge of hell is impressed by her beauty and her story and he orders her release Meanwhile Du Liniang s betrothed the scholar Liu Mengmei is on his way to take civil service exams in the capital He stops by Du Liniang s shrine recovers the portrait and discovers that his dream girl is now wandering about as a ghost This condition does not prevent the two from making refined love apparently protecting the girl s virginity No don t try this at home Liu Mengmei finally decides to open the grave and with the help of the Flower God Du Liniang s soul returns to her body Reunited in the flesh they get married and look forward to a happy ending although they have a lot of explaining to do along the way A love story social commentary comic twists Tang used this story to criticize Confucian orthodoxy In the play he insists that human passions including sexuality shape human relations and destinies rather than rationality and ideas of social propriety And so rather than a lover s tragedy la Romeo and Juliet Tang s opera moves consistently and powerfully into social comedy The ending is sentimental and romantic as the chorus sings Do not break vows with longing hearts On the thrice born path of destiny to the pavilion of peonies But it is also terribly funny Liu Mengmei seeks out his father in law Du Bao who thinks his daughter to be dead and naturally finds it difficult to believe that she could have a husband Liu Mengmei expects the older man to believe him because he knows himself to be honest So he blurts out his whole incredible tale leading Du Bao to conclude that the young man is one egg roll short of a combination plate The conflict over which reality is well reality pervades the entire opera and ties together all the major characters and themes The comic pinnacle is reached when in a trial before the Emperor Du Bao refuses to believe his own eyes and insists that his daughter must be a ghost Du Bao frets over Confucian matters of etiquette Liu Mengmei s self assurance seems to him like an upstart s arrogance And what about his position as father Doesn t he have to give his consent to his daughter s wedding How could the lovers have observed all the correct marriage ceremonies with both sets of parents absent Eventually Du Bao bends before the Emperor s vindication of the lovers And ultimately his acquiescence comes out of love for his resurrected daughter which we see in their delayed but emotional reunion As usual in classic comedy love conquers all In beautiful translation Pai Hsien yung s adaptation of the 55 scenes and 20 hours of The Peony Pavilion which reduced the original show by more than half got to the heart of the matter He kept the main story going while not sacrificing the richness of incident and character that make the piece so vibrant Lindy Li Mark s easy to follow economical translation projected on side screens kept the audience in the loop Pai subtitled his adaptation the Young Lovers Edition in reference to his major creative decision to cast age appropriate actors in the main roles And indeed Shen Feng Ying as Du Liniang and Yu Jiu Lin as the scholar Liu are extremely good looking and believable But once you ve seen what the actors are required to do in this opera you can understand why casting them was such a leap of faith Their achievement was nothing short of astonishing Actors Yu Jiu Lin and Shen Feng Ying To begin with there were the costume sleeves Both leads had sleeves that were two feet longer than their arms When let down the sleeves functioned as an expressive extension For example the lovers embraces were accomplished by draping the sleeves around each other which preserved a dancelike grace Everyone who has been on stage knows that choreographing a kiss is a messy business This technque prevented what might have been a visually uninteresting clinch At another point Shen used her sleeve to wipe a tear but not content with that she then flicked it away in a single movement Here s the incredible part When Shen and Yu needed to use their hands they rolled up their sleeves with a few discreet wrist motions so that the sleeves became ordinary cuffs on their gowns It was like a magic trick Arresting choreography unusual sounds The opera employs a wealth of distinct hand and head gestures each conventionally associated with conversation and emotion These had to be rendered with the same precision and naturalness as the sleeve gestures even as the rest of the actor s body was in motion If Shen was going to make an important cross first she would lean her body in the direction she was going to create a picture of visual momentum before moving her feet In the middle of the first evening s performance when Shen delivered Du Liniang s searching monologue she spent the better part of 15 minutes in motion Oh and she was singing the entire time There was also a stylistic continuum between speech and song with several gradations depending on the character s social class In the beginning it was difficult to adjust to Yu s speech because he frequently employed falsetto But we were quickly caught up in his forceful characterization Shen Yu and the entire cast seamlessly combined the movement and vocal aspects of their roles The signature sound of Chinese opera singing is extraordinarily difficult to produce as with all classical singing Like Handel s arias the songs of The Peony Pavilion often lingered for a long time over a single textual phrase The singer s breath control had to be perfect To help a flute accompanied all the vocal lines Strengthened by Zhou Youliang s sumptuous orchestration the lyricism of the major arias was beautifully realized Once I adjusted to the vocal style I was able to attend to the shifting emotional character of the music By the third night as Pai had promised I didn t want it to end Michael Zwiebach holds a Ph D in music history from UC Berkeley 2006 Michael Zwiebach all rights reserved OPERA REVIEW Suzhou Kun Opera Theatre of Jiangsu The Peony Pavilion September 15 and 17 2006 No 12DX11 请试着找一下 发现 请试着找一下 发现 这篇这篇网上有关网上有关 青春版牡丹亭青春版牡丹亭 的评论与介绍的评论与介绍里面的里面的 英语词汇总量英语词汇总量 720 个个 其中 其中 一级词汇一级词汇 418 个 占个 占 58 05 11 Sumptuous Pavilion brooks cultural divide By ERIC MARCHESE Published Sept 24 2006 Updated Aug 21 2013 1 17 p m Shen Fengying portrays the lonely sheltered girl Du Liniang who dies of a broken heart after falling in love in a dream THE PEONY PAVILION When Sept 29 Sept 30 Where Irvine Barclay Theatre Next The production moves to UCLA Live Fifth International Theatre Festival Royce Hall UCLA Los Angeles When Friday through Oct 1 8 p m Friday Saturday 7 p m Sunday How much 30 65 126 or 175 for three night series Length 3 hours 20 minutes Suitability Some mild sexual references Call 310 825 2101 or UCLALive org Love stories come in all shapes and sizes and in The Peony Pavilion we have a tale of love and resurrection so epic in scale it must be broken up into three nights to be performed Written by 16th century Chinese scholar Tang Xianzu The Peony Pavilion exemplifies Chinese kun opera an art form combining literature music dance and drama Renowned Chinese novelist Kenneth Pai s new adaptation The Young Lovers Edition is now enjoying a new production courtesy of the Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater company of Jiangsu province With Pai himself as general producer the behemoth U S tour visiting the University of California system made a stop at the Irvine Barclay Theatre this past weekend treating local audiences to a production rarely performed outside of China With each Book or evening broken into nine scenes each averaging 20 minutes the entire production surpasses nine hours While it can safely be said that only fans of the art form in general and of this particular example of it in particular are likely to partake of the work in its entirety it can also be said that even a single evening offers a classic example of a unique blending of creative disciplines with no true Western equivalent Watching Book I The Dream of Love your reviewer can attest to the intriguing cultural education of the experience as well as to the seductively romantic qualities of a tale often compared to Romeo and Juliet The basic story is that of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei two lovers caught forever in the bloom of their eternal youth Each dreams of meeting the other in the lovely pavilion of peonies in a beautiful garden on the property of Liniang s father In Book I the lonely sheltered Liniang age 16 wonders if handsome scholar Mengmei will ever appear to her Saddened that he was only a dream she eventually dies of a broken heart reappearing in flowing red silk red being the color of rebirth this ending sets up Books II and III The vocal style of kun is melodic and singsong yet more staccato than European opera Xianzu paints his poetic text in broad fairy tale like strokes Pai s new version making the work accessible to modern audiences Xianzu s music well directed by arranger orchestrator and conductor Zhou Youliang is lovely and exotic using Oriental instruments such as the transverse flute Zheng zither and zhonghu Even a single evening s worth of this sumptuous staging offers beauty splendor and pageantry yet ta