最近在音乐书架上看到一本装帧十分漂亮的新书,这就是由上海文艺出版社出版的《西欧十大名歌剧欣赏》。在西方,观赏歌剧演出历来是一项极为高尚的活动,人们把上剧院看歌剧视为过节一般,有人比喻在歌剧院门口观看入场观众是“看时装表演”。许多大型歌剧的上演往往都是轰动一时的新闻。相比之下,在中国,爱好歌剧的人还比较少,其原因之一,大概是普遍地对有关歌剧的知识了解得太少。 Recently, I saw a very beautiful new book in the music shelf, which is “The Top Ten Famous Western Opera Appreciation” published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. In the west, watching opera performances has always been an extremely noble activity. People regard the opera in the theater as a holiday. Some people like to see the audience at the opera house watching the “fashion show.” Many large-scale opera staged often sensational news. In contrast, one of the reasons why opera lovers are still relatively small in China is probably generally poorly understood about opera.