巴黎国家歌剧院新版《阿依达》:凸显文化冲突引争议

A new Aida lands in the middle of France’s culture wars

近日,由女高音桑德拉·拉德万诺夫斯基(Sondra Radvanovsky)主演的《阿依达》在巴黎引发热议——这部作品使得女高音在角色塑造上又达到了新的高度。同时,导演乐天·德·比尔(Lotte de Beer)也让这部作品焕发了新的生命。制作由米歇尔·马里奥蒂(Michele Mariotti)执棒巴黎国家歌剧院献演,在巴士底歌剧院舞台上的现场演出通过网络进行直播。

Lotte de Beer’s new production of Aida,which examines the work’s colonial legacy,opened after the far right accused the Paris Opera of"antiracism gone mad."The development of de Beer’s staging came amid a company labor dispute,quickly followed by a full pandemic shutdown and an earlier-than-expected change in the company’s leadership.De Beer was working with multiple casts at once,including star singers like the tenor Jonas Kaufmann,whose busy schedules made them less than ideally available for rehearsals.And the production had to be continually adapted to coronavirus restrictions.