“是想在舞台上建一座长城吗?”

"Does he want to build the Great Wall on stage?"

2006年圣诞前夕，美国纽约大都会歌剧院的五个拱门柱前悬挂着两幅巨大海报：一幅是莫扎特歌剧《魔笛》，一幅便是谭盾歌剧《秦始皇》。

The final dress rehearsal for The First Emperor took place at the Metropolitan Opcra on Deccmber 18,This occasion marks the final preparation after almost a decade of planning and creation.The curtain rose to reveal the steps of the Great Wall made of construction blocks 20 meters deep where all of the action takes place,Ropes suspending these blocks dominated the stage,accentuating the sense of Chinese landscape.The staging of The First Emperor has a clean effect,but in the end ,there was a lack of ＂aggression＂in the design,revealing perhaps too conservative a conception,In relation to the sense of stage,perhaps the set designer only managed to accomplish a sense of ＂design＂But what happened to the stage space？Because of the lack of movable apace,the director could only exercise his imagination above and below those blocks for more than three hours How can this satisfy an audicnce？