寻找李白的踪迹

Walking in Li Bai's footsteps

编剧兼翻译家廖端丽想象《诗人李白》的写作时,好比一位优雅的芭蕾舞蹈家在翩翩起舞。作曲家郭文景则认为李白是"唐朝莫扎特"。两人合作的《诗人李白》本月于科罗拉多州丹佛的中央城市歌剧院(Central City Opera)首演,随后将于10月亮相于北京国际音乐节及上海国际艺术节。在美国纽约长居超过30个年头、刚回归香港的编剧家与四川出生、现居北京的作曲家,他们两位对李白的观点各异。这位中国文化历史中的大人物,真的具有多方面的个性。《诗人李白》歌剧的的两位创作者讨论如何把不一样的看法融合起来,创作一套崭新的歌剧。

For the librettist and translator Diana Liao.Li Bai wrote like a graceful ballerina.For composer Guo Wenjing,he was ＂the Mozart of the Tang Dynasty＂.Poet Li Bai with music by Guo and libretto by Liao,opens this month at Central City Opera in Denver Colorado and later comes to the Beijing Music Festival this October ,Even though the librettist,who recently returned to her native Hong Kong after more that three decades in New York.has a much different conception of China＇s most famous poet than the Sichuan-born,Beijing-based composer,Li Bai remains large,and contains multitudes.The two creators discuss bringing their different conceptions together in one opera.