芝加哥新版《后宫诱逃》:莫扎特辉煌唱段才是真金白银

Chicago Lyric Opera's new Abduction:It's the glorious Mozart singing that matters

在眼下敏感的国际政治气候下，从一个在士耳其后宫里被一股脑塞进篮子的小女仆身上榨取廉价的笑料似乎不是什么明智之举。当然，这只是个小细节，不过可以让你窥见一些芝加哥歌剧院2008-09演出季闭幕剧目新版《后宫诱逃》背后的模糊思维。如今，想要上演这部歌剧就得同时把握好其在音乐方面苛刻艰深的要求和在剧本上的不连贯性。芝加哥歌剧院的新版演出即使算不上最理想，至少它在视觉上众多令人享受的场景和对莫扎特音乐的高度专业化诠释还是值得肯定的。

In today's sensitive international political climate,it may not be the wisest thing to milk cheap laughs from a slave girl being stuffed head first into a basket in a Turkish harem.A minor detail,to be sure,but it tells you something about the fuzzy thinking behind the new production of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio that closed the Chicago Lyric Opera's 2008-09 season.The first performance boasted a strong cast that rose above the admixture of farcical shtick and would-be pathos that was Chas Rader-Shieber's staging.