纽约暑期歌剧舞台充满童趣

The opera stage of New York in summer is for kids

不知是不是和暑假开始了有关,纽约接连上演两出歌剧都带有童话色彩：莫扎特的《魔笛》和雅纳切克（Leos Janacek）的《狡猾的小狐狸》（TheCunning Little Vixen）。

OUTLINE/Call it coincidence,but two opera with fairy-tale themes landed in New York within a short period of time.This summer's Lincoln Center Festival presented Peter Brook's A Magic Flute.Using only a piano,seven singers,two actors and dozens of bamboos,Brook retold the Mozart opera in a brisk 100 minutes.The director didn't really re-interpret the famous tale, he only simplified the narrative.A more satisfying production is at the season finale of the New York Philharmonic-Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen. Director Doug Fitch transformed the Avery Fisher Hall stage into a Czech forest,where all kinds of insects and animals,played by members of the Metropolitan Children's Chorus,prance around the stage.Alan Gilbert did a great service to New York by presenting this rarely-seen opera.