歌剧《白毛女》与“讲故事的人”

The White-haired Girl and the Storytelling

民间故事"白毛女"与歌剧《白毛女》的流传史,在特定的历史时空下,可以与本雅明"讲故事的人"的理论视野发生关联。以歌剧形式表现的《白毛女》,聚合了集体经验与"实用关怀"的特征,延续了故事的生命,并在文艺传统的形式层面上被赋予"膜拜价值"。歌剧《白毛女》的情节线索、故事单元,在不同的感知方式和距离中,构成了文本意涵的丰富阐释空间,并在时代征候与社会功能的引入之下,呈现为意识形态信仰的另一种"膜拜价值"。形式与内容相统一的《白毛女》歌剧因此映现出独特的艺术"光晕"。

The spreading history of The White-haired Girl from folk tales form to the opera form, against a specific background, can be associated with the storytelling as a theoretical vision from Benjamin. The opera form was chosen to tell the story of the White-haired Girl, gathered features of collective experiences and practical solicitude, and extended the life of story, also be given the cult value in traditional culture. The plot lines and story units of The White-haired Girl, in a different method and distance of perception, formed a space of texts expounding, and therefore presented as another cult value in terms of of ideological belief on symptoms of the times and at ththe social function level,. The principle of integrating contend and formgave the White-haired Girl a unique artistic aura.