普契尼及其歌剧《蝴蝶夫人》的简析

A Brief Analysis of Puccini and His Opera "Madame Butterfly"

吉亚卡默.普契尼(1858年6月22日-1924年11月29日)是继威尔第之后意大利最为伟大的歌剧作曲家,他采用一些老式规则中决不允许的各种和弦的奇怪结合使歌剧听起来更为震撼,一生创作12部经典的歌剧。第一部歌剧为《群妖围舞》,随后的《马侬.莱斯科》、《波西米亚人》、《蝴蝶夫人》、《图兰朵》等等20世纪伟大的歌剧作曲家普契尼及其歌剧《蝴蝶夫人》的简介与分析都成为一部又一部的经典流传至今。而以亚洲日本长崎为背景的《蝴蝶夫人》更是不朽中的经典。本文结合普契尼的歌剧创作特点以《蝴蝶夫人》为例进行了介绍与分析,能较为直观的了解把握普契尼的歌剧特点。

Giacamo Puccini ( June 22,1858- November 29,1924) is the greatest Italian opera composer after Verdi. He used some strange combinations of chords which were never allowed in the old rules to make the opera sound more impressive,and he wrote 12 classic operas in his life.The first opera is "Dancing around the Heroes",followed by "Manon Lesco","La bachema","Madame Butterfly","Turandot" and so on which all become classics one after another."Madame Butterfly",set in Nagasaki,Japan,Asia,is specially an immortal classic.Combining the creative characteristics of Puccini's operas,this paper takes Madame Butterfly as an example to make an introduction and analysis,so as to understand and grasp Puccini's opera characteristics more profoundly.