当人类情感误入歧途时——英国皇家歌剧院歌剧《唐璜》和《奥赛罗》观后

When human emotions go astray——On ROH’s Don Giovanni and Otello

人类情感的复杂和神秘难以解释。当艺术作品中一些人物表现出反常情绪,甚至是出格的极端行为时,人们会不解、困惑、恐惧、震惊或悲哀。出色的艺术手段帮助我们理解作品中人物的行为,并加深对人性的了解,而这种感受是美好和令人回味的。笔者愿在此与读者分享观看两部经典歌剧后的一些感想。

The Royal Opera House,Covent Garden has revived for the third time director Kasper Holten’s visually stunning 2014 production of Don Giovanni,this time featuring the vocal splendor of basses Erwin Schrott and Roberto Tagliavini and magnificent singing from sopranos Malin Bystrom and Myrto Papatanasiu.Compared to Don Giovanni’s hugely imaginative designs and use of lighting,Keith Warner’s 2017 production of Verdi’s Otello is a humorless parody of art deco design.Tar-colored towers hold its personages in a chokehold,escorting them onstage with sliding trays resembling CD player disc drives.