京剧和西方音乐剧对比

Introduction

Peking Opera is the quintessence of Chinese culture, is one of the important national opera popular in China. So far, Peking Opera has 200 years history. In the 55th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty(1790), the four big Huiban opera Troupes entered the capital and combined with Kunqu opera, Yiyang opera, Hanju opera and Luantan in Beijing's thearetical circle of the time. Transferred from the emblem, the Han have been transferred to the evolution of opera, has experienced countless times between changes. Similar with the development of the Peking opera, Western musical is also the reflection of the lives of the people, namely in the form of song and dance to play story. The initially by the comic opera and light opera or operetta) evolved early called "musical comedy", later referred to as the "musical" is the 19th century originated in the late British pattern vectors, by dialogue and singing combination performance form of drama. Drama, music, dance and musical fusion is equal to a furnace, humorous appealand comedy. In this essay, it first introduces the history of Peking Opera and the Western musical, followed by table comparison in performances and music characteristics of difference, then elaborately explain the difference from the aspects of performance and musical feature. Finally, the paper summarizes the similarities and differences of Peking Opera and the Western musical.

Contrast table

Peking opera Western musical

performance The virtual nature of the stage

performance

Real effect Procedural nature Flexibility

Simple Large-scale production Direct communication Indirect communication

Musical features A variety of accents, plate can

be used repeatedly

Creating music according to

the script and the composer's

style

Jinghu, moonguitar, Beijing

urheen, instrument category is

single

musical instruments, timbre,

volume and tone is more

abundant

Classical musical instrument Modern Acoustics

The singing is mainly Pihuang Music diversity

Elaboration

Peking opera is about the virtual nature of the stage performance. Stage the scene changes, field and field of space-time conversion and manipulation of the main characters in the play for the end, such as Peking Opera "havoc in heaven," a drama, Erlang rate generals will catch up with the Monkey King the stage is the temple, behind a turn in the play, the stage is the mountain of flowers and fruit, no Material object will appear on the stage. On the stage of Peking opera either performance，stage props or other facilities, what they emphasized is a symbolic, give audiences the room of imagine. But the Western musicals is different, what he insists is a real effect, stage props and performances and characters is lifelike. Such as the musical Cats, the story takes place in a garbage processing field. All the garbage is elaborately designed according to the