【單曲欣賞】聖-桑：The Yellow Princess Overture

【單曲欣賞】聖-桑：The Yellow Princess Overture

Van Gogh，1887

La princesse jaune (The Yellow Princess) is an opéra comique in one act and five scenes by composer Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Louis Gallet. The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart Theatre) in Paris on 12 June 1872.
Like many French artists at this time, Saint-Saëns was influenced by the Japonism movement in Paris. He appealed to this public taste by choosing a story about a Japanese princess, although it is set in the Netherlands. The music is characterized by a "light and brisk" quality that uses pentatonic harmony to evoke an "oriental" sound. The story follows Kornélis, a student who is fascinated by all things Japanese, and his cousin Léna, who is in love with Kornélis. Kornélis, however, is too obsessed with his portrait of Ming, a Japanese girl, to notice his cousin's affections for him. In a fantastical dream caused by a potion, Kornélis is transported to Japan. At first enthralled, he eventually becomes disillusioned as he comes to the realization that he is in love with Léna.

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• 濃濃的東洋風情的畫作，聖桑的這部作品也流露出西方人眼中東方的神秘，蒼遂，悠遠。。 -小得- ♀ (82 bytes) () 07/20/2013 postreply 16:33:36

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• 典雅，流暢又不失浪漫，謝謝塵埃大師分享聖桑經典作品和音樂故事。 -片片紅葉- ♀ (63 bytes) () 07/21/2013 postreply 12:15:16

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