Research On Emotional Expression In Opera "Qinsheng Are You Alright"

Operas are special dramas which use singing and musical performance to explain and express the trend of the plot.The performance of opera in tone and stage is different from other musical works.The national opera "Canal Ballad" is the first original national opera in the national grand theater of China.It takes the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal,which is one of the four major projects in ancient China,as its theme.It combines the traditional national drama creation and western stage performance art,reflecting the creativity and nationality of national operas in the new era.This paper takes the heroine Shui Honglian's main verse "Qin Sheng are you alright" as the research object and discusses the main emotional expression of the work from the melody,lyrics,performance,character image and other aspects of the aria.The research results have some guiding significance for the theoretical research and stage practice of national opera performance in the new era.