Singing Studies On The Aria "Rest In The Light"

The small theater opera "Farewell to Cambridge" exists with fewer characters,fewer scene props,and relying on small chamber bands.It created a new form of Chinese opera and attracted a large number of audiences and music lovers.The attention of music educators.This play has won the "Third National Opera Observation Performance" Special Award and Excellent Composition Award,and has been performed in major universities and concert halls many times.It has maintained the popularity of the work for 20 years,whether in musical or dramatic.The above is one of the models of contemporary Chinese opera art.This article will Taking the soprano aria in Act Seven "Farewell Cambridge" as the main research object,this song is the emotional explosion point of the heroine in the whole play.This article first briefly describes the creative background and main characters of the opera,and then fully excavates the tragic connotation of the aria "Rest In the Light" to improve the appreciation and analysis of the work,as well as the emotional analysis of the aria "Rest In the Light" And the discussion of singing processing,so that the singer has a better grasp of the mood of the work,and has a certain reference significance for the second creation.This article includes three parts: introduction,body and conclusion.The main text is the main content of the article,with three sections in total.The first section understands the general situation of the small theater opera "Farewell Cambridge" by consulting the information,introduces the new form of the small theater opera,and briefly describes the creative background,plot and character analysis of the opera.The second section analyzes the tragic expression of the work from the background,lyrics and musical characteristics of the scene of“Rest In the Light".The third section combines my own singing experience to analyze the works from the aspects of breath,emotional performance,timbre and processing in singing.Experience the sadness of the work from the singing,and further interpret the protagonist’s inner voice.