The Tragic Image-Building Of Ciociosan In Opera Butterfly Produced By Puccini

Image-Building is not only a fundamental and nuclear proposition in opera creation, but also a key factor to determine the success of an opera works. The technique of heroine image-building is quite a representative in the opera creations of Puccini, his works shows a remarkable significance in the history of opera. This thesis analyzes on Ciociosan ,a character in Puccini's opera Butterfly, expect to conclude the deep cause of Ciociosan's tragic fortune, generalize the technique of opera music Puccini used for building the heroine's image completely and particularly, for the purpose of providing a certain psychological way and the singing melody for the actress to act the role of Ciociosan. There are three sections in the body of the thesis excluding the preface and epilogue. The main contents are as follow.1. The creation background of the opera Butterfly. This section mainly discusses on three parts, the development of Italia opera in the 19 century, Puccini's inheritance and development of Italia opera, the material selection and creation procedure of Butterfly, in order to provide essential preparation for the researches of below.2. The analysis on the image of Ciociosan. The article analyzes the tragic character Ciociosan in terms of opera text, it starts with the heroine's social background, observes her tragedy in the sight of her growing background and cultural environment, and focus on the different characters Ciociosan showed with the gradual development of the story, expect to grasp the skeleton of her changed thinking, dig out the deeper cause behind the change, and reveals her tragic destiny, in order to make this artistic image become more vivid, true and have a deeper social significance.3.The music technique of Puccini used to build the tragic image of Ciociosan. This section takes the changing character of Ciociosan as a key clue, selects and analyzes the aria and duetto which set in the key place of this opera, shows a complete process of Ciociosan's tragic image.4. Puccini's singing style grasping on opera. In this section, it starts in terms of a singer to describe the singing style of Puccini's opera which makes Ciociosan show vividly on the opera stage from the opera text.