Shape The Image, With Song

Musical performance is a creative activity, first of all, the music performer should reflect the creative achievements (compositions) as a basis, and transmit correctly and recur the purpose of the composers as basic principle. Meanwhile, as a second creation performer, they should make aesthetic re-creation based on the original creation. Different performers have different artistic accomplishment, technological condition, aesthetic pursuit and so on, which will lead to the differences of music performing handling means and subtle emotional representation, therefore, the created musical image and the aesthetic impression are also different.This paper regards the three arias sung by Violetta, who was the heroine of La Traviata, as its creative text, which written by Italian composer Verdi. Analyzing the different technological handling and artistic expressions of the arias, made by Sutherland, Callas, Gheorghiu, Stratas, the author try to show the differences of Violetta's images these singers created, and to reveal the relevant aesthetic problems and the important status of recreated musical performance in the music practice activities...