The Research On The Tragic Meaning Of The Image Of Zi Jun And The Singing Artistic Processing Of Main Arias

The opera regret for the past which is adapted from a novel of the same namewritten by Lu Xun (1881September25-October19,1936), is not only a significantmasterpiece in national opera history, bust also the first lyric opera in china.Accomplished in1925, The opera regret for the past was written by Wang Quan andthe composer was Shi GuangNan who is a Chinese musician. Drawing lessons fromwestern opera creation boldly, regret for the past has an epoch-making significance, ithas an extensive use of recitative, aria, trio, choral and other vocal music genre, whichis full of flavor of the times and lyricism.First on the whole, this thesis is to analyze the relevant backgrounds of the noveland the opera, Regret for the Past, in details. As for the aspect of shaping thecharacters, the tragic meaning of Zi Jun is studied and discussed in depth. As for theaspect of the tragic image Zi Jun defined by the music, some important main arias arechosen to be discussed from the story modes, song analysis and singing techniques inthe arias. This thesis is intended to seize the artistic image of Zi Jun both from themicroscopic view and from the macroscopic view in order to provide the valuablereference basis for expressing the image of Zi Jun more perfectly.