The Preliminary Study About Tragic Characters Of Gilda Within Rigoletto

Rigoletto was one the most representative works of composer Verdi which finished in his middle writing career, and also considered as a crucial turning point in his writing career. From the begining of Rigoletto, Verdi was more mature on the characterization about the personalities, psychological and so on of opera characters; more dramatic on the construction of the opera plot and the conflicts between the opera characters; More widely in terms of subject matter, and more profound on the theme, emotion and philosophical of the opera.Discusses the problems about the opera, the character image is the core proposition. The success of an opera depends on the opera characters characterization. Characters, therefore, explored in the opera, especially the tragic characters characterization has certain practical and theoretical significance, and also are the main content of this article will investigating. Therefore, this article through the comparative analysis, psychological analysis, music-text analysis, social and historical analysis and aesthetic analysis that a series of means to explore the characters of Gilda's tragic image, then based on those to thinking of Gilda tragedy image. The full text is divided into four parts.The first part through the comparison of opera with the original, so as to fully master the character image of Gilda, and then compares their similarities and differences. The second part mainly from two aspects of subjective and objective to discuss the reason of Gilda's tragic characters; The third part mainly through the music-text analysis, analysis of how the composer to shape Gilda's tragic characters. Based on the above, the fourth part to explore my enlightenment and thinking that the characters bring to this study.Through the study of this article, I thinks that:Gilda was shaped as a girl with good image, but she still has personality weakness that led her to destroy; Gilda is worthy of our sympathy, but also have a side be criticized; The last destruction of gilda is considered as character tragedy, and also as a social tragedy.