The Artistic Style And Singing Practice Of The Aria “Heaven To Open Your Eyes” Of The Opera Yimeng Mountain

The national opera Yimeng mountain is created based on the true history happened in Yimeng mountain base area of Shandong province during the Anti-Japanese War.The opera mainly tells about the life and death story of people and armymen,revealing the Yimen spirit of the civil-military relations like fish to water."Heaven to open your eyes" is an aria sang by Haitang in the fifth scene of the national opera Yimenmountain.The composer Luankaijoins the structure ofthe opera board cavity and the Lunan flower drum tune in the whole aria.Through the changes of rhythm,tone,melody and other musical techniques,this aria deeply describes the grief of the leading role Haitang who lost his son because of protecting the daughter of the eighth route army.This paper mainly studies the aria "Heaven to open your eyes" of the opera Yimeng mountain in the aspects of artistic characteristics,music characteristics and singing art.In terms of artistic characteristics,the aria takes the red historical revolution as the background and a righteous,strong,brave and kind mother role of Haitang at the period of Anti-Japanese War is depicted through music.In terms of music characteristics,the composer Luankai joins the Lunan flower drum tune in the whole aria,making the song not only have the dramatic tension of modern opera but also have the unique regional characteristics of Shandong.And in the art of singing,the first thing needs to be understood is that the selected song is gradually unfolded based on the helplessness and grief of Haitang.Consequently,the author's biggest experience for this song is that when singing you have to bring personal emotions into the background of the Anti-Japanese War at that time,in order to more accurately show the mood of heroine Haitang who lost her beloved son's.The selected aria "Heaven to open your eyes" has high research and study value.Thecomposerjoins the characteristics of drama and local musical elements into the whole aria,which enables the scholars to explore and discover more local Chinese culture when studying this aria.Because the spans of the selected aria "Heaven to open your eyes" are large and the character's inner emotions are rich,we need to improve our singing level and appreciation ability for art in order to completely deduce the whole aria.Therefore,it is of great significance for vocal performers to study this aria.