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次の英交を読んで, 後の設問に符えよ。
J Nor long ago, Bernard Levin wrote a piece in which he confessed,|a touch gleefulli,
amd asleep。 and
ra he loved. but haller ieft him cok
artificial This、 coming frOm a
art forms more artifcial than
at he did not care for balet_ Ope
③ his he put dowm io the fact that he found it
jover of opera. 1 found very strange。 There can be few
。 opera. in yhich the characters sing instead oC speak_ repeat things rathermore often an還識
we do in fe in a language which the audience scldom understands and play out a Stor7/
hich bas to be learnt beforehand if one j8 ー
Twish TIiked opera. Treally do。 1have made every efforr Well quite a 知w efOrGS エ
once heard Rossins TLa Cenerentola' on Radio 3 and enjoyed it a lo fnding it very fanny,
ie despite not ( ⑮ ) the story。 There was a producton ( ⑥ ) in London a few months,
Jater, so Iwent to see it一 and sat stonyaced throughout the entiro evening The onhy
*Pit Tcan remember now was where a messenger yas being dispatched fronu court
TgoTgoF he sang
-Then go・sang is master
ga TgoTago
・Then go, then go sang the chorus
famigi 'e replk
ttook him about tyo minutes to go. This 1 found quite fanny though 1 dont think
④ it was meant to be:
る Butis notthis sort of arGificiality that disturbs me. The reason 1 dont hike opera 5
quite simply that 1 dont like the way they sing 環hnd the lassical convention of singtng
whetherin opera or "ieder, so mannered, so alien andL T'snppose so unnatural that it NIS
To become a good opera singer you have to gO through years
of training in which the voice acquires a "timbre as artificial in its own way as the acting
2s in Noh plays or the dialogue in "situation comedies. Tf you like it is great If you dont
@ (area closed プョンjsンartンwhole oo you.
T havent discussed this with Bernard Levin for the simple reason that T haVe_neVer
met him but I would imagine that there are sounds which he finds equalhy alien 一 the
sound of the saxophone in jazz, perhaps or of the electic blues guitar, sounds which are
o meat and dripk to me. IS a question of personal taste, perhaps of some kind of personal
-chemish- Unfortunately for me。 there are some composers who wrote the kind
Tjove but who decided to specialise in vocal music so ⑤ most of their output is o8
me
*Bernard Levin : イギリス人ジャーナリスト (1928.2004)
"bit : 「(劇, 映画などの) 一場面(部分」
"jieder :「リート : ドイツ歌曲] 単数形は lied。
"situation comedy : 「(テレビ・ラジオの)
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