Phantom, Opera, and Dorian Gray

What Is Camposition? III

Phantom, Opera, and Dorian Gray


2017-04-29 Sat 14:30National Recital Hall400Buy
YUAN-PU CHIAO, lecturer
GRACE LIN, soprano
I-CHING LI, violin
CHAO-HUI CHEN, piano

ROBERT SCHUMANN:
'Eintritt' from Waldszenen
'Vogel als Prophet' from Waldszenen
RICHARD WAGNER:
'Einsam in trüben Tagen' from Lohengrin
'Allmächt'ge Jungfrau, hör mein Flehen!' from Tannhäuser
FREDERIC CHOPIN: Nocturne, op. 37, No. 2
CHARLES GOUNOD:
'Je voudrais bien savoir ... Il était roi de Thulé…' from Faust
'O Dieu! que de bijoux... Ah! je ris de me voir' from Faust
PABLO DE SARASATE: Nouvelle fantaisie sur 'Faust'

The canonic Irish writer Oscar Wilde was so brilliant that his stories, plays, poetry, and epigrams are known by all. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is full of suspense, with beautiful sentences interwoven with twists and turns, and has fascinated countless readers. As also a thriller, the French writer, Gaston Leroux’s Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, which has languages of journalism and detective fiction, is a story staged in the Opéra de Paris. The story becomes the inspiration not only for the film The Phantom Lover, but for the best-selling musical The Phantom of the Opera and more films and drama works. In both novels quite many music works are mentioned, and the latter is even inseparable from the opera stage. What are the authors’ intentions to do so? And do the music works correspond to the plots? Let’s find out the answers to the questions in the concert hall, and unriddle the mysteries in the music and novels!