Jack的小留学生日记 l 隔离生活很煎熬，还好我有歌剧陪伴

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迄今为止，我已经在家隔离两个礼拜了，感觉就像过了两年一样。尽管每天生活节奏还是很快，但终归是有点漫长。这段时间，我一直靠着歌剧在打发时间。歌剧带给了我很多音乐灵感。回想病毒流行前的正常生活，我们有那么多去剧院现场欣赏表演的机会，真是怀念那些时光！

虽然英国并非欧洲歌剧与音乐文化最发达的国家，尤其与奥地利这些有浓郁歌剧历史的国家相比，但是在很多英国城市里，人们仍然有大量的机会去观看表演。在伦敦，曼彻斯特，还有利物浦这些大城市，都有很著名的歌剧院。

我住在布里斯托，在这里，人们经常会去市中心的Hippodrome（布里斯托最著名的剧院）观看各种音乐剧、戏剧、歌剧。每年有三到四个月的时间，这里会上演最新的戏剧表演。对于布里斯托这样相对较小的城市来说，已经相当不错了，大多数观众的看剧需求都能被满足。布里斯托还有著名的音乐厅- 圣乔治与科尔顿音乐厅（St Georges and Colton Hall），这里每周都会举办爵士音乐会或独奏会，有时候还会邀请世界著名的音乐家来表演。

要问哪里可以看到英国最好的音乐表演或歌剧，毋庸置疑，当然是伦敦。伦敦有230个剧院，13个音乐厅，每周有数百场演出，而且表演质量极高，举世闻名的艺术家们都会在这里献艺…… 可以说，在伦敦，人人都可以找到自己最喜欢的歌剧表演。

去年夏天，我跟父母还专门去伦敦看了BBC逍遥音乐会。BBC逍遥音乐会是一年一度的夏季音乐会，总共会持续8周的时间，每一周都会有不同的音乐表演跟活动，比如管弦乐、古典乐等等。主要场所在皇家阿尔伯特音乐厅。这个活动始于1833年，一直持续到了今天。我们当时看了维多利亚女王诞辰200周年音乐会，这是一次超乎绝伦的体验，在音乐中能深刻感受到背后的历史与文化，以至于音乐会结束后我们还在兴致勃勃的讨论之前发生的一切。如果有机会，一定不能错过这梦幻般的体验。

鉴于目前的情况，在家隔离至少让我有更多的机会去静心感受歌剧的魅力。我现在每周大概要看两场歌剧。希望在隔离结束后，也能保持这个习惯。歌剧给了我一个欣赏音乐的全新视角。疫情结束后，我一定要去现场多多观看！

PS：强烈推荐威尔第的《La Traviata》

Jack

英文版

It's now the end of my second week in quarantine and for me, the two weeks felt more like two years to me. 

Although day to day life is relatively paced, looking back to when the school first closed seemed so long in the past. In these two weeks, especially for the past few days, I've resorted watching operas to keep me occupied and musically inspired. Looking back to the time when we can still go out and enjoy these performances live, I am now ever so much more appreciative of the experiences I had.

Although Britain is not the most opera and musically cultured country in Europe, especially if you compare to countries like Austria, where they have a massive opera culture, there are still quite a selection of performances in many cities, with bigger cities like London, Manchester and Liverpool having their own opera houses.

In the city of Bristol where I live, one can easily go to the Hippodrome( the most popular theatre in Bristol) and see a range of musicals, plays or occasionally operas. With new ones coming every season (around three to four months), this is pretty decent for a relatively small city like Bristol and should satisfy many annual and seasonal viewers. With concerts, Bristol has more to offer with it's most well-known concert halls - St Georges and Colton Hall - having jazz concerts to recitals weekly, sometimes even with world-renowned musicians performing. But for Bristol, this is about it. 

If you ask anyone about where to see the best musical or opera in the UK, almost everyone will say London. Of course, with two hundred and thirty theatres and thirteen concert halls having hundreds of performances weekly, London is the place to go. You can find your desired operas, plays or concert performed by your favourite theatre companies or orchestra almost at any time of the year. The quality of the performance is very high with many world-renowned performers staring the shows. 

Just last summer, my parents and I went to London specifically to see the BBC Proms. The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, performed predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall. This event first started in 1833 and have been going on since. We went to see the two hundredth anniversary of Queen Victoria concert which was incredibly enjoyable, both the music and the stories and history behind the pieces. The concert ended at eight and we had a nice dinner near the Royal Albert Hall still chatting about the music and the performer going back to the hotel around nine. A fantastic and very pleasurable experience indeed.

Thinking about the situation now, the epidemic and quarantine strangely had a positive effect on me which is that it got me really into operas. I now will at least watch two operas every week and I will continue to do this even after the quarantine( possibly less in school term). Operas introduced a whole new dimension of music to me and I will definitely see a lot more of them live in the future. 

ps - Currently, I am watching La Traviata by Verdi and I really recommend it!

Jack

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