Opera

Yeah

... like, "That's just an opera." Anyway, they go to see Mr.

Opera, the boss of the opera.

Mr.

Opera.

King Opera.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ich, ich glaubes, ja.

Es ist a ungemene Sach bei Chazonim, az sie singen Operas.

Du, was machen es ja, was machen es nischt?

Ähm, ich weiß, Mensch, Kasewitzke hat fast ikh Zart gearbeitet in a Opera in Tbilisi, in Georgia.

Simon Phillips has directed everything from Shakespeare to contemporary works, from musicals to opera.

He was one of the creative minds behind Australian stage musicals like Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which he took to the West End and Broadway, Ladies in Black and Muriel's Wedding, which has also had a recent run in the UK.

He's twice directed Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour and was director of the new Australasian version of its sequel, Love Never Dies.

On top of all that, he's had long stints as artistic director of both the State Theatre Company of South Australia and the Melbourne Theatre Company.

He's also the recipient of seven Green Room Awards and six Heltman Awards.

Troubled, that's

fair enough.

It wasn't exclusively negative, but it was beset by, and has always been dogged by people outraged at the idea of writing a sequel to Phantom of the Opera anyway.

In this creation, we explore this a lot.

I mean, the singer, she's from the opera.

She had never done acrobatics before meeting us.

And now she's singing incredibly technical.

What do you

do? I'm...

Officially, I guess people would say I'm an opera singer.

But I like to present myself more as a...

Narrator read by Libby Gone.

Prologue, in which the author of this singular work informs the reader how he acquired the certainty that the Opera Ghost really existed.

The Opera Ghost really existed.

He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box keepers, the cloakroom attendants, or the concierge.

Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom, that is to say, of a spectral shade.

When I began to ransack the archives of the National Academy of Music, I was at once struck by the surprising coincidences between the phenomena ascribed to the ghost and the most extraordinary and fantastic tragedy that ever excited the Paris upper classes, and I soon conceived the idea that this tragedy might reasonably be explained by the phenomena in question.

The events do not date more than 30 years back, and it would not be difficult to find, at the present day, in the foyer of the ballet, old men of the highest respectability, men upon whose words one could absolutely rely, who would remember as though they happened yesterday the mysterious and dramatic conditions that attended the kidnapping of Christine Daaé, the disappearance of the Vicomte de Chagny, and the death of his elder brother, Count Philippe, whose body was found on the bank of the lake that exists in the lower cellars of the Opera on the Rue Scribe side.

But none of those witnesses had until that day thought that there was any reason for connecting the more or less legendary figure of the opera ghost with that terrible story.

OK，那第一站呢，我们来到了澳洲的最大城市，那就是雪梨。欸，说到雪梨，同学们会想到什么？就是那个白色的风帆有没有，那个建筑物非常的有名，有没有？大家猜到是哪里了吗？

It's the Sydney Opera House, one of the most famous modern buildings in the world。

雪梨歌剧院的英文是Sydney Opera House。 Opera，O-P-E-R-A，opera是歌剧的意思。歌剧院呢，坐落在雪梨港的旁边，设计啊融合蓝天、海水跟城市风景，所以被称为现代建筑奇迹，也是澳洲最具代表性的文化地标。

没错，里面呢还有这个音乐厅、剧场跟展演的空间哦，很多人都会专程去看表演。You can enjoy world-class shows inside or just relax by the harbor like the locals do。

除了欣赏表演之外啊，很多当地人平常也喜欢去港边散步放松哦。

Note, let's learn the useful sentence。Have you ever been to？Have you ever been to？你去过某个地方吗？如果我想问朋友有没有去过雪梨，就可以问Have you ever been to Sydney？只要把地名放进句子里就可以啰。

今天我们的任务圆满完成啰，我们探索了三个城市地标，也学会了实用的英文句型哦。所以最后再请Lydia老师为大家总复习一下吧。

Let's review the words and sentence of the day。Sydney Opera House，雪梨歌剧院。Auckland Sky Tower，奥克兰天空塔。Melbourne street art，墨尔本街头艺术。Have you ever been to？你去过某个地方吗？

hector's father louis belleoz a doctor and a property owner had at one time been mayor of la cause andre in eighteen o two he had married marie antoinette josephine marmion a good-looking woman religious to the point of bigotry hector was the oldest of six children two of whom died at an early age the surviving daughters nancy and adele were followed as late as eighteen twenty by a son of prosper a problem child in the truest sense of the term vague and unmanageable up to the time of a belated adolescence then developing into a mathematical genius and dying in his twentieth year before people had ceased to marvel at his talents hector's father supervised his early education though it was probably as a concession to his wife that he placed the youngster in the local catholic seminary the boy did not stay there long even if his mother harbored ambitions of making a saint of him for a time he went uncomplainingly to mass communion confession and the rest in his memoirs hector tells us details of his weekly confessions when he would say to the director of his conscience my father i have done nothing and that worthy would reply go on my child as you have begun and so he did for several years at least yet his mother's religiosity was to have the effect of turning ector's thought away from the church and toward the great figures of classical mythology he felt his heart throb and his voice quiver and break when he construed the fourth book of virgil's aeneid to his father and when the good man tactfully cut the lesson short hector was intensely grateful to him for taking no notice of my emotion and rushed away to vent my virgilian grief in solitude mythology was not the only love with which his father filled him under the paternal guidance he developed an interest in geography and stories of travel helped fire his imagination from an early age hector had shown a sensitiveness to musical impressions and besides learning to sing at sight acquired some proficiency in playing the flute and the flageolet though i was twelve before the magic of music was revealed to me presently he added to his musical accomplishments the playing of the guitar the piano he never apparently undertook to master but in later years he made a virtue of necessity and insisted he was glad to compose silently and freely without having to depend on the keyboard with harmony it was rather different and after an unsuccessful start with rameau's treatise on the subject even in a simplified form he had recourse to a text-book by catel in order to pick up some elementary principles these he presently put to use in a six-part potpourri on the collection of italian airs and in the composition of a couple of quintets for flute and strings the first was played by some local amateurs and aroused the enthusiasm of all the hearers except hector's father dr berlioz preferred as much of the later quintet as his son was able to play him on the flute but the piece being much more difficult the amateur exegetants who tried it quickly suffered shipwreck the composer eventually burned both scores yet salvaged a theme his father had liked and then used it in his overture les frances juges simultaneously with these hit or miss musical studies the boy's emotional life was heightened at about this time by an incipient love affair if one can call it so hector's relatives the marmions had a country house near grenoble in the village of milan where he spent his vacations not far away in a white cottage surrounded by vineyards and gardens there lived with her mother and sister a tall and exceedingly pretty girl of eighteen estelle dubuff at a family garden party to which hector and his relations had been invited estelle picked him for her partner in some game poor hector was conquered in the twinkling of an eye when a few minutes later he caught sight of estelle dancing with his uncle marmion who had been a soldier in napoleon's armies and cut a superb figure in his gaudy uniform and clanking burs the boy flew into a jealous rage only to have the whole party laugh at him but estelle his stella montis his star of the mountain remained enshrined in his memory for life their ways were to separate and they lost track of each other for years a haggard old man racked and buffeted by numberless woes and disappointments he found her again and sought solace vainly as it proved in an attempt to recapture the shadow of a childhood fancy his reward was a polite note signed estelle fournier her married name and a conventional affectionate greeting into which he chose to read meanings that the old lady never remotely intended actor's parents determined he should follow in his father's footsteps and become a physician the idea revolted him and he struggled against it much as schumann combated his mother's wish to make a jurist of a youth with the soul of a poet nevertheless he made as if to comply with the parental will though one can guess with how many unspoken reservations and so in the autumn of eighteen twenty one he set off for paris to study medicine but what fascinated him there were the theatres the opera-houses the concert halls things which up to that time he had never enjoyed the opportunity of visiting and not the loathsome hospitals anatomical amphitheatres dissecting rooms and other nauseating horrors He had felt all along that he was never intended to spend his life at the bedside of sick people in hospitals and dissecting chambers.

His father had made the cardinal mistake of using his love of music as a lever for removing his childish aversion to embark on the study of medicine, and as a reward for working earnestly at osteology, had given his refractory son nothing less to the purpose than a splendid flute with all the new keys.

In Paris, Hector lost no time visiting the Opera, the Teatro Italiano, the Teatro Fedio, the Ambiguo Comique.

He heard Salieri's Danaeids, Bourdieu's Voiture Versailles, Delarec's Nina.

Above all, he heard Gluck's Iphigenia en Paride, and this masterpiece definitely settled the question.