[The Phantom of the Opera] Boundary Bridge

What should Princess Ariel look like?

She may be gentle and lively, or she may be smart and cunning.Maybe bold and rebellious, or maybe naive and yearning.Everyone has their own imagination of Ariel in their hearts.However, when the mermaid princess played by Enid walked out from behind the stage, there was only one thought in the audience's mind - this is Ariel.

Yes, this is Ariel.She is innocent, tender, and persistent, but this is not enough to describe one of the beauty of Ariel.What this tender and brave girl possesses is the purest heart in the world.Her beauty puts all things to shame.

Maybe the language is pale, and the description will only make people laugh out loud.However, seeing it with your own eyes, you will find that there is such a kind of beauty in the world, which makes people love and pity, so that people will not feel jealous and hate, but yearn for it in their hearts.It is true that Ariel is not a kind and pure perfect person like Princess Sterle, but the richness and beauty of her pure and full soul, like rays of light, is the most inescapable unique charm.

Before that, Stele, played by Christine, had revealed half of her silhouette.Even so, her gentle singing voice also draws a vague image of Stelle for people: she is kind, gentle, innocent and beautiful, and she is the pinnacle of a beautiful woman in the fantasy of the world.Her beauty can't help but make people worry about Ariel who will appear later, worrying that Ariel will not be able to overwhelm the perfect silhouette of Stele.

But Ariel showed a completely different charm.

She also has a gentle and kind heart, but her temperament is fuller, and her singing and soul are more substantial and firm.If Stele is a beautiful floating cloud in the sky, then Ariel is a torrent rushing from the bottom of the sea.The gurgling water does not change the softness, but it also has determination.Her beauty is collected from the depths of the sea, and she is the daughter of the sea.

The woman in front of him was not Enid, but Ariel—clearly, Eric knew this very well.However, when he saw Enid walking out from behind the stage with a gentle smile, he still couldn't help but lean forward a little like others, and immersed himself in the interweaving and resonance of the two images.His heart trembled in the distance, as if for a complicated mystery, and for this beauty itself.

The lights on the stage had already hit Ariel.This woman is so out of this world.She held the sea flowers and fruits in her hands, and accompanied by the soft and soothing sound of the violin, she opened her lips and sang:

"Come, my friends! Share with me the joy of this spring day!

Although I don't know the beautiful scenery on the shore, I have heard my sisters tell it thousands of times!

My name is Ariel, and I am the youngest of his seven daughters.

Tomorrow is my birthday and I will be given permission to surface. "

"The secrets of the bottom of the sea intoxicate me, and the fantastic adventures of this world seduce my soul.

What will I encounter?What will I expect?

......"

The moment she opened her mouth, no sound could be heard in the already extremely quiet theater.

Ariel's singing voice is slower than Sterler's softness, but it is also full of unique passionate charm, so that even when she sings the not passionate, just beautiful and deep ditty People have to pay attention.

"Her singing brought a whole new kind of thrill to Paris," wrote one reviewer after the performance.

"It's like a dream, but more powerful than a dream. It's a majestic process of one's dream," said another.

But at this moment, Christine, who was waiting for her appearance in the background, heard the faint singing from the stage, but felt the ominous premonition in her heart getting heavier.Enid's performance was so good, better than any of her past performances, but because of this, Christine was even more worried.

She suddenly remembered a conversation she had with Enid after a rehearsal.

At that time, everyone had just finished rehearsing the last scene, and the little mermaid turned into foam and died. In the next morning, the prince and princess walked arm in arm by the sea, sighed casually when they saw the foam, and talked about the legend of the mermaid.And after Christine sang the last line of "eternal happiness and joy" with a shy and happy smile, she suddenly fell to her knees, unable to get up, and burst into tears.

"I'm so sad, I'm so sad." Everyone was startled and wanted to help her up.But Christine just repeated the sentence through tears and couldn't say anything else.Until Enid walked towards her, others subconsciously gave way like Moses divided the sea.Then the blond woman bent down, and her cool, soft fingers pressed against Christine's face.

"Christine, are you okay?" she asked softly.

Christine was taken aback, and then she recognized the person in front of her, and immediately held the other's fingers tightly.

"Enid," she called, her voice full of helplessness and pain, "Ariel," she called again.

Everyone was whispering.They worry that it's the Phantom of the Opera again, because Christine already looks a little crazy.

But Enid stretched out her arms to embrace the kind and weak girl in front of her at this moment.She knows that the other party's tears are not due to the weakness of the heart, but because of her kindness and sensitivity in nature. This is a good talent and should be protected.

She coaxed her patiently and tenderly.

Christine finally stopped choking.In fact, she didn't know what was wrong with her, she just felt that those songs were too beautiful and moving, so they had a sense of unreality and falsehood.It seems to be colorful bubbles, floating in the sun, which will be disillusioned in the next second.Her sadness, her panic, and her uncertainty are the complete portrayal of this work.

They sound too soft, a false goodness that crumbles at the mere touch.

"Sorry." She finally calmed down and said in a low voice.However, in the next second, Christine raised her head again and looked at Enid again.Her soft, sweet brown eyes were clouded with tears, but she must know the truth.

"Everything in the end was a deception, wasn't it?" She said softly, the sadness in her words almost overflowing, "The mermaid is actually dead, isn't she?"

And Enid stared deeply into her eyes, but in the end she never answered clearly.

She said only: "The mermaid misses the sea and the song," and then fell silent.

But at this moment behind the scenes, Christine suddenly recalled the conversation during the rehearsal, and an ominous sign flashed in her heart.She repeatedly recalled Enid's gentle and sad face at that time, the pain and silence buried in those blue eyes.

She suddenly felt that something bad was about to happen.

And at this moment on the stage, Enid had already sung the first two bars of the repertoire.Now she is singing the third measure, and Ariel is talking to the fish and shrimp passing by, which are her friends.The fish and shrimps told her fantastic adventure stories, which was a topic she would never get tired of, while Ariel expressed her great anticipation for floating on the surface of the sea after her birthday.

"Be careful, don't encounter a storm." The flounder warned her, "Although we can dive to the bottom of the sea, if we encounter the debris of the sunken ship, we may be scratched and smashed."

Ariel then remembered the huge shipwreck they had explored together.

But she insisted: "My friend, I know you are worried about my safety. But how precious is life? If that happens, I will definitely rescue the humans who fell into the sea."

Flounder swayed his body, sighed and stopped persuading him.

The performance has already passed the beginning. It is said that there should be a little restlessness in the theater at this time, but the full audience has remained quiet so far.They watched the performance on stage intently. Although they might not be able to understand the charm, they were deeply attracted instinctively, and they couldn't look away.That is the charm of a full and clear soul, and it is the acme that singing can inspire the soul to shape characters.Because that's what's on the stage—that's what's standing—Ariel from that book of fairy tales that everyone's read.

At this moment, the performance of Ariel and Yuxia laughing and singing on the stage is over, but the opening song is not over yet.With great ambition, the composer tried to show the mystery of the underwater world and the life experience and character of the heroine with a long song as the boundary.From the lively and light at the beginning, the tune gradually slides into cheerfulness and mighty chorus, which is the voice of countless underwater creatures, which is——

"Come, dear little sister, follow us across the borders of night.

There are countless secrets of the deep sea hidden in those shifting lights and shadows!

We are daughters of the Neptune, we are daughters of the sea.

We are sisters of light, we are flowers in the waves.

Come, come quickly!Do you hear the banshee's laughter?

We are unrestrained, we are free, and our singing is like the sound of nature!

We are daughters of the Neptune, we are daughters of the sea.

The deep sea is us!We are the embodiment of the sea! "

A distant and mighty singing sound came, and several women sang joyfully together, their singing voices were crisp and lively, each with its own characteristics.And the clear and clear sea water on the stage also seemed to fluctuate at this moment.The blowing wind and the floating sea flowers are the prelude to their arrival, and six mermaids suddenly swim out from above one by one.

Their movements are graceful and lively, with an innate elegance and a free and simple natural atmosphere.Their fingers are white and slender, their bodies are flexible and affectionate, they swim freely in the flowing sea water, singing moving songs in unison.The six mermaids have different eye colors, hair colors, tail colors, and different costumes, but without exception, they all have that extraordinary and detached atmosphere, making people unreasonably convinced that there are really mermaids hidden in the depths of the sea. a living thing.

"But none of them are as beautiful as Ariel." More than one person thought to himself, "Although I wonder where the Opera House finds so many young and beautiful girls with clear singing voices, I still think that they are beautiful enough , but all of them don’t fascinate me as much as Ariel.”

The six princesses on the stage have appeared in front of everyone.They gradually came to the front of the stage, facing the audience, and explained their names and characteristics with two short lyrics. After that, their singing voices converged again, swimming in the sea with laughter.The difference is that Ariel, this time she finally followed up with the sisters laughing and stretching out their arms, cheerful and lively.She also joined the mermaid princesses roaming the bottom of the sea, closely behind the six sisters, and she sang——

"I often feel that fate is waiting ahead..."