[The Phantom of the Opera] Boundary Bridge

The roaming of the princesses is different from the time when the underwater fantasy world is displayed in a macroscopic way.The singing of the girls is always so soft and beautiful, full of the unique softness of women, yet lively and joyful.

Girls at this age are always yearning for love, and princesses are no exception.They roamed the seabed and saw all kinds of wonderful things from their perspective.They tell each other their hope for love, but the youngest Ariel is quite out of place.

This young girl has a curious heart full of desire to explore, and she yearns for the unknown.

The sisters gave her good-natured ridicule and sincere persuasion, but Ariel was quite firm.After that, they stopped arguing and just enjoyed the beauty and freedom of the seabed.

At this time, the first song has ended, and the second song is Ariel's "I often feel that fate is waiting ahead".The little mermaid confides her dreams in her singing, and the jokes of her sisters become the embellishment of the song.There is no lack of softness in this song, but it is more of a majestic destiny. When it is sung to its climax, there seems to be the sound of rising tide in the background. It sounds exciting, as if touching the power of life.

After singing, the princesses returned to the sea king's palace, and the grandma held hands and cared for them tenderly.The little mermaid's birthday is coming soon, and the sisters all brought oyster pearls and coral flowers to dress her up, and told about what they saw when they floated on the sea.They also talked about the Sea Witch, a mysterious and wicked old woman who was said to be able to make many strange potions.

Grandma knows Ariel's character well, and she doesn't allow other sisters to mention this nonsense in front of her.

Then came the well-known plot: Ariel was finally allowed to float to the surface on her birthday, and saw a prince holding a wine glass on a gorgeous brightly lit boat from a distance.And she fell in love with this handsome human man at the first sight.

The man playing the role of the human prince Lucio is the baritone Baptiste specially invited by the opera house.He is a handsome young actor, both in appearance and in his voice. It is a shame to play the role of the little prince in "The Daughter of the Sea".If he didn't like the script, he wouldn't be able to accept the invitation.

The appearance of the prince is a ray of bright and brilliant notes in the grand carnival.This man's heart is equally good. He blows the sea breeze alone, murmurs poetry and philosophy, and thinks about the future.His singing is far away, but moving.Ariel was immediately attracted by him, and she leaned on the rock, singing softly:

"Lucio? Oh, Lucio...they call him Lucio. Doesn't that name mean light? Oh, Lucio! Light! Lucio, my light!"

What she received was a pure attraction, a very rare, extremely difficult to express and very incomprehensible emotion, but there is no doubt that it was love-Ariel fell in love with her from the first meeting. Lucio, without the other party knowing.This is not only the prologue of the story, but also a preview of the tragedy.

"It was touching, I mean, it was touching—that scene when Ariel first met Lucio." Someone excitedly described the scene of the night to a friend, "We all know the jumps and incoherence of fairy tales, some details There may be a lack of evidence, but when it is actually moved to the stage, it will inevitably make people feel weird. You can say that Ariel fell in love with Lucio at first sight, but why? Why did she love that human man so deeply, and it led to a series of tragedies in the following ? This is obviously hard to make sense."

"But the performance that night made us accept it so naturally. It's incredible, and we have already fallen in love with Ariel's full charm up front, and it is impossible to allow her to be pushed by the plot, like a paper man. In the case of falling in love with the prince. The performance of the actors is great, especially Ariel - she just looked at Lucio and sang tenderly and infatuatedly. I deeply appreciate the moment when her girlish feelings sprouted What a beautiful moment."

"Love, in fact, is not a good feeling between a man and a woman? What reason is needed for this? Ariel stands there, her eyes are blurred, her lips are red, and her smile is sweet. It only takes one look to convince us that she has fallen into love." Love. The most authentic, original, and eternal love between people revived in her body. She fell in love with Lucio without any reason, just a glance. Maybe the person she fell in love with It's the prince, maybe it's love she's in love with, it doesn't make any difference at the moment."

"However, one of them is a human and the other is a mermaid, which seems to be telling the ominous ending from the very beginning."

In a blink of an eye, the color of the sky and the earth changed, and the sea suddenly tilted, naturally showing terrifying power, and the waves roared and rolled.The prince's big boat dodged left and right, but still hit the rock hard, and then was overturned by the storm.Countless people fell into the sea, and the life and death of the handsome prince were also unknown.

The little mermaid was taken aback, and she immediately left the place where she was lying on her stomach, and swam desperately into the debris of the big ship.At this moment, there is only one thought in her mind, that is, the prince must never die!She didn't think about whether she would be crushed to death by the heavy wood chips at all, she just swam hard and didn't dare to stop no matter how sore her arms were.The melody fluctuates amidst the heavy momentum, only the hopeful voice of the Little Mermaid echoes:

"Light! Lucio! There's light!"

She finally caught the fainted prince in distress, lowered her head in love and affection, and pressed her cheek against his cold face.But Ariel knew that she couldn't stay for long, it was too dangerous here, and she wanted to send the prince to the shore!There were no surviving crew members nearby. The Little Mermaid looked at the surrounding sea sadly, hugged the prince tightly with her right arm, and swam to the shore with her left arm and fish tail.

Where there are people, people will be able to wake up the prince!There is also a castle there, where the prince's parents and relatives live!

The little mermaid was swimming hard.Finally, she pushed the prince onto the beach.

It was still dark and dark.The little mermaid watched over the prince carefully, and put his head out of the way of the sea.She whispered to him anxiously, and it was only when it was finally dawn that she had to turn back and swim to the sea.

She didn't go far away, she waited behind the rocks near the sea and quietly watched the prince to see who would rescue him.

A young woman walked in the sunlight.Her demeanor was so gentle and pure, and her ruddy face was shrouded in a carefree light.She has a pair of slender and beautiful legs, hidden under a light pink skirt.She is none other than Princess Strato, played by Christine, who comes singing:

"The breeze and the flowers are my friends..."

This paragraph may be the first meeting of the three protagonists in the true sense.With a smile on her face, Stele was surprised to see the sleeping prince, and immediately supported him to pat his back, and then she called many people for help, the prince finally opened his eyes gradually, and smiled at Stele.

The little mermaid in the sea was very sad, and her murmurs turned into fine sea foam, which also soaked into her painful heart.But everything on the shore is independent of her will, just like the music at this moment, joyful and soft, like flowers blooming slowly under the morning light.Princess Stele and Prince Lucio were bathed in a strange halo.

The scene was so beautiful that it was heartbreaking, but the audience couldn't help but feel a tingle in their hearts.They couldn't help thinking, but what about the Little Mermaid?What about that kind and poor girl?Her wish is for the prince to be saved, but they all know her deeper desire.The picture of the prince and the princess looking at each other hand in hand is so beautiful, but the sad figure of the little mermaid swimming into the deep sea cuts their hearts heavily.

Everyone knows what will happen in "The Daughter of the Sea", but even if they know, they still can't help but be moved by the characters on the stage and give their emotions. This is probably the charm of opera.

In the days that followed, these audiences knew nothing about what happened on the shore.Their gazes were all attracted by the figure of the little mermaid, watching her brooding and meditating, suffering without saying a word.There is a gentle and pious divinity in her solo, which makes people's soul tremble.After that day, the little mermaid sneaked up on the sea to meet the prince many times. The most recent time, she even mustered up the courage to swim to the inner river of the palace, and looked up at the prince's face obsessively under the shadow of the marble platform.

Lucio in the moonlight makes Ariel fall in love deeply, and make her more painful.Day by day her love deepened and became more sullen.In the process of floating on the surface of the sea, she saw many fishermen and heard their songs. She gradually fell in love with humans and longed to be one of them.

"If I had legs, if I were human!" she thought to herself, "would he love me?"

She went to ask her grandmother about human beings.Grandma told her that humans cannot live in water, they are not like mermaids, which have a lifespan of 300 years.But there is one thing that mermaids cannot compare with humans - because they have eternal souls.

"When we die, we turn into foam on the sea, and we can't even leave a grave for our loved ones!" Grandma replied sadly, "But human beings, they have immortal souls! life, but human souls live forever. Even if their bodies turn to dust, their souls will fly high in the sky, fly to the shining stars, and go to mysterious and beautiful places that we will never reach.”

"Then why can't we have an immortal soul?" The little mermaid asked sadly, and she said, "I would rather give up hundreds of years of life, as long as I fly into the sky for even one day! But why can't we have an immortal soul?" What about your soul?"

"A mermaid can't have an immortal soul!" Grandma warned her, and she might have thought of something later, her expression showing pain, "Unless there is someone who entrusts all his thoughts and love to you, at this moment He loves you forever, and his soul will give you a new, immortal soul. At the same time, his own soul will not disappear. But this kind of thing can't happen! You don't know How ugly our tails look to humans!"

"Immortal soul?"

"Ugly tail!"

"Eternal love?"

"Ugly tail!"

"The hope in my heart?"

"Ugly tail!"

……

In order to cheer up the gloomy granddaughter, the old mermaid held many banquets.At the bottom of the sea, the mermaids are singing and dancing, whose grand beauty is rare in the world, and among them, the singing of Ariel, the little mermaid, is the most beautiful.But Ariel was absent-minded throughout all the dimly-lit banquets.She walks on the edge of the crowd, singing in a low voice, her heart is thinking about love and an immortal soul.

Here is a very moving solo, Ariel said "I have made up my mind, I will put the happiness of my life in his hands!".She is eager to pursue love and to touch the immortal transparent soul, which gave her infinite courage.

"All the efforts she has made for her love and soul have made the result unimportant. This scene is really moving. When I watched it, countless tragic metaphors slipped through my mind, but the direction was bright. After a while, I went to Forget those fragments and devote yourself to this thrilling tragedy. This is not only a tragedy of love, but a collection of all the efforts of human beings chasing the fragments of dreams. It makes me sad and emotional at the same time Surging endlessly, I finally got the warmth and relief of collapse.”

——Self-report of an audience member

After that, as people know, Ariel mustered up the courage to cross the dark and terrifying canyon to find the sea witch.It was a short and hideous woman with a sinister expression and a strange smile from time to time.

"You're a fool!" She laughed and said after hearing her reason for coming, "But I will satisfy you, because I have seen your tragic end! You want to lose your fish tail and grow out Two human legs, to make that prince fall in love with you, and then get an immortal soul?" She laughed maniacally again, "Do you want the prince's love, or an immortal soul?"

"What I want to pursue is all the beautiful things that attract my heart." Ariel replied, "Soul—I don't know if I have that kind of thing, but I can always feel its lightness and transparency, just like my love ...beautiful things are worth sacrificing for. I can give my all, I can take any pain."

"That's what you said," replied the sea witch.

Then came a witch's solo, grotesque and wicked, with lots of maniacal laughter.The witch mocked everything in the world, and cursed that the little mermaid would lose everything, but she finally said her way.

"Listen, my beautiful princess!" said the witch, "I will bring you a bottle of poison like a knife. Before sunrise, you will swim to land with it, sit on the beach, and drink the potion. Drop. Your tail will be split in two and become beautiful human legs and feet. In the process, you will suffer unprecedented pain, like a sharp knife piercing your body! And it’s not just that.”

She said with a strange smile: "After that, you will have the lightest and most graceful steps in the world, but the price is that every step of yours is like walking on a sharp knife, and you will feel your blood is constantly flowing out! If you endure If you suffer from these pains, I will give you the medicine."

"I can bear—" Ariel replied, with tears in her eyes, "what are these physical pains if I can bear to abandon my sea, my sisters and my father?"

Her face was as pale as death.

"I am an unfilial daughter, I am a bad sister, but people have to live for their dreams. I believe that real beauty is worth pursuing, and I believe that prayers from the heart are not simple desires. My love and soul It's worth it for me to do this, so why should I hesitate? I'm sorry, sisters, I kissed you [-] times!"

"You have to remember." The witch's voice became soft and erratic again, "Once you drink my potion, you will never be able to change from a human to a mermaid, and you will never be able to return to your father's palace And if you can't make that prince fall in love with you with all his heart and give you his soul willingly, your heart will be broken and you will be drowned in the sea on the first morning of his marriage to someone else bubbles, and lose your life forever!"

"I do!" Ariel yelled.

The lights on the stage suddenly went out at this moment.