为什么《威廉·退尔》(Guillaume Tell)会成为罗西尼的最后一部歌剧(罗西尼创作《威廉·退尔》时年仅37岁)?这是音乐史上的一个谜。尽管史学家提出过种种解释,但我们可能永远不会知道真正的原因。而本季大都会歌剧院的演出证明,罗西尼之后没有再写作歌剧,恐怕也是音乐史上最大的遗憾之一。亲历该剧1829年巴黎歌剧院首演的观众,开演前大概没预料到罗西尼的新作会是这样一部气势恢宏的作品,因为虽然巴黎人花了重金礼聘这位当时最富盛名的歌剧作曲家,但罗 Why did Guillaume Tell become Rossini’s last opera (only 37 when Rossini wrote “William Tell”)? This is a mystery in the history of music. Although historians have put forward various explanations, we may never know the real reason. The performance of the Metropolitan Opera this season shows that after Rossini no longer writing opera, I am afraid it is one of the biggest regret in the history of music. The audience who watched the show debut at the Paris Opera in 1829 probably did not expect Rosssson’s new book to be such a magnificent piece of work before the show because although the Parisians spent heavily on hiring the most famous of the time Opera composer, but Luo