这里所讲新歌剧是指以“白毛女”、“刘胡兰”(罗宗贤等作曲)为代表的歌剧,它正处在成长的过程中,然而毕竟已成为一个剧种。它拥有一批剧目,一批演员、一批剧作家、作曲家和导演,尤其重要的,它拥有热爱它的广大观众。新歌剧的历史虽然很短,却是很光辉的,它是“一种在新社会里诞生,和目前伟大的现实斗争一同向前成长的艺术。”(张庚语)它是中国新文化运动的产儿,也可以说是新文艺中的硕果。在世界文艺史上,这样激励革命热情,唤起广大群众的艺术品种是不多 The new opera here refers to the opera represented by “White-Haired Girl” and “Liu Hulan” (Luo Zongxian and other composers). It is in the process of growing up, but after all, it has become a drama. It has a number of repertoire, a group of actors, a group of dramatists, composers and directors, especially important, it has a large audience who love it. The history of the new opera, though short and splendid, is “a piece of art that was born in a new society and grew forward with the present great real struggle.” (Zhang Geng language) It is the birthplace of the New Culture Movement in China , Can also be said that the new literature and art fruit. In the history of literary and art history in the world, it is not much to inspire revolutionary enthusiasm and arouse the broad masses of art species