想想在紫禁城上演这出歌剧吧——不可能有比这更好的场景了！你几乎可以感受到历史。

Just imagine performing such an opera in the Forbidden City - there could not be a better setting! You could almost feel the history.

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陈家刚：所以我当时想，废墟里面一种歌剧吧，其实所有的文学作品都是悲剧，喜剧嘻嘻哈哈过来的就完了。

CJG: So I was thinking about an opera in the ruins. All literature is tragedy. The comedy stuff just disappears in a fit of laughter. This stuff of mine is very tragic.

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让我们来看看流行歌曲和意大利歌剧作曲家文森佐·贝里尼（1801-1835）的咏叹调之间的区别吧。

Take any popular song and compare it to any aria by the Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), for example.

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It's the story of the old opera house and the ghost of the opera, right?

这个故事讲的是一所老歌剧院和歌剧院的幽灵，对吧？

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