About Opera

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About Opera

Geoffrey Brock

Fuggirmi io sol non so

In the real world, lighting¹ is undesigned;

here it's high art. After we find our seats,

silence our cells and smooth our ruffled² minds,

and just before the curtains rise, houselights

go out. We vanish, and before our eyes

adjust, a splendid spectacle begins

in which we're borne, again, into the lives

of others -- figures whose shaded joys and pains

might be, for these three hours, ours. Yet

what can we hope to understand of them?

Words in a strange, old tongue (il fazzoletto!)

shine through the wordless music as through a scrim

by turns opaque³ and blindingly transparent⁴ --

words whose sources are masks, mouths gaping⁵ wide.

Still, some intelligence like a welder's current

leaps the orchestra pit (where shadows hide

that pulsing drum, those lacerating strings),

and something is spilling, something even grander,

perhaps, than life, from the woman who now sings,

now dies, as passion fills white space around her,

fills us, and tears are spilling down our faces --

there's too much light, it's all too brightly lit!

Kind curtains fall, and a governed dark replaces

all light but the glow of the pages in the pit.

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1 lighting
n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光
参考例句：
The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。 The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。

2 ruffled
adj. 有褶饰边的, 起皱的动词ruffle的过去式和过去分词
参考例句：
She ruffled his hair affectionately. 她情意绵绵地拨弄着他的头发。 All this talk of a strike has clearly ruffled the management's feathers. 所有这些关于罢工的闲言碎语显然让管理层很不高兴。

3 opaque
adj.不透光的；不反光的，不传导的；晦涩的
参考例句：
The windows are of opaque glass.这些窗户装着不透明玻璃。 Their intentions remained opaque.他们的意图仍然令人费解。

4 transparent
adj.明显的，无疑的；透明的
参考例句：
The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明，可以看到鱼儿游来游去。 The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。

5 gaping
adj.口的；张口的；敞口的；多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 )；张开，张大
参考例句：
Ahead of them was a gaping abyss. 他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。 The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。来自《简明英汉词典》