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ZhangYimou.HaveyouseenanyofZhangYimou’sfilms?Doyoulikethem?Whyorwhynot?WhatelsehasZhangYimoudirectedbesidesfilms?Theyarethe‘Bidforthe29thOlympicGamesinBeijing’,whichwasshowninMoscow,aperformanceattheclosingceremonyatAthensOlympicGames,anoutdoorperformanceofThirdSisterLiuinGuilinandTurandotinBeijingGothroughthepassageasquicklyaspossibleandtrytofindanswerstothethreequestionsinpartAonpage2.AnswersA1Turandotisanoperathattellsthestoryofacold-heartedChineseprincess,namedTurandot,wholivesintheForbiddenCity.Toavoidmarriage,shesaysthatanypotentialhusbandmustanswerthreeriddlescorrectlyordie.2GiacomoPucciniwrotetheopera.ThefinalscenewascompletedbyFrancoAlfano,oneofhisstudents,basedonPuccini’snotesafterhedied.3Itwasperformedoutdoors.MaincharactersofthestorySettingPlot(Turandot—aChineseprincess；Calaf—aprince；Liu—Calaf’sfather’syoungslave)Beijing’sForbiddenCityThestorytakesontheclassiclovetriangleofthethreemaincharactersTurandot,CalafandLiu.LiulovesCalaf,butCalafhasfalleninlovewithTurandot.BecauseTurandotdoesnotwanttogetmarried,shedeclaresthatanyonewhowantstomarryhermustanswerherthreequestions.Iftheonecannotanswerthesequestions,hewillbekilled.DirectorConductorActorsandactressesZhangYimouZubinMehta,aninternationallyfamousconductorborninIndiaSharonSweet—Turandot;BarbaraHendricks—Liu;KristjanJohannsson—Calaf;othersingersandmusiciansfromabroadandChina⑴HowmanyperformancesofTurandotwereperformedintheForbiddenCityinBeijing?A.eightB.sevenC.oneD.thetextdoesn’tmentionit⑵WhowroteTurandotandwhenwasitwritten?A.GiacomoPuccini,in1924B.GiacomoPuccini’sformerstudent,in1924C.ZubinMehta,inthe1990sD.SharonSweet,inthe1990s⑶WhenwasTurandotstagedinBeijing?A.in1924B.inthetwentyfirstcenturyC.inthe1990sD.in1998⑷Howdoesthewriterthinkoftheopera?A.terribleB.movingC.boringD.amazingListentothetapeandthenfinishPartsC1andC2.AnswersC11Becauseshefeltthatshecouldalmostfeelthehistory.2Sheiscold-hearted.3Hewaskilled.4Shedoesnothavetomarryhim.5HepromisedtoallowTurandottochooseherownhusband.6Eight.7TurandotwasplayedbySharonSweetfromtheUSA,LiuwasplayedbyBarbaraHendricksfromtheUSAandCalafwassungbyKristianJohannssonfromIceland.8Thebringingtogetherofthegroupofpeoplefrommanycountries,themusicandthesetting.C263521847PartsDandE.AnswersD1e2b3d4f5a6h7c8gE(1)performance(2)talents(3)China(4)gold(5)princess(6)riddles(7)potential(8)marry(9)setting(10)witnessedTalkaboutaWesternoraChineseoperathatyouareallfamiliarwith.Introducethemaincharacters,thesettingandtheplot.Let’scometoPartF.Workinpairsandshareyouropinionswitheachother.OperaThewordoperacomesfromItalian,sothefirstoperascameintobeinginItaly.Theoperaisaplayinwhichadramaticperformanceissettomusic,sotheactorsandactressessingsomeoralloftheirparts.Inthelate17thcentury,theoperawaspopularinsomeotherEuropeancountries,suchasEngland,FranceandGermany.Bornon22December1858inLucca,PucciniwasoneofthegreatestItaliancomposers,someofwhoseoperas,suchasMadamButterfly,Turandot,arestilllovedbypeopleindifferentcountries.GiacomoPucciniandTurandotZubinMehtaZubinMehtaisoneoftheworld’sgreatestconductors.Hebeganhisconductor’scareerwhenhewas25yearsold,andhehasconductedquiteafewfamousphilharmonicsintheworld,suchastheLosAngelesPhilharmonicandtheNewYorkPhilharmonic.Since1991,hehasledtheIsraelPhilharmonic.1.Itstarredsomeoftheworld’sgreatestoperasingers.(P18)几位世界顶级歌剧演唱家担当主演。s...