ーー 次の英交を読んで, 後の設問に符えよ。 J Nor long ago, Bernard Levin wrote a piece in which he confessed,|a touch gleefulli, amd asleep。 and ra he loved. but haller ieft him cok artificial This、 coming frOm a art forms more artifcial than at he did not care for balet_ Ope ③ his he put dowm io the fact that he found it jover of opera. 1 found very strange。 There can be few 。 opera. in yhich the characters sing instead oC speak_ repeat things rathermore often an還識 we do in fe in a language which the audience scldom understands and play out a Stor7/ hich bas to be learnt beforehand if one j8 ー Twish TIiked opera. Treally do。 1have made every efforr Well quite a 知w efOrGS エ once heard Rossins TLa Cenerentola' on Radio 3 and enjoyed it a lo fnding it very fanny, ie despite not ( ⑮ ) the story。 There was a producton ( ⑥ ) in London a few months, Jater, so Iwent to see it一 and sat stonyaced throughout the entiro evening The onhy *Pit Tcan remember now was where a messenger yas being dispatched fronu court TgoTgoF he sang -Then go・sang is master ga TgoTago ・Then go, then go sang the chorus famigi 'e replk ttook him about tyo minutes to go. This 1 found quite fanny though 1 dont think ④ it was meant to be: る Butis notthis sort of arGificiality that disturbs me. The reason 1 dont hike opera 5 quite simply that 1 dont like the way they sing 環hnd the lassical convention of singtng whetherin opera or "ieder, so mannered, so alien andL T'snppose so unnatural that it NIS To become a good opera singer you have to gO through years of training in which the voice acquires a "timbre as artificial in its own way as the acting 2s in Noh plays or the dialogue in "situation comedies. Tf you like it is great If you dont @ (area closed プョンjsンartンwhole oo you. T havent discussed this with Bernard Levin for the simple reason that T haVe_neVer met him but I would imagine that there are sounds which he finds equalhy alien 一 the sound of the saxophone in jazz, perhaps or of the electic blues guitar, sounds which are o meat and dripk to me. IS a question of personal taste, perhaps of some kind of personal -chemish- Unfortunately for me。 there are some composers who wrote the kind Tjove but who decided to specialise in vocal music so ⑤ most of their output is o8 me *Bernard Levin : イギリス人ジャーナリスト (1928.2004) "bit : 「(劇, 映画などの) 一場面(部分」 "jieder :「リート : ドイツ歌曲] 単数形は lied。 "situation comedy : 「(テレビ・ラジオの) 6