试论中国民族歌剧的美学精神

20世纪的中国民族歌剧,始终坚持民族化和大众化的审美选择与价值取向,以体现高昂时代主旋律的审美创造,显示出感人至深的精神力量和审美效应。中国民族歌剧经受着时代和中外文化的共同影响,在文化选择、美学追求、精神内涵、审美功能等诸多因素的交融和整合过程中,形成并逐渐完善了美学风格:以歌唱为主,多元综合化的艺术表现形式,以及“悲壮”、“优美”和兼容于二者之中的“幽默”这3种审美形态。

On the Aesthetic Spirit of National Chinese Operas

th Century's National Chinese Operas had constantly stuck to the aesth etic choice and value -orientation expressed in their nationalization and catering for the taste and interest of the common people.They displayed a touching spiritual force and aesthetic e ffect with their aesthetic creation featured by their central t heme of the era.They experienced the coordinated influence of the foreign cultures as well as Chinese c ulture and thereupon a unique aesthetic style had been formed and gradually perfected in the course of the blend and integration of such ele ments as cultural choice,aesthetic pursuit,spiritual embod iment and aesthetic function.This a esthetic style relies mainly on singing with multiple and comprehen sive artistic forms of expression going along with it and mingled with such aesthetic elements as sole mn and heroic spirit,sublimed grace and humor.