音乐剧是融汇音乐、舞蹈、戏剧表演等多种艺术形式于一身的现代舞台剧,它形成至今已有百余年的历史了。 十九世纪中叶,随着资本主义大工业生产的繁荣发达,在歌剧史上以莫扎特《费加罗的婚礼》和罗西尼《塞维利亚的理发师》为代表的喜歌剧重又在欧洲大陆风行起来,涌现了大批喜歌剧和轻歌剧作品,如施特劳斯的《蝙蝠》、莱哈尔的《风流寡妇》、奥芬巴赫的《美丽的海伦》《霍夫曼的故事》、斯美塔那的《被出卖的新嫁娘》等等。这些轻喜剧专以轻松愉快的情节和生动悦耳的音乐取悦欧洲公众,因而很受欢迎。这种古典轻歌剧和喜歌剧随着欧洲歌剧团的巡回演出和欧洲移民的淘金热也登上了美洲大陆,并且同样受到了美国观众的喜爱。轻喜剧风格便成了音乐剧的形式来源之一。 到了十九世纪末,随着社会生活节奏和公众心理节奏的 Musical theater is a modern stage play that integrates various art forms such as music, dance and drama performances. It has been formed for over one hundred years now. In the mid-nineteenth century, with the flourishing development of the capitalist industrial production, the operatic opera represented by Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” and “Barber of Seville” by Rossini in the history of opera was re-established again in Europe The rise of the mainland, a large number of comic opera and operetta works, such as Strauss’s “Bat”, Lehir’s “Merry Widow”, Offenbach’s “beautiful Helen” “Hoffman’s story” Smetana’s “betrayed new bride” and so on. These light comedies are very popular for pleasing the European public with lighthearted plot and lively music. This classical operette and comic opera also boarded the Continent with the European Opera Troupe tour and the gold rush of European immigrants, and was similarly favored by American audiences. Light comedy style has become a form of musical origins. By the end of the nineteenth century, with the rhythm of social life and the public psychological rhythm