ABSTRACT

The emphasis that child “popera” stars like Charlotte Church, Jackie Evancho, and Amira Willighagen place on the sacred has serious ramifications for opera’s meaning in contemporary popular culture. On one hand, these singers bring opera to the masses and, in the words of Lawrence Levine, fight against “the idea that culture is for an elite audience only, and that it cannot come from the young, the inexperienced, the untutored, the marginal” (252). On the other hand, the singers retain opera’s elitism by upholding the redemptive powers of music and insisting on its mystery and sanctity.

中文翻译：

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波佩拉的小天使

摘要

Charlotte Church、Jackie Evancho 和 Amira Willighagen 等童星对神圣的强调对歌剧在当代流行文化中的意义产生了严重影响。一方面，这些歌手将歌剧带给大众，用劳伦斯·莱文的话说，反对“文化只为精英观众服务，不能来自年轻人、没有经验、没有受过教育、边缘”（252）。另一方面，歌手们坚持音乐的救赎力量，坚持音乐的神秘性和神圣性，从而保留了歌剧的精英主义。