French Musicals is an independent and special category among all kinds of musicals — not only because of its language. Its music has a very strong rock and roll style, and the beat is often very sharp and strong. For example, Le bien qui fait mal in Mozart L’opera Rock and La gloire à mes genoux in Le rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black). Both songs give people a strong emotional impact, even if you can not understand the language or see the show can imagine the protagonist (singer)’s strong emotional struggles. According to the reading, there might also be synesthesia between “volume and size, volume and brightness, and pitch and size”. I don’t know if the synesthesia listener may see a grand scene.
Before school started I went to watch the Tikhiy Don(Silent Don). At the very front of the stage, there was an arrangement of a real river — the designer used the tin foil as container and created a river, which is the Don River. Audience in the front row even had to wear raincoats to avoid being spilled during the show. Through the real touch of water, the audience would have a strong sense of being on the scene and being by the ton river. Additionally, the Don appears in the drama as a symbol of the change of the Cossack, having this river could also bring the audiences back and having them experience the change of cruel history.
Stage Photo of Silent Don
Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/s-bxPcbxfprVwkpKv5i7GA
To be honest I am still confused about synesthesia since I have never experienced it myself. I wrote two examples because I think they are all very good instances of combining people’s different senses. What confuses me is that are these really representative examples of synesthesia or it’s because drama/musicals itself is a kind of art that has multiple forms of artistic expression, while both of them seldom use color — especially use color to express sound, like the colored hearing in the reading. The causal relationship between them is bewildering.