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Chapter 269 The Phantom of the Opera
When leaving the Hamamatsu Music Hall, the Japanese media reporters who heard the news almost made Liao Yuan and others stay in this land forever.

After evading the long guns and short guns, the group returned to the hotel where they were stationed and observed the video that had just been shot.

Obviously, during this trip to Japan, "Love Travel" was a pleasant surprise when I met Liao Yuan.

Several cameras completely recorded the entire competition process. After witnessing all this, the director Qu Liangwei was so excited that he spat out: "Just this, this video tape, it can definitely be a special documentary!"

"Ms. Liao's performance is amazing, I have already thought of the title, Wife Protector's first shot!"

"No, no, it should be called 'Destroy you, what has nothing to do with you!'"

"I laughed to death, you didn't see Tokugawa Seimei's desperate eyes! My God, it's so distressing!"

"This incident reminds us that a mountain is higher than a mountain, so don't act arrogantly..."

Liao Yuan took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Actually, we are wrong. Doing this is no less than ruining someone's reputation. After all, it is an internationally renowned event. If it is so noisy, it will have a bad reputation."

"That's not your fault, Mr. Liao, it's that Tokugawa Seimei who is too arrogant, insisting on mocking all the audience!"

"Yes, if I had Mr. Liao's ability, I would have beaten this grandson to the ground long ago, and even said that he refused to accept it and came to fight. Pooh!"

"The rules of this competition, as well as the judges, are obviously biased towards Japan. Ms. Lin Weiyin is at a disadvantage!"

A group of people chattered, and soon, Lin Weiyin's team returned to the hotel.

Liao Yuan's shot did not change the final result of the competition, Lin Weiyin still only won No. She didn't feel sorry, this kind of thing may have been used to her for a long time, the only surprise was this time...

Lin Weiyin secretly glanced at Liao Yuan.

Liao Yuan is holding a dumbbell and exercising his biceps.

In the absence of a camera to follow up, Liao Yuan obviously changed into a different person. There was almost no interaction with her. Perfunctory.

A hint of disappointment flashed in Lin Weiyin's eyes.

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After the trip to Japan, the "Love Travel" team returned to China and immediately edited the previous shooting content.

The entire Hamamatsu International Piano Competition is fully capable of supporting the content of the two episodes.

This caused the originally written script to be temporarily put on the next recording, and because of this unexpected incident, the performance script between the man and the woman had to be revised, trying to increase the sense of CP between the two, at least for the audience to watch The hearts of young girls are bursting.

On the other hand, as June approaches, the Tchaikovsky competition is about to start.

Peter Layton, deputy secretary-general of the Geneva Competition Federation, also sent an invitation letter to Liao Yuan in advance, inviting Liao Yuan to go to Russia to serve as the judge of this Tchaikovsky Competition.

At the same time, the performance video submitted by Pei Hongyu, a small advancer of Xiaohuangyu, also passed the qualification review of the Tchaikovsky Competition Organizing Committee and received the invitation for the competition.

The two will go to Russia to participate in the competition on June NO.14, and the competition will be held for about a week.

During this time, the Kyoto Opera House has been preparing for the official release of "The Phantom of the Opera" for nearly a year.

Referring to Liao Yuan's ideas, Zhou Yijun invited a large number of ordinary audiences to test screenings, and found a new high-pitched actress at the Central Conservatory of Music. Her appearance and figure were all online, and she replaced the previous elderly actress. After the screening, the audience generally responded well.

After several months of preparation, "The Phantom of the Opera" officially appeared at the Kyoto Opera House in mid-May.

And it got a huge response on the first day of its release.

In just one week, "The Phantom of the Opera" has become the most popular opera in the entire capital by virtue of word-of-mouth.

And the theme song of the same name in "The Phantom of the Opera", also accompanied by the popularity of the opera, quickly became popular and spread rapidly on the Internet.

Soon, people discovered that the script and theme song of "The Phantom of the Opera" were all written by Liao Yuan.

Liao Yuan has been very popular recently, and naturally he has a lot of attention, so many media and experts have studied "The Phantom of the Opera" one after another.

The response to the concert was generally good.

But the script of "The Phantom of the Opera" itself has been complained by almost all experts.

"Is this still Liao Yuan who wrote "Signal", "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and "Tuner"?"

"Disappointment, huge disappointment!"

"The plot is simple and straightforward, with no depth at all!"

"Is this a ghostwriter? It must be a ghostwriter!"

"Compared to Liao Yuan's previous works, the quality is indeed a bit unsatisfactory..."

The plot of "The Phantom of the Opera" is indeed too straightforward.

The whole mainly tells the story of a love triangle, which is not very attractive in film and television works, but if it is presented in a stage play, the charm of "Phantom of the Opera" obviously still exists.

The sold-out performance of this work at the Kyoto Opera House is the strongest evidence.

But this obviously does not meet the expectations of netizens, especially some audiences who have never seen the concert at all, and feel that the works I don't like-that must be rubbish.

However, it turns out that over time, "The Phantom of the Opera" has gradually demonstrated its huge influence.

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Delia Lane is a reporter for "National Geographic" magazine in the United States. Due to work reasons, she often travels to the Huaxia Capital Branch.

On this day, on the flight, she read the synopsis of "The Phantom of the Opera" through a magazine.

The love triangle in the story, as well as a series of plots resulting from jealousy, pursuit, and murder, interested Delia.

Most importantly, by downloading the theme song of "The Phantom of the Opera", she felt the tension and moving parts of the plot in the lyrics, which moved her heart and felt the extraordinaryness of this musical.

So after getting off the plane and finishing her work, Delia couldn't wait to go to the opera house to buy tickets.

However, she was told by the conductor that the tickets were sold out, which made Delia very distressed.

Because after today, she will fly back to the United States again.

If you want to come to Huaxia again, you may have to wait until a month later.

Just when she was distressed, a man wearing a baseball cap and a waist bag sneaked up to Delia, poked her on the shoulder, and said mysteriously: "Comrade, please Tickets? You can watch it immediately after buying it, and don’t miss a minute of excitement!"

"What?" Delia looked at him suspiciously.

Seeing this, the man hastily explained with his body language and gestures. He also took out a poster of "The Phantom of the Opera" and a ticket, and stretched out a finger: "One thousand!"

Delia understands, scalpers!

There are also scalpers in the United States, which were transformed from early "ticket brokers". They are extremely professional in all aspects, and they do not give the police any evidence.

There is really no one who sells scalpers so blatantly!
"Five hundred." Delia opened the wallet and said in blunt Chinese.

"Five hundred is not enough, comrade, you are too hard to bargain, how can you cut it in half, at least eight hundred!"

"Six hundred!"

"Eight hundred, not even a penny less!"

In the end, the transaction was closed at 700 yuan.

After the ticket dealer left happily, the conductor who had witnessed this scene from the beginning to the end, when he took the scalper ticket, said suddenly: "Silly girl, our opera house has a big bargain, and the ticket price is as low as 80." , the highest is only four hundred and ninety yuan, and the position of your ticket is [-] yuan."

Delia blinked.

After entering the theater, "The Phantom of the Opera" has just begun.

Delia took a seat according to the number, and finally found her seat in the corner of the second floor.

Fortunately, it didn't affect the viewing. Delia didn't care about these things, and began to enjoy the opera happily.

Because of frequent business trips to Huaxia, she has also studied Chinese for a while, but because Chinese is too difficult to speak, after two years of study, she can only communicate in short greetings, but listening to some simple daily exchanges is still not enough. questionable.

The straightforwardness of the lines in "The Phantom of the Opera" almost exactly matches her Chinese vocabulary.

She watched the scenes without blinking:

In an opera house in Paris, strange things happened frequently. The original leading actress was almost killed, and a creepy and illusory male voice appeared in the theater.

This voice comes from the "ghost" who lives in the underground labyrinth of the theater. He fell in love with the actress Manni, taught her to sing secretly, and helped her get the position of the heroine, but Manni fell in love with the theater manager Song Zhexuan, which caused a lot of trouble. A series of plots such as jealousy, chase, and murder.

In the end, the "ghost" found that his love for Manni had surpassed his personal possessiveness, so he freed Manni, left the cloak and mask behind, and disappeared into the dark underground maze alone.

The entire opera lasted for more than two hours, during which Delia never left her seat, and was attracted by the rough fate of the hero and heroine and the thrilling actions every second.

It wasn't until the end of the whole play that the theme song of "The Phantom of the Opera" came to her ears, and Delia came back to her senses.

She felt her scalp go numb, and there was great excitement in her heart.

The entire "Phantom of the Opera" does not see the slightest bit of oriental cultural heritage. This is a musical based on Western culture!
Although the story is simple and does not have much suspense, it has a series of musical elements such as jealousy, ethics, murder, and pursuit that attract Westerners' attention.

"Good work!"

"America needs you!"

Delia quickly left the Kyoto Opera House.

Musicals are very popular in the United States. There is a Broadway Avenue in the United States. The street is more than 20 kilometers long. It is extremely huge, and it is dedicated to American dramas and musicals. It can be seen that the popularity of American opera culture.

And Delia's father was the owner of several opera houses on Broadway!

A week later, Zhou Yijun of the Kyoto Opera House unexpectedly received a potbellied Yankee and invited him to watch the entire performance of "The Phantom of the Opera".

More than two hours later, the Yankee asked Zhou Yijun with glowing eyes, "How much?"

"What?" Zhou Yijun froze for a moment.

"How much? I want to buy the copyright of this opera!"

The Yankee said domineeringly: "I am Tony from Broadway. If you have been to America and Broadway, you should know who I am!"

Damn you know who you are!
Zhou Yijun was a little hesitant, first he found an excuse to deal with the other party, and then asked someone to find out the identity of Broadway Tony.

Soon, the results of the investigation came out. Tony Lane, a tycoon of American theater, had seven opera houses under his name, all of which were stationed on Broadway, a long street that was more than 20 kilometers long, and he also owned many famous opera houses under his name. copyright.

This shocked Zhou Yijun.

He can't make a decision, and in fact he has no right to make a decision, because the copyright of this musical is in the hands of Liao Yuan.

Soon, Liao Yuan received news from Zhou Yijun and had a meeting with Tony Lane.

When he learned that "The Phantom of the Opera" was written by the young man in front of him, Tony tried to open his eyes wide, "Hello, Liao, I may have seen you, yes, I have definitely seen you, I am very familiar with your appearance."

Liao Yuan was surprised, and said with a smile, "Really?"

"Of course!"

Tony couldn't figure it out, and didn't talk nonsense, he patted the "Phantom of the Opera" poster on the desktop: "Liao, you should know that this kind of opera can only flourish in Europe and the United States. In the whole drama, apart from actors and names, In addition, there is no oriental element at all, I guess, you must be a young man who likes to understand British culture very much! Because your understanding of British culture in this opera is very deep, and we, the United States and Britain, have cultural interlinkages , I believe that under my operation, this opera will develop into a giant, and it will lead us to the peak of opera!"

Tony is a person with great leadership ability, at least in a few words, he spread all the characteristics of "Phantom of the Opera" and its future in front of Liao Yuan.

No one is unmoved.

"How much do you think it is worth?" Liao Yuan asked with a smile.

Tony was stunned, but still said: "At least one billion dollars! Of course, I mean the box office!"

Liao Yuan smiled. In his previous life, "The Phantom of the Opera" swept over 30 billion US dollars at the box office. It was almost the most successful musical. However, without the ability to predict the box office of [-] billion US dollars, it is obvious that Tony is very optimistic about this The success of the musical in the future.

Next to him, Zhou Yijun was shocked when he heard the figure of one billion US dollars.

"Liao Yuan, don't you know liars?"

Zhou Yijun approached Liao Yuan and asked in a low voice.

Liao Yuan asked; "Have you investigated his identity?"

Zhou Yijun nodded and said, "Investigated, but the figure he said is too bluffing. I can't believe it. If one billion US dollars is converted into RMB, it won't be more than 60 billion at the box office?"

Liao Yuan heard the words and looked at Tony: "I heard you have seven opera houses on Broadway?"

Tony looked proud: "Yes, this is the record of our three generations. In the heyday of a hundred years ago, our Ryan family owned more than 20 opera houses on Broadway!"

Liao Yuan smiled and said, "That's quite powerful."

Tony looked at Liao Yuan and said with some discouragement: "Liao, although we are in decline now, it's not really that we don't have strength. We have rich operating experience, but we lack a stunning work. Broadway never treats any one badly." Excellent work, and "The Phantom of the Opera" is the key factor that can make our Lane family shine again!"

"Let me think."

Liao Yuan stood up and said, "I'll give you an answer in three days, OK?"

Tony looked a bit embarrassed, but he still said: "Can you guarantee to cooperate with me first? Don't worry, the price is not a problem, we Americans are very generous."

"Sorry, this can be difficult."

Liao Yuan said: "You wait for my news!"
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