Rebecca 蝴蝶梦

Written by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay， Rebecca is a new musical in German drawn from the classic Daphne Du Maurier novel of the same name about love and obsession reaching from beyond the grave. This romantic thriller tells us a knit story revolving around a temperamental （喜怒无常的） widower （鳏夫） Maxim De Winter， his naive new wife， a beautiful but common woman， and Mrs Danvers， who is the housekeeper of Maxim's Cornish estate （庄园）. In Monte Carlo， the two meet occasionally and fall in love with each other at the first sight. And then they get married， and move into Maxim' s English Estate. However， the young wife finds Mrs Danvers has never gotten over the death of Maxim's first wife， Rebecca， and shows continuous disrespect toward her. Later， Maxim becomes the prime （首要的） suspect， when Rebeca's boat with her dead body is found. Luckily， his wife stands by him and detects his ex-wife' s intrigue （阴谋） of turning suicide （自杀） into murder， so Maxim is cleared. However， they must face a terrible finale （结局） that their house is burned down by and with Mrs Danvers.

This mysterious musical is worth appreciating for its imagination reserved for spectators. What is important is to expose the ugly truth of the British upper class： hedonism （享乐主义）， intrigues， hypocrisy （伪善） among others. The play had its world premiere （首映） in 2006 at Raimund Theater in Vienna， Austria. Subsequent productions of Rebecca have also achieved their vast success， playing in Budapest， Hungary; Helsinki， Finland; Bucharest， Romania; Stuttgart， Germany; St. Gallen， Switzerland and at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo included.

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《蝴蝶梦》是一部德语音乐剧，是迈克·昆茨与希尔维斯特·勒威合力之作，取材于达夫妮·杜穆里埃的经典同名小说，讲述了一场超越死亡的爱恋。《蝴蝶梦》情节浪漫而惊悚，全剧以喜怒无常的鳏夫马克西姆·德·温特、他美丽天真却平凡的新婚妻子以及康沃尔庄园的管家丹弗斯夫人三人为主线展开剧情。在蒙特卡洛，两人偶然相遇，一见钟情，坠入爱河，结为连理，同返马克西姆的英国庄园。然而，年轻的妻子却发现丹弗斯夫人并没有从马克西姆的前妻丽贝卡死亡的阴霾中走出来，并常常对她无礼。后来，丽贝卡的船及她的尸体被人找到，马克西姆成了最大的嫌疑者。幸运的是，马克西姆的妻子相信他，并调查出是丽贝卡用计把自杀导演成他杀，由此，马克西姆才得以清白。只是最后，他们还得面对另一场梦魇：丹弗斯夫人点起大火，与曼德利庄园一起化为灰烬。

这是一部值得一看的音乐剧。神秘的色彩带给观众无尽的想象空间是该剧的特色所在，更为重要的是，音乐剧揭露了英国上层社会中的丑恶现象，诸如享乐至上、尔虞我诈和势利伪善。2006年，在奥地利维也纳的蒙德剧院，该剧开始全球首演。相继在世界其他地区的演出也同样取得了极大成功，这些地方包括匈牙利首都布达佩斯、芬兰的赫尔辛基、罗马尼亚的布加勒斯特、德国的斯图加特、瑞士的圣加仑，并且还在东京帝國剧院上演。