The Fat Lady Sings

[tvordlj]

Ok, i just found out that they now do opera with subtitles. Eh? Someone standing on the side of the stage with big cue cards, tossing them over their shoulder into the orchestra pic like Bob Dylan? No apparently it looks like a Powerpoint presentation, a slide show sort of. I was picturing that running digital banner. Ok now this is Toronto, by the way. Probably the more traditional Royal Opera houses of Europe would eschew such atrocities. And while i'd like to go to an opera and know what they're actually saying rather than just the gist of the storyline, it does seem rather sacreligious to me lol

Comments

[abishag.livejournal.com]

I believe here they sometimes have *surtitles* running over the top of the proscenium arch.
I agree that might detract from the general spectacle and experience. Perhaps better to take a look at the libretto before you go.