The Source Text of Opera Surtitles

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 13 Sep 2004 Canada Publisher:Consortium EruditJournal:Meta, volume 49, pages 89-97 (issn: 0026-0452, eissn: 1492-1421,

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Authors: Virkkunen, Riitta;

doi: 10.7202/009024ar

The Source Text of Opera Surtitles

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Abstract

This article discusses the source text and reading situation of opera surtitles. It introduces opera from a multimodal viewpoint and differentiates between the dramatic text and the stage interpretation. With two versions of surtitles, it approaches two different surtitling strategies, the one that concentrates on the libretto and the other that focusses on the particular stage interpretation. As a result, the article asks if we should consider the stage interpretation to be the only appropriate source text of surtitles.

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Canada

Related Organizations

Tampere University
Finland

Keywords

opera, multisemiotic text, surtitling, multimodality, libretto

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