26 Mar 2007

WNO's 'Walkure' Takes Flight

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/25/AR2007032501220.html

By Tim Page [Washington Post, 26 March 2007]

There is a very simple reason why the operas of Richard Wagner have become so extraordinarily popular over the past couple of decades, namely, the introduction of projected, line-by-line translations of the words the characters sing as they are performing.