Think Translating Opera For Surtitles Is Tricky? Try Putting 'Porgy And Bess' Into German Or Spanish by Artsjournal1

It's not just a matter of slangy terms like "happy dust" (German and Spanish have their own words for cocaine). Finding equivalents for the contractions and non-standard grammar in the libretto's "Negro dialect" (as the Gershwins and Heyward called it) is challenging in itself, let alone when you only have 72 characters per screen. Here's […]

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