Opera in translation : unity and diversity / edited by Adriana Serban, Kelly Kar Yue Chan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Kelly Kar Yue, editor.

Serban, Adriana, editor.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; Volume 153.

Benjamins Translation Library ; Volume 153

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"This volume covers aspects of opera translation within the Western world and in Asia, as well as some of opera's many travels between continents, countries, languages and cultures-and also between genres and media. The concept of 'adaptation' is a thread running through the sixteen contributions, which encompass a variety of composers, operas, periods and national traditions. Sung translation, libretto translation, surtitling, subtitling are discussed from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Exploration of aspects such as the relationship between language and music, multimodality, intertextuality, cultural and linguistic transfer, multilingualism, humour, identity and stereotype, political ideology, the translator's voice and the role of the audience is driven by a shared motivation: a love of opera and of the beauty it has never ceased to provide through the centuries, and admiration for the people who write, compose, perform, direct, translate, or otherwise contribute to making the joy of opera a part of our lives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction

Open perspectives

Opera and intercultural musicology as modes of translation

Surtitles and the multi-semiotic balance

Tradition and transgression

Across genres and media

When Mei Lanfang encountered Fei Mu

Fluid borders: From Carmen to The Car Man . Bourne’s ballet in the light of post-translation

Aesthetics of translation

Text and context

Translations, adaptations or rewritings?

The voice of the translator

“Ordne die Reih’n”

The migration of Madama Butterfly

From text to stage

The intertwined nature of music, language and culture in Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

Translating Wagner’s Versmelodie

Operetta in Turkey

Libretto translation revisited

Two English translations of Jaroslav Kvapil’s Rusalka libretto

Intertextuality in nineteenth-century Italian librettos: To translate or not to translate?

Multilingual libretti across linguistic borders and translation modes

About the contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.