NOUN
- translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage
How To Use supertitle In A Sentence
- Here, Monostatos is a guy clad in a green spandex bodysuit (that is, he’s green-skinned), and when the same scene occurs, Papageno’s musing as translated in the supertitles is about green birds and green men. Zauberflöte 2005
- The singers are miked only for the dialogue, but their excellent diction makes the supertitles unnecessary, bringing out mad rhymes like "You very imperfect ablutioner" for "The Lord High Executioner. Taking Gilbert
- Conductor Alan Gilbert's approach was large-scale and Wagnerian, with an orchestral sound that stressed power rather than delicacy and often covered the voices, making it difficult to distinguish the text an English translation by Norman Tucker without relying on the supertitles. The Beauty of the Beasts
- The mainly Arabic dialogue is rendered in English supertitles, and some of the performances, including that of Fayez Kazak, who plays the Malvolio role, seem wildly broad, as if the actors don't trust the audience to understand them. NYT > Home Page
- As I laughed at the words and supertitles in David Henry Hwang's insightful play, I began to think about the tricky nature of translation. Bess Rowen: Lost and Gained In Translation
- Look at the opera house and supertitles.
- The translated dialogue of "Diciembre" is projected in English supertitles that do not adequately communicate the interactive flow of these captivating onstage protagonists. Variety.com
- Supertitles are the greatest advancement in opera production in the last 50 years.
- Indeed, depicting the three armies and their leaders, all speaking their own languages supertitles essential is a complicated task, better suited to film than stage. Stifled Voices
- This is what I thought as I watched the action and the supertitles in Chinglish. Bess Rowen: Lost and Gained In Translation