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• Captioning differs from the surtitles that have helped popularise opera in the US.
• This production of Bizet's hot-blooded opera is to be sung in French with English surtitles and features a new set by Felix Bessonov based on the city of Seville.
• Conceding the point, many opera houses nowadays always flash surtitles above the proscenium.
• Projected over several screens, the surtitles use different fonts, with a comic-book typeface for the larger-than-life characters.
• This production of Bizet's hot-blooded opera is to be sung in French with English surtitles and features a new set by Felix Bessonov based on the city of Seville.
• The libretto was re-written for raciness and local flavour and sung in English with surtitles, which seems redundant but was surprisingly handy.
• Also, the surtitles (presented in English, Vietnamese and French) appear to the extreme left of the stage, making a chore of following the action and understanding the dialogue.
• There are surtitles, of course, but in the quick, conversational repartee of the Prologue, the machine has trouble keeping up.
• Luckily the orchestra, under Lothar Koenigs, were playing so adroitly that the slipped dialogue and consequent collapse of surtitles in the prologue hardly mattered, expertly brought back on course by the nimble conductor. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
• Now many, if not most, opera houses use surtitles.