stackyFACTSBecause pretending to intimately understand three hours of high-pitched 18th-century Italian is completely exhausting.
Because pretending to intimately understand three hours of high-pitched 18th-century Italian is completely exhausting. To heavily modernize the art form and attract broader audiences, opera houses introduced 'surtitles' or 'supertitles' in the 1980s. These are highly visible screens suspended directly above the proscenium arch that continuously project the translated lyrics in real-time, finally allowing the masses to realize the plot is usually just a terrible misunderstanding.
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