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Martin Walker wrote: > In Europe you get surtitles, Ken, so you can check on what they're supposed to be singing. I look some of the time - they help when the Regie is particularly obscure and you have never heard the opera before. I don't personally think the libretto is theory, exactly - & I've never seen anybody (in Europe) reading a libretto by flashlight, even when there were no surtitles. > No one does. I was making a desperate effort at a comparison. Oh well. We have titling here too, sub- and sur-. But way back when if you didn't know the basic libretto outlines, it could be a long day. Easter Sunday 1960 I sat through *Parsifal* without knowing squat about what was going on. Who was on the cross again?.... k