Jon Schild wrote:
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> 
> Richard Fallstrom wrote:
>> In article , Jon Schild
>>  wrote:
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>>> I know that translations of operas are often extremely bad.
>>
>> I can't say so as I have heard both Wagner's Ring cycle in English and
>> performed in Donetzetti's Elixir of Love in English.
>>
>> Rick (sometimes is a GentleRF and sometimes is not)
> 
> 
> Did you read both the English and Italian words in Elixir of Love?  In 
> the 15 or so years I have been in an opera chorus, I have seen only two 
> outcomes of such attempts.  Either the translation is such bad English 
> no one would use it (apparently not true in that case) or it is more of 
> a rewrite than a translation.

And there was the hapless translator who thought that Cio Cio San's 
uncle was /named/ "Bonzo".
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