Jon Johanning wrote:

>Thanks to Walter Meyer for supplying an English version of the prologue
>to Bluebeard's Castle.  But I was somewhat puzzled by the evidently inept
>English produced by someone with a name indicating that he is very likely
>a native English speaker.  It looks more like a version by a non-native
>speaker.

The score in fact gives two English translations of the prologue.  The
one you are curious about is, I believe, a literal translation of the
Hungarian.  The other is a more idiomatic, colloquial translation.

Bruce