Christopher Webber <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Many prefer to watch the stage without having these dumbing distractions
>foisted on them.  Except when they are unintentionally comic, which is
>often, they are a mere nuisance invented to pacify the terminally lazy.

Knowing nothing of Wagner's operas, I may be mistaken about the exact
scenario; but I seem to recall seeing a production on TV once where a
slain dragon's dying groan was translated as "Egad!"

Krishan Oberoi
Providence, RI  USA