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