Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Open perspectives
5. Opera and intercultural musicology as modes of translation 13
6. Surtitles and the multi-semiotic balance 35
7. Tradition and transgression 53
8. Across genres and media
9. When Mei Lanfang encountered Fei Mu 75
10. Fluid borders: From Carmen to The Car Man . Bourne’s ballet in the light of post-translation 95
11. Aesthetics of translation 117
12. Text and context
13. Translations, adaptations or rewritings? 135
14. The voice of the translator 159
15. “Ordne die Reih’n” 175
16. The migration of Madama Butterfly 195
17. From text to stage
18. The intertwined nature of music, language and culture in Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle 219
19. Translating Wagner’s Versmelodie 243
20. Operetta in Turkey 271
21. Libretto translation revisited
22. Two English translations of Jaroslav Kvapil’s Rusalka libretto 291
23. Intertextuality in nineteenth-century Italian librettos: To translate or not to translate? 315
24. Multilingual libretti across linguistic borders and translation modes 337
25. About the contributors 359
26. Index 365