Here I am in St. Louis, awaiting with enormous excitement my premiere as an opera librettist, or rather: as a translator of an opera libretto, or, to be even more precise: as the translator of the book scenes of a fairly loquacious opera. This is much too much beating around the bush. The thing I am so excitedly awaiting is the premiere of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, an Isaac Mizrahi production for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis featuring choreography by John Heginbotham and conducted by Jane Glover. The English-language libretto is a sort of after-the-fact collaboration with Andrew Porter, who wrote a wonderful singing translation of the opera back in the 1980s. And now, for this new production, Mizrahi hired me to help him update the opera’s feel with a new translation of the book scenes incorporating the songs from Porter’s translation, in some cases tweaked to fit their new context. Mizrahi asked me to do something “minimal, Beckett-like,” and the result is perhaps more an adaptation than a straight-up translation, with many of the scenes by Mozart’s librettist buddy Emanuel Schickaneder trimmed down to the pith. Research for the job involved watching some old movies from the Hollywood Glamour era and a field-trip to the Masonic Temple on W. 23rd St. In our version, the Queen of the Night is secretly the heroine. I was relieved not to have to translate all the sung parts my first time out of the gate as an opera translator, since I know from my composer-sister, who has written a great deal for voice, how technical and complicated it is to produce singable lyrics. And in rehearsals here in St. Louis certain lines of the sung libretto turned out to be problematic for some of the singers: certain combinations of vowels at certain pitches can be tricky, and the particular combinations that pose difficulties appear to vary from singer to singer. I learned so much by watching the rehearsals. And I was moved to sit down and write a little something about my general take on the opera and the ways I tweaked the libretto in deference to its new twenty-first century context. This turned into an essay that’s just been published on the Public Books blog. I thought it would be a shame not to share it with Translationista’s readers too, so here it is: just follow this link. And if you live in or near St. Louis, I hope you’ll come out to see the production. It features gorgeous singing, stunning dancing and a set containing (at least so I’m told) 100 lbs. of glitter.
Susan Bernofsky
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- 2011 Best Translated Book Awards Announced
- What I Found in Translation at the Guggenheim
- An Abecedarian
- Translation at the PEN World Voices Festival
- MLA Embraces Translation as Scholarship
- Guggenheim Forum on Translation
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011
- Is Greek Poetry All Greek to You?
- Un/Translatables Conference at U Penn
- A Postscript on Independent Publishers
- Visitation Longlisted for an Indie Booksellers Choice Award
- Reading with My Hero
- ► March (12)
- How to Review Translations
- Visitation is a 2011 BTBA Finalist!
- J. Hillis Miller on Benjamin on Translation (cont'd)
- Translator for a Day: A Workshop for Beginners
- Lecture: On the Translations of Lorca
- J. Hillis Miller on Benjamin on Translation
- Translators Love Libraries
- Lush Breezes
- Do You Speak Tranglish?
- So What Is 'Voice' Anyhow?
- What I Learned at Bridge #1
- 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, New York
- ► February (13)
- Bridge Series Launches in NYC
- Big Fellowships to Attend ALTA
- Featured on NPR!
- Announcing the QUILL Translation Award
- Queens in Love with Literature (QUILL)
- Queens College MFA Deadline Now March 1
- Festival Neue Literatur This Weekend!
- When Translators Do Math
- Russian Poetry and Self-Translation
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Translation at the AWP
- A Translated Book is Amazon's Current Bestseller
- A Beautiful New Review of Visitation
- ► January (11)
- Computer Programming and Translation
- Bilingualism in the Kitchen
- New Directions Tops the Best Translated Book Award 2011 Fiction Longlist
- When Book Reviewers Ignore Translators
- Talking Translation at Ugly Duckling
- Festival Neue Literatur
- The Architecture of Translation
- Collaborative translation = phone sex?
- Retranslating the German Classics
- Translation and Procrastination
- The Language for the 2011 Sontag Prize? Italian!
- ►2010 (36)
- ► December (19)
- NPR Features Translation as Artistic Partnership
- Translation and Intimacy
- Christmas Rebus
- Robert Walser Died on Christmas Day
- Guest-blogging at Words Without Borders
- Two Three More "Best-of-2010" Listings
- 2010 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize Goes to Breon Mitchell
- Banff International Literary Translation Centre Now Accepting Applications
- Christian Hawkey's Beating Heart
- Two Translation Awards from the Academy of American Poets
- Translation and Memory
- Two New Reviews of Visitation
- Translationista Under Construction Today
- Translationista Turns One (Month)
- Translation Challenge of the Day: Eiweiß
- Reading at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, Thursday Dec. 9
- The FT Picks Visitation
- Paris: A Translator’s-Eye View
- Thank you John Ashbery
- ► November (17)
- Queens College MFA Program Open House Dec. 7
- New Translation Prize for Japanese, Dec. 1 Deadline
- Paris, Ho!
- Inventory - A New Journal of Translation
- A Dialogue about Translation (in German)
- Rave Reviews for Visitation
- Ammiel Alcalay Recommends Translating Responsibly
- What Do Translators Like to Read?
- Translator, Meet Thy Author!
- Presenting the American Literary Translators Association
- Why You Should Apply for a PEN Translation Fund Award
- Peter Cole on Translation and Silence
- PEN Online Translation Slam
- Susan Sontag Translation Prize Seminar
- MFA Programs in Creative Writing and Literary Translation
- A New Prize for Young Translators from the German
- A blog about translation
- ► December (19)