One of the hardest tasks for theatre companies is to find a way to make classics of the dramatic literature accessible to modern audiences. Often, specific problems arise with regard to crafting translations from French, German, Russian, Italian and other languages so that a word or phrase translated from its original cultural context can be understood by today's theatregoers. For many years, opera companies would try to perform works like Johann Strauss II's 1874 operetta, Die Fledermaus, and h...
One of the hardest tasks for theatre companies is to find a way to make classics of the dramatic literature accessible to modern audiences. Often, specific problems arise with regard to crafting translations from French, German, Russian, Italian and other languages so that a word or phrase translated from its original cultural context can be understood by today's theatregoers. For many years, opera companies would try to perform works like Johann Strauss II's 1874 operetta, Die Fledermaus, and h...
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