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Ep. 83 The Merry Widow By Franz Lehar

Opera For Everyone

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The Importance of Diction in Opera

I don't actually think this translation is changing it the meaning that much my marriage is sacred to me I am a respectable wife. As we go along there are going to be different translations of the titles of some of the songs and some of the words as we go along but the fundamentals of the story are certainly intact. It's sort of strange faux historical I did I did probably receive pronunciation isn't it? But they're speaking clearly even when they sing so that you can understand without the the cert titles when you see itYeah or the subtitles when you watch it yeah because it's meant to be understood more easily. Well and you have to fit the score exactly. Yeah Exactly and I don

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