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Ep. 83 The Merry Widow By Franz Lehar

Opera For Everyone

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The Different Versions of Marriage

The dialogue portions which is over 50% of the words that you hear when you go to see this show they can be quite different. And so the songs are going to have less variety although you can translate I am a respectable wife to my marriage is sacred to me but the translator must have or who wrote this version must have just decided to alter it. Well and this I think gives us an opportunity to talk about translation in general for the operator, at least this operator because I actually spent quite a lot of time trying to make sense of putting these two CDs together.

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