... scenario rather than someone's 'witty commentary', 'deconstruction', or 'reimagining,' is an excellent way to approach Wagner. Failing that, and it seems unlikely that rural France will offer many opportunities when London and New York do not, try DVDs. The Syberberg DVD is at least watchable, and the subtitles can be read while watching the action, unlike the titles opera houses now use instead of the audience's language. Good luck.

... singing voice rather than the spoken voice, and the music is literally background music. That's a good point. But that begs the question: what is there to like in these when _listening_ to them? The spoken voice is basically recitative, and it does get boring after a while. (Watching is, of course, different, especially if you understand the text or have subtitles.) Kirk -- Read my blog, Kirkville http://www.mcelhearn.com

... brain on cruise control. It wasn't easy to follow at times, which I think could be attributed to inadequate subtitles when people did talk. But there were no "names" in the film either, just a group of Russian actors who ... in the audience, as they were probably getting more out of what was being said than what the subtitles were telling the rest of us who don't know Russian. Such are the drawbacks of dealing with foreign language ...

... two nights was in the original Russian with English subtitles. While the use of subtitles was flawed (they appeared "burned in," and I felt they were abbreviated compared...one drawback was that because this version was subtitled it made it hard to watch these images and try to read the subtitles, which were practically hugging the bottom of the...of what was being said than what the subtitles were telling the rest of us who ...

...with many models of Digital TV sets. IÂ’m trying to Keep It Simply Simple (KISS). ;) This is why you see .ts files in those hdtv groups. (This also keeps multiple languages intact, for audio and for Closed-Captions/subtitles.) I don't get a digital stream, except the channels 100+ which have to be converted to analog by the cable box, I assume, for output via the S-Video (the best available on the box). Still, those channels on ...

... Mysteries. I could understand all the men and the woman with a Scottish accent, but it took me most of the programme to "tune in" to the speech of the younger English women. I could have used subtitles. Speaking of new shows, BBCAmerica has recently added Avalon's "Not Going Out". http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/313/index.jsp "Coupling" it ain't. What bothered me about this program (BrE sic) is ...

... two nights was in the original Russian with English subtitles. While the use of subtitles was flawed (they appeared "burned in," and I felt they were abbreviated compared ... one drawback was that because this version was subtitled it made it hard to watch these images and try to read the subtitles, which were practically hugging the bottom of the ... of what was being said than what the subtitles were telling the rest of us who don't...

... ON THREE LEGS Glenn Goulds Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano. By Katie Hafner. Illustrated. 259 pp. Bloomsbury. $24.99. The real hero of Katie Hafner's book "A Romance on Three Legs" is not, as the subtitle suggests, the pianist Glenn Gould, or even the piano he was obsessed with, but a nearly blind man named Verne Edquist, who confirms that behind every great pianist is a great tuner. Hafner, a former correspondent for The New ...

... ON THREE LEGS Glenn Goulds Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano. By Katie Hafner. Illustrated. 259 pp. Bloomsbury. $24.99. The real hero of Katie Hafner's book "A Romance on Three Legs" is not, as the subtitle suggests, the pianist Glenn Gould, or even the piano he was obsessed with, but a nearly blind man named Verne Edquist, who confirms that behind every great pianist is a great tuner. Hafner, a former correspondent for The New ...

... 'Open DVD' button to load the DVD. Set the profile to be iPhone 480*320 mpeg-4 video which is the default DVD video quality. 4. Click around in the DVD's menu to set up DVD playback as you like, select the subtitle and audio sound tracks etc, then begin to play the movie through the software by click the play button. 5. The following window will pop up. Here, you can rename 'Title Name', set 'Save Path' and output quality, then click ...