La traduction du livret d’opéra vers l’anglais : un enjeu national et/ou « méta-opératique »
This article raises the issue of translation in the construction of a national operatic repertoire. As is well-known, the collocation “English opera” could occasionally refer, in particular in the nineteenth century, not to a work composed in Britain by a British composer, but to an opera actually s...
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| description | This article raises the issue of translation in the construction of a national operatic repertoire. As is well-known, the collocation “English opera” could occasionally refer, in particular in the nineteenth century, not to a work composed in Britain by a British composer, but to an opera actually sung to English words. This diachronic examination of several translations into English clearly shows a tendency towards the Anglicisation of continental opera, thus inscribed into the British political, sociological and cultural contexts of the time. Conversely, the English versions of the mainstream repertoire also shows a strong leaning towards a sort of self-referential discourse which, although it does transcend the purely contextual aspects of operatic translation, paradoxically points to the ephemeral nature of the exercise. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bac80d08a2ff4f6ba9b5c8e2278cb5952024-02-13T14:36:46ZengPresses universitaires de RennesRevue LISA1762-61532006-06-014203610.4000/lisa.2060La traduction du livret d’opéra vers l’anglais : un enjeu national et/ou « méta-opératique »Pierre DegottThis article raises the issue of translation in the construction of a national operatic repertoire. As is well-known, the collocation “English opera” could occasionally refer, in particular in the nineteenth century, not to a work composed in Britain by a British composer, but to an opera actually sung to English words. This diachronic examination of several translations into English clearly shows a tendency towards the Anglicisation of continental opera, thus inscribed into the British political, sociological and cultural contexts of the time. Conversely, the English versions of the mainstream repertoire also shows a strong leaning towards a sort of self-referential discourse which, although it does transcend the purely contextual aspects of operatic translation, paradoxically points to the ephemeral nature of the exercise.https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/2060translationoperaNational IssueMeta-Operatic |
| spellingShingle | Pierre Degott La traduction du livret d’opéra vers l’anglais : un enjeu national et/ou « méta-opératique » Revue LISA translation opera National Issue Meta-Operatic |
| title | La traduction du livret d’opéra vers l’anglais : un enjeu national et/ou « méta-opératique » |
| title_full | La traduction du livret d’opéra vers l’anglais : un enjeu national et/ou « méta-opératique » |
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| title_short | La traduction du livret d’opéra vers l’anglais : un enjeu national et/ou « méta-opératique » |
| title_sort | la traduction du livret d opera vers l anglais un enjeu national et ou meta operatique |
| topic | translation opera National Issue Meta-Operatic |
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