Who knew subtitles could sing opera?
Watching an opera (or a film) in its original language allows you to enjoy the story as its author and performers intended it. Of course, that only makes sense if you understand what is being said, which is why subtitles exist.
They are a necessity, but reading them can draw your eyes toward a small screen and away from what’s happening on stage. MASARY Studios, a multimedia design collective based in Boston, just made subtitles much less annoying, merging them with the action and turning them into a another character on stage.
The so-called supertitles technology was recently demonstrated in a production of Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde), a staging of Gustav Mahler’s music directed by Anne Bogart at Boston Lyric Opera.
"The supertitles were projected on the house-left brick wall, which was native to the theater space itself," Sam Okerstrom-Lang, cofounder of MASARY Studios...
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