I've been successful in finding online libretto translations for many operas, but I have been struggling to find any sources for Herodiade and Fidelio. I don't currently have access to a library that has the libretti, so the internet is my only hope at the moment.
I figured that would be my first response.
That is a dead link that you put there.
And I have googled, a lot. As I said in the post, I have been unsuccessful in my searching. I should have been more clear and said that I was actually searching in search engines. I have found full libretti, but not English translations. Since I have been able to find translations for many other operas, I figured perhaps these ones are out there, but are just harder to find. I was posting here to see if someone maybe had them bookmarked or something.
Thanks anyway.
The link does not work for me from google for some reason, even with your fancy animated link. I went to the home page of operaguide and searched there and got it that way, so thanks, sort of. Any google magic for Hérodiade?
Sometimes I am annoyed by your snark but now I see you are using your powers for good.
Okay people. Not everything you need is going to be online for free. Some of it is. A lot of what is online is from dubious sources and riddled with errors. What is online for free and good you should be grateful for, but I'm sure you're not because other people are just here to do your work for you.
Believe it or not there was a time not all that long ago when we had to look up words in a foreign language dictionary and then chisel our own translations onto stone tablets for future use. It won't kill you and in fact it might teach you some of the useful things you need to learn to sing opera and art song like ummm the languages you are singing in.
Bravo PDW. Seriously people to lazy to find something that is at the top of a google search need to find another career. I can't imagine what that career would be since almost all of them require more initiative than this one shows.
Houndentenor
"Get the trash off the street and back on the stage where it belongs." -- Bette Midler
I mean... wow. And the search terms were "Fidelio libretto." Not something wacky like "Fidelio+libretto+must+be+in+Cockney+English+and+must+have+side+by+side+High+German." It was "Fidelio libretto."
What would happen if these people didn't have a computer?! If they had to live in my day - when we actually had to get to the library and DIG through the stacks and the drawers of 3X5 cards to find anything...
THEY WOULD DIE. Life would not exist anymore. Or at least, it certainly looks that way. Pays your money and gets your libretto for crying out loud! Wow. Okay, back to my wine.
I remember the same sorts of people. The number of lazy singers was astonishing. I remember being at a friend's apt when someone in our studio (I was lucky enough to have a top teacher even though I wasn't a performance major) the night before NATS to ask who wrote Juliette's Waltz I shit you not.
Houndentenor
"Get the trash off the street and back on the stage where it belongs." -- Bette Midler
she got her shit together a few years after undergrad, was a Met winner and had a good career until she got sick of living out of a suitcase, got married, had a kid and lived happily ever after (at least last I heard).
Houndentenor
"Get the trash off the street and back on the stage where it belongs." -- Bette Midler
With this particular student she was not dumb. Not by a longshot. But she was conditioned in her educational experience to study for the next test. She learned what she needed, regurgitated it at the test or jury and went on to the next thing. That's what our educational system requires but people who want to transcend that have to dig deeper.
Houndentenor
"Get the trash off the street and back on the stage where it belongs." -- Bette Midler
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