Captions above the stageSourced
Opera captions came from
a film subtitler.
After decades subtitling films, Sonya Friedman tried projecting translated words above the stage at a Canadian opera performance in 1983. Audiences could follow the foreign-language story without looking away from the performers.
Just look a little higher
to follow the song.
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Sonya Friedman (translator) · Wikimedia contributors
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Reviewed: 2026-10-01