so I'm like. ok. maybe I watch on youtube with copy of libretto. if german and english side-by-side easy enough to just read, I have two monitors anyway
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(yes this is all to get around paying for a dvd. no I am not paying for a dvd, after over a decade of piracy it feels viscerally wrong)
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german/english libretto apparently exists in print but not online. the closest I can find is this unreadable monstrosity on internetarchivepic.twitter.com/S0WhT391Lt
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HOWEVER I did find this very nice setting in german/spanish and I can read spanish enough to more or less follow along so I might do thatpic.twitter.com/ykEmK5tD9w
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it is just very funny to me how much effort I am putting into this
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gf has remarked I seem to create for myself a remarkable number of problems that would be solved by learning several european languages
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do you even need the libretto if you've seen it before? opera houses having subtitles is a fairly recent development
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in spirit I think a lot is lost without understanding the words and personally it'd just be boring to me if I couldn't follow
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subtitles are fairly new but the time period in between "subtitles" and "the type of people who can go to operas are expected to speak these languages" is pretty short
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