Opera Surtitles for hire by Opera Companies worldwide.
As a dramaturg I translate surtitles (or prepare English surtitles for operas sung in English) both for opera and for spoken theatre. I use various different surtitling systems, including Naotek, Focon, PowerPoint, Polycomp and a number of others. Most of these work by connecting a laptop computer to a screen, so that the operator can cue the surtitles from the computer and send the right text to the screen at the right moment. Split-second timing is crucial, or the laughs come in the wrong places. I also write programme notes for operas and concerts, give lectures and talks (at every level) on opera and theatre, and do any research that directors or producers might require.
All surtitles below are © Simon Rees (or © Yoko Kawaguchi where indicated).
I am always willing to undertake new surtitling projects on behalf of Opera Houses.
List of Opera Surtitles Currently available.
- St Matthew Passion
- Bluebeard’s Castle
- Wozzeck
- Lulu (in preparation)
- Fidelio
- Leonore
- Carmen (spoken dialogue)
- Carmen (recitative)
- Les pecheurs des perles
Cilea
- Adriana Lecouvreur (trans. Yoko Kawaguchi)
- L’arlesiana
- L’amore industrioso
- L’elisir d’amore
- Lucia di Lammermoor
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Maria di Rohan (trans. Yoko Kawaguchi)
- Iphigénie en Tauride
- Orphée et Eurydice
- Ariodante
- Jephtha
- Tamerlano
- The Creation
- Hansel and Gretel
- Jenůfa
- Katya Kabanova
- Pagliacci
- Cavalleria rusticana
- Iris
Massenet
- Manon
- Werther (trans. Yoko Kawaguchi)
- Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria
- L’incoronazione di Poppea
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail
- Così fan tutte
- Don Giovanni
- Idomeneo
- La clemenza di Tito
- Le nozze di Figaro
- Die Zauberflöte
- La voix humaine
- Dialogues des Carmelites
- The Tsar’s Bride
- La bohème
- Madama Butterfly
- Manon Lescaut
- La rondine (trans. Yoko Kawaguchi)
- Suor Angelica (trans. Yoko Kawaguchi)
- Tosca
- Turandot
- Il barbiere di Siviglia
- La Cenerentola
- Il turco in Italia
- Die Fledermaus
- Der Rosenkavalier
- Salome
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- Eugene Onegin
- Iolanta
- Mazepa
- The Queen of Spades
- Aida
- Un ballo in maschera
- Don Carlos
- Falstaff
- Macbeth
- Nabucco
- Otello
- Rigoletto
- Simon Boccanegra
- Stiffelio
- La traviata
- Il trovatore
- Der fliegende Holländer
- Parsifal
- The Ring Cycle
- Das Rheingold
- Die Walküre
- Siegfried
- Götterdämmerung
- Die Meistersinger
- Tristan und Isolde
- Lohengrin (in preparation)
- Belshazzar’s Feast
LIST OF SURTITLE HIRE CLIENTS
Welsh National Opera, Cardiff
Wales Millennium Centre
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Scottish Opera, Glasgow
Edinburgh International Festival
Opera North, Leeds
Buxton Festival, Buxton
Dorset Opera, Dorset
Ellen Kent Opera, London
Raymond Gubbay at Royal Albert Hall, London
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Halle Concerts Society
The Sage, Gateshead
New Chamber Opera
Holland Park Opera
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff
Scottish Conservatoire, Glasgow
Wide Open Opera, Dublin
Everyman Theatre, Cork
Opera 2005, Cork
Al Bustan Festival, Beirut
Houston Grand Opera, Houston
Minnesota Opera, Minnesota
Milwaukee Opera, Milwaukee
Seattle Opera, Seattle
Portland Opera
Boston Lyric Opera
Canadian Opera, Toronto
Norwegian Opera & Ballet
The NBR New Zealand Opera