Pocket Opera Inc

Industry:	Music & Music Related Services
Employees:	20

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Pocket Opera turns opera into English.The goal of the translator, is not so much to translate as to illuminate, to convey as much as possible with the fewest words: words that are simple but not banal, words that resonate without sounding hollow, that float without sounding inflated, words that somehow get into the bloodstream of the music, words that aim for the heart of the matter.

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Mozart Goes Hollywood in Adaptation Of His Comic Opera 'Cosi Fan Tutte' The Washington Post; 9/2/2009 ...s version of "Cosi" -- one of seven adaptations she has commissioned of Mozart's late masterpieces -- as a "pocket opera." Her company has always straddled categories and performed in small spaces on a shoestring budget. "You can do... ...more

SC resident makes music across the country Sunday Gazette-Mail; 12/13/2009 ...with orchestra. Notre Dame de Namur University in San Francisco will perform scenes in conjunction with San Francisco Pocket Opera in April, and the Blue Ash/Montgomery Symphony of Ohio will perform three arias of "Angel" with narrator, mezzo... ...more

RTECO/Brogli-Sacher: Wagner's Das Rheingold The Irish Times; 11/21/2009 ...of the Ring. The City of Birmingham Touring Opera's two-night condensation of the work came to Belfast, and the Pocket Opera of Nuremberg's single- night version was seen at the Dublin Theatre Festival in the 1990s. And chunks of The Ringturn... ...more