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Surtitle Solutions has what you need for your next show, live or streamed.We have a vast library of English surtitle translations and transcripts for operas, oratorios, song-cycles and choral works, all the way from Monteverdi to Ligeti.We can provide nuanced, custom-made new translations from Italian, French, German and Spanish for the piece you are performing.Our team of translators can also work into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech and Dutch.Quality is our number one priority, and we will tailor texts to fit your needs, at competitive rates.
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Surtitles

Scripts for hire, standard repertoire and rarities

Alfano

Cyrano de Bergerac

J.S. Bach

St John Passion
Christmas Oratorio

Bartók

Bluebeard's Castle

Beethoven

Fidelio
Ode to Joy

Bellini

I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Norma
La sonnambula

Berg

Wozzeck

Berlioz

Les Troyens
La Damnation de Faust

Debussy

Pelléas et Mélisande
L’Enfant prodigue

Donizetti

L’elisir d’amore
Lucia di Lammermoor
Anna Bolena
Linda di Chamonix
La Fille du régiment
Maria Stuarda
Don Pasquale

Gazzaniga

Don Giovanni Tenorio

Giordano

Andréa Chénier
Fedora

Gluck

Orfeo ed Euridice
Orphée et Eurydice
Alceste

Halévy

La Juive

Handel

Agrippina
Rinaldo
Amadigi di Gaula
Radamisto
Flavio
Giulio Cesare
Tamerlano
Rodelinda
Orlando
Arianna in Creta
Ariodante
Alcina
Serse
Imeneo

Humperdinck

Hänsel und Gretel

Ligeti

Le grand macabre

Mahler

Das Lied von der Erde

Massenet

Thaïs
Werther
Cendrillon
Le Portrait de Manon

Meyerbeer

Robert le diable

Monteverdi

L’Orfeo
Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
L’incoronazione di Poppea

Mozart

Mitridate
Lucio Silla
La finta giardiniera
Idomeneo
Le nozze di Figaro
Don Giovanni
Die Zauberflöte
La clemenza di Tito

Offenbach

La belle Hélène

Ponchielli

La Gioconda

Puccini

Manon Lescaut
La Bohème
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
La rondine
Il tabarro
Suor Angelica
Gianni Schicchi
Turandot

Rameau

Les Indes galantes
Les Paladins

Ravel

L’Heure espagnole
L’Enfant et les sortilèges
Shéhérazade

Respighi

La bella dormente al bosco

Rossini

L’equivoco stravagante
L’italiana in Algeri
Il turco in Italia
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Otello
La gazza ladra
Mosè in Egitto
La donna del lago
Matilde di Shabran

Schubert

Winterreise

Strauss

Salome
Elektra
Der Rosenkavalier

Verdi

Nabucco
Ernani
I due Foscari
Macbeth
I masnadieri
Luisa Miller
Rigoletto
Il trovatore
La traviata
Les Vêpres siciliennes
Simon Boccanegra
Un ballo in maschera
Don Carlos (French/Italian)
Aida
Otello
Falstaff
Requiem

Vivaldi

Orlando furioso
Ottone in villa
Tito Manlio

Wagner

Der fliegende Holländer
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Parsifal

Weber

Der Freischütz

Zemlinsky

Eine florentinische Tragödie

Subtitles

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People

Kenneth Chalmers

Kenneth Chalmers has 30 years of experience in providing surtitles and subtitles for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Barbican Centre, Salzburg Festival, Dutch National Opera, Norwegian Opera, Göteborg Opera, Garsington Opera and many more. He has provided live multi-lingual subtitling for opera broadcasts and streams from Covent Garden, La Fenice, Wiener Staatsoper, the Liceu and others. Kenneth is fluent in Italian, French and German, has a first degree in Music, a Ph.D in Ethnomusicology and is a qualified interpreter. He writes and translates articles for the major record companies and is the Italian translator for Opera magazine. Recent publications include his translations of New Ears for New Music by Constantin Floros (Peter Lang Edition) and the librettos of Norma and Die Zauberflöte in the Overture Opera Guide series. His biography of Béla Bartók is published by Phaidon Press.

Subtitlers and translators

Our team of professional subtitlers and translators are all classical music specialists whose clients include the major record companies, ROH, WNO, BBC, History Channel, National Geographic and online platforms

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