Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov, translator, opera singer and racing driver, born 10 April 1934; died 22 February 2012.
Despite these similarities, Armida abbandonata, unlike the earlier work, is generally considered by scholars of Monteverdi to be an opera, although Denis Stevens, translator of Monteverdi's letters, has termed it a "parergon" (subsidiary work) to Il Combattimento.
In 1993 Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, a writer, translator and opera scholar, shook up assumptions about Verdi with her magisterial, exhaustively researched, 800-page biography.
J. D. McClatchy, the esteemed American poet, critic, editor, teacher, translator, and opera librettist, died on Tuesday, of cancer, at the age of seventy-two.
A composer, an arranger, a scholar, and a translator of opera librettos, Sándor liked to play his children passages from recordings by Furtwängler, Klemperer, and Toscanini, showing how their interpretations differed from one another and changed over time.
After graduating from the Katharine Gibbs School in 1948, Mrs. Grossman worked as an associate producer for her father's television opera venture and as a translator for NBC.
Anne Chotzinoff Grossman, a translator of grand opera and author of a culinary guide to Patrick O'Brian's popular seafaring tales, died on Tuesday at her home in West Gilgo Beach, on the barrier islands off Suffolk County, New York.
Much of Saariaho's recent work is inspired by women's stories, from her oratorio about Simone Weil, "La Passion de Simone" (2002), to her latest opera, "Émilie" (2008), about the original French translator of Isaac Newton's "Principia".
Between selections Jeff Spurgeon, an announcer from WQXR (the radio station owned by The New York Times) and Cori Ellison, a translator and dramaturge, talked about Opera-for-All and how to buy tickets, the City Opera's history, the joys of supertitles and why opera is so special.
