Why You Can’t Understand Opera (Even in Your Own Language ?)
30th October 2025
Kate the Opera Singer looks behind the curtain to explain something that *I* have always wondered about (and maybe you have, too).
To be fair, staccato languages like German (e.g. Mozart or Wagner) are easier to understand when opera-sung than mush-mouth languages like French (e.g. Gounod or Bizet). Italian and Spanish can go either way, depending on the composer (I can understand what’s going on in a Mozart Italian opera easier than what is going on in the work of somebody like Rossini or Puccini). But maybe that’s just me.
And don’t get me started on Russian opera….