Associations to the word «Surtitle»

Wiktionary

SURTITLE, noun. A translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance of an opera or other similar performance sung in a foreign language; a supertitle.
SURTITLE, verb. To provide surtitles for a performance.

Dictionary definition

SURTITLE, noun. Translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky