Libretti d’opera italiani con traduzione e spiegazioni in cinese (Italian opera librettos with precise word by word explanation)

Abstract

A series of Italian opera librettos with translations and explanations in Chinese is reviewed. The series is useful not only for singers, singing teachers and other opera professionals, but also for Chinese-speaking students of Italian. It should be considered as a model for a language teaching system (L2 but also L1) that finally includes librettos among its sources as an integral part of the Italian linguistic-cultural repertoire.

Keywords

• opera
• librettology
• language of librettos
• china
• italian language teaching