New Zealand Opera to provide braille surtitles for live performances
Vision-impaired operagoers now able to follow lyrics or scripts without interference of audio descriptions
New Zealand’s blind and low-vision opera fans will be the first in the world to have access to braille surtitles, designed to enrich their experience of a live performance without the interference of audio descriptions.
Opera companies around the world regularly use surtitles – where lyrics or scripts are translated into other languages and published on screens during a live performance – to give audiences a deeper understanding of what is being said or sung on stage, in real time.