Seattle Opera Titles Rental

Seattle Opera’s critically-praised titles (aka “English captions”), written in-house by Jonathan Dean since 1997, are available for rental at competitive rates. Please direct inquiries to jonathan.dean@seattleopera.org.

“Jonathan Dean’s English captions [Tosca] were a work of art in themselves.”
-The Bellingham Herald

“Jonathan Dean’s surtitles [Ariadne auf Naxos] were, as usual, brilliant—racy and witty.”
“Dean’s masterly captions [Così fan tutte] did as much to convey Mozart’s parody as did [Jonathan] Miller.
“Outstanding supra-title translations [Der Ring des Nibelungen].”
-Opera News

“Dean’s translation [Tristan und Isolde] has made the unclear clear, the archaic modern without any loss of dignity or strength.”
-Seattle P-I

“The witty and accessible surtitles [Barber of Seville] — by Jonathan Dean, courtesy of Seattle Opera — inspired their own volleys of laughter.”
-ClevelandClassical.com

Available Scripts

• Aida (Verdi)
• Amelia (Hagen)
• Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss)
• Attila (Verdi)
• Un ballo in maschera (Verdi)
• Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
• Billy Budd (Britten)
• La bohème (Puccini)
• Carmen (Bizet)
• La Cenerentola (Rossini)
• Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach)
• Così fan tutte, both 18th-cent. and Modern Versions (Mozart)
• Don Carlo (Verdi)
• Don Giovanni (Mozart)
• Don Quichotte (Massenet)
• Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
• Elektra (R. Strauss)
• L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti)
• L’enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel)
• The End of the Affair (Heggie)
• Falstaff (Verdi)
• La fanciulla del West (Puccini)
• Faust (Gounod)
• Fidelio (Beethoven)
• Die Fledermaus, titles for Ruth & Thomas Martin singing translation (J. Strauss)
• Der Fliegende Holländer (Wagner)
• Der Freischütz, both original and Berlioz edition in French (Weber)
• Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
• Giulio Cesare (Handel)
• Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
• Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck)
• L’italiana in Algeri (Rossini)
• Lakmé (Délibes)
• Lohengrin (Wagner)
• Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
• Macbeth (Verdi)
• Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
• Manon Lescaut (Puccini)
• Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner)
• Merry Mount (Hanson)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (Levy)
• Norma (Bellini)
• Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
• Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck)
• Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
• Parsifal (Wagner)
• Les pêcheurs de perles (Bizet)
• Peter Ibbetson (Taylor)
• Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)
• I puritani (Bellini)
• Rigoletto (Verdi)
• Das Rheingold (Wagner)
• Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
• Salome, both “Bosie” and Modern Versions (R. Strauss)
• Die Schweigsame Frau, titles for Arthur Jacobs singing translation (R. Strauss)
• Siegfried (Wagner)
• Suor Angelica (Puccini)
• Il tabarro (Puccini)
• Tosca (Puccini)
• La traviata (Verdi)
• Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
• Il trittico: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
• Il trovatore (Verdi)
• The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
• Vanessa (Barber)
• Die Walküre (Wagner)
• Xerxes (Handel)
• Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)