You can now watch opera with Braille surtitles

You can now watch opera with Braille surtitles

Opera

norman lebrecht

June 11, 2024

New Zealand Opera’s general director, Brad Cohen, has devised a way to send simultaneous texts to braille-reading machines for audience members who have trouble reading the surtitles above the stage.

A small step, but life changing for some spectators.

Full story here.

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