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Verdi still sounds better in Italian than in any English translation that I have heard.
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Agreed, however there are other elements at play here. Verdi will *always* sound better in Italian than in any other language because the music and the language were designed to fit together. Any translation from the original is always hampered by the fact that it has to fit into the rhythms of the music. As such, translations of opera are rarely good translations, as they might be if it was just a straight translation of the text.
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