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Category: Braille libretto

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Opera Fans Know What’s Happening, but the Devil is in the Details or…Libretti for Everybody!

Posted by: Mary Dell Jenkins

Some of the Music Section’s most ardent patrons are operagoers.  This comes as no surprise to other opera aficionados, but blind/low vision operagoers are usually not able to pick up a program in braille or large print and read a synopsis when they arrive at the theater; that is, until they (or the opera companies) …