Sign-Language Opera Steals the Show

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:07 AM EDT On a small island off southwest Finland, a new art form has enraptured audiences, bringing opera to those who might seem farthest beyond its reach: the deaf. Signed theatre is performed frequently at venues around the world, and regular sung opera has been interpreted into sign language on the side of the stage, but this summer the 10-year- old Theatre Totti was the first to make a sign-language opera. "This is like a new food you order, you don't know what it's going to taste like. You just take it and try it out," said Juho Saarinen, one of a new order of 'opera signers'... Comment... [read full story]