I have always been an advocate of singing opera, songs and choral music in the language of the audience, with the exception of Latin texts which are time-hallowed and remote from everyday speech for good reason. My arguments for this have been set out in a number of articles, one of which is Singing Foreign. It also appears as “Language Barrier” in Opera News, January 2011: https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2011/1/Features/Language_Barrier.html

The works for which I have written singable English translations are the following:

• Bach, Cantata no. 84
• Bach, Coffee Cantata
• Beethoven, Joseph Cantata
• Berlioz, Les Troyens
• Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust
• Berlioz, Lélio
• Berlioz, L’Enfance du Christ
• Berlioz, Le Ballet des ombres
• Bizet, Les Pêcheurs de perles
• Cornelius, Der Barbier von Bagdad
• Debusssy, Pelléas et Mélisande
• Gluck, Iphigenia in Aulis
• Gounod, La Colombe
• Gounod, Mireille
• Haydn, Armida
• Martin Y Soler, Una Cosa rara
• Poulenc, Chansons gaillardes
• Schumann, Frauenliebe und leben
• Strauss, 3 songs, op. 87
• Thomas, Mignon