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Subtitles for The Snow Maiden (1952)

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January 21 2025 23:42:05
Created by Edward Agate, Eus, Niffiwan, Kuroku₃
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Originally subtitled by Eus in 2012, with the aid of 1) an early 20th century American libretto by Edward Agate, 2) a not very good Russian transcription, 3) constant exchange with the Spanish subtitler Kuroku who also used a Spanish libretto. The libretto was translated under its own laws to make the text singable.

In Jan 2025, the subtitles were heavily revised by Niffiwan. Major changes included:

Most songs had been inadvertently translated from the wrong verses in 2012. The 1908 musical score with the libretto by Edward Agate was used and compared side-by-side with a Russian musical score to correct this. However, Agate often digressed heavily from the original, so his translation was often modified or replaced, unless his translation was really beautiful and "correct in the bigger sense of what the song was trying to convey".

Throughout, the Early Modern English language of the 1908 libretto was maintained (with the old tenses - thee, thou, ye, wouldst, etc.).

The rhythm of the speech and number of syllables in every line was kept the same as in the original Russian, as much as possible, both in the songs and in the dialogue.

Some names and vocabulary were changed. For example, "Snow Maiden" is mostly changed to "Snegurochka" (as it is in the opera librettos) except in a few places that make it clear what it means (better for rhyme and meter), "King Winter" has been changed to "Frost" (either would be fine, really, but "Frost" is the direct translation, it's what Agate uses, and it makes the connection of this story to the Russian Santa Claus clearer). For "Leshy" - the English librettos seem to use "faun" or "satyr", but these do not come from Russian folklore and their depiction in the film is completely unlike those Roman/Greek creatures. Other suggestions: "wood goblin", "wood spirit". It was decided to use "wood guardian" as it seems that this can be understood and comes closest to their role in Russian folklore and in the film.

Some parts required very thorough study of the musical score to decipher, as there were many voices singing at the same time, or the words were unclear (especially the Call of the Heralds, and the very ending). If there are multiple voices singing at once, italics were used to differentiate one voice from another for the reader.

There are subtitles of "0 seconds" length at certain parts with information about which songs are being sung. In the 2012 subtitles, the name of each song was visible in the subs, but now this is "optional" information. Page numbers are also included, for those who want to find the exact song in the musical scores.

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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,900 Soyuzmultfilm Moscow 1952 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,210 THE SNOW MAIDEN A spring tale by A. Ostrovsky 3 00:00:05,250 --> 00:00:05,250 The page number references are for: (English condensed piano score: IMSLP 340340. Vocal score, libretto by Edward Agate, 1908) (Russian condensed piano score: IMSLP 21540. Vocal score, "Muzyka", 1974) 4 00:00:05,311 --> 00:00:07,511 music Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov arrangement and additions Lev Shvarts 5 00:00:07,660 --> 00:00:11,900 screenwriters Oleg Leonidov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya 6 00:00:12,001 --> 00:00:13,801 director-producer (staging) Ivan Ivanov-Vano 7 00:00:13,902 --> 00:00:16,152 director Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya 8 00:00:16,253 --> 00:00:18,503 art directors Lev Milchin, Viktor Nikitin, Nadezhda Stroganova 9 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:22,560 camera Nikolay Voinov, 2nd camera Yelena Petrova sound Nikolay Prilutskiy 10 00:00:22,660 --> 00:00:24,400 combination photography Nikolay Fyodorov, Vladimir Pekar 11 00:00:24,501 --> 00:00:26,301 assistant art directors Lana Azarkh, Yuriy Prytkov 12 00:00:26,402 --> 00:00:28,202 assistant directors V. Sveshnikova, Tatyana Fyodorova, Vera Shilina 13 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:29,550 animators Vladimir Arbekov, Yelizaveta Komova, Mihail Botov, Valentin Lalayants, 14 00:00:29,651 --> 00:00:30,801 Boris Butakov, Konstantin Malyshev, Roman Davydov, Konstantin Nikiforov, 15 00:00:30,902 --> 00:00:32,052 Vladimir Danilevich, Nadezhda Privalova, Vadim Dolgikh, Lidiya Reztsova, 16 00:00:32,153 --> 00:00:33,303 Faina Yepifanova, Boris Savkov, Grigoriy Kozlov, Tatyana Fyodorova, 17 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:34,500 Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, Grigoriy Kozlov, Konstantin Chikin, Roman Kachanov 18 00:00:34,601 --> 00:00:36,051 backgrounds Vera Valerianova, Irina Svetlitsa, Galina Nevzorova, 19 00:00:36,152 --> 00:00:37,602 Olga Gemmerling, Yelena Tannenberg, Irina Troyanova 20 00:00:37,703 --> 00:00:39,003 montage Nina Mayorova 21 00:00:39,104 --> 00:00:40,804 singers: Snow Maiden - Irina Maslennikova, Lel - Veronika Borisenko, 22 00:00:40,905 --> 00:00:42,555 Frost - Leonid Ktitorov, Bobyn - Veniamin Shevtsov 23 00:00:42,656 --> 00:00:44,306 dance choreographer Vladimir Burmeyster 24 00:00:44,550 --> 00:00:46,450 USSR Ministry of Cinematography Orchestra conductor Vasiliy Nebolsin 25 00:00:46,551 --> 00:00:48,501 Choir of the USSR State Academic Bolshoi Theatre 26 00:00:48,601 --> 00:00:50,301 production director Boris Chekalov 27 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:51,100 (Prologue) p.1 (Vstupleniye) p.1 28 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:33,620 The winter wanes, the roosters' song is heard... 29 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:39,709 and faery Spring now takes the Earth with wonder. 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,829 The midnight hour has struck, 31 00:01:44,109 --> 00:01:48,900 this wood guardian's long vigil's done, 32 00:01:49,030 --> 00:01:54,150 I fain would sink to sleep! 33 00:02:42,510 --> 00:02:46,960 Are ye chilled? Are ye shivering, poor things? 34 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,500 Though it be just to warm yourselves, 35 00:02:49,601 --> 00:02:53,651 come dance a round to celebrate our coming here! 36 00:02:53,780 --> 00:02:53,780 (The Song and the Dance of the Birds) p.14 (Pesnya i plyaska ptits) p.20 37 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:03,210 Birds were a-meeting, warblers were meeting, in flocks, in flocks... 38 00:03:03,349 --> 00:03:08,999 Birds were a-landing, warblers were landing, in rows, in rows... 39 00:03:09,099 --> 00:03:14,820 Of all you birds, of all you warblers, who is the greatest? 40 00:03:14,950 --> 00:03:20,180 Of all you birds, of all you warblers, who is the meanest? 41 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:27,000 Of all you birds, of all you warblers, who is the greatest? Who is the meanest? 42 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,900 The heron does our cooking, 43 00:03:31,001 --> 00:03:34,010 cuckoo bird keeps time for the forest! (the forest!) 44 00:03:34,099 --> 00:03:39,559 And the rosy-faced crow, she is so good-looking! (Good-looking!) 45 00:03:39,659 --> 00:03:45,149 In summer, along roads! In winter, under eaves! Under eaves! 46 00:03:45,249 --> 00:03:51,829 Our crow dressed finely! No one is more precious, more precious, more precious! 47 00:03:55,919 --> 00:03:57,979 Away, away, into the bushes! 48 00:03:58,270 --> 00:04:01,560 He's playing games again, old Frost! 49 00:04:17,459 --> 00:04:17,459 (The Song of King Frost) p.27 (Pesnya Deda-Moroza) p.37 50 00:04:19,459 --> 00:04:22,750 When in winter the wind goes a-howling through rafter and roof, 51 00:04:22,851 --> 00:04:25,640 And the doorways of castle and cottage are creaking aloud, 52 00:04:25,741 --> 00:04:30,041 what delight! What delight for me! 53 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:34,660 When in snow every road is covered and lost, 54 00:04:34,761 --> 00:04:38,760 and the wagons return seeking shelter in vain, 55 00:04:38,850 --> 00:04:42,920 from my lair where I watch I outstrip them with ease, 56 00:04:43,021 --> 00:04:47,910 through the meadow so white o'er the frost-bitten plain. 57 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,500 There I lie unseen, 58 00:04:51,501 --> 00:04:55,901 until midnight sounds and then I sally forth. 59 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,220 Shining rays will I cast through the darkness and gloom 60 00:05:00,321 --> 00:05:05,240 seas of light I'll pour, coloured so brightly with many a shade, 61 00:05:05,741 --> 00:05:10,041 to render night as bright as day! 62 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,910 High above, tongues of flame dance with fervour, 63 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,410 while beneath them, snows blow ever fiercer... 64 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:24,090 An ocean of colour: bright, fiery, lush, to conclude! 65 00:05:24,191 --> 00:05:28,320 Here it's blue, here it's red, and there cherry-hued! 66 00:05:28,450 --> 00:05:30,700 What delight, 67 00:05:30,801 --> 00:05:36,001 what delight for me! 68 00:05:45,699 --> 00:05:48,939 Dear faery Spring! 69 00:05:49,050 --> 00:05:51,050 Art thou returned in good health? 70 00:05:51,199 --> 00:05:54,629 And art thou well, too, Father Frost? 71 00:05:55,060 --> 00:05:59,060 I thank thee; I cannot complain. 72 00:05:59,230 --> 00:06:03,900 The Berendeyans will not soon forget this winter season! 73 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,560 It was a merry one! 74 00:06:06,709 --> 00:06:09,000 When I wished to go out, 75 00:06:09,101 --> 00:06:11,051 I'd take an oaken club, 76 00:06:11,152 --> 00:06:15,252 clear out the sky, and add some silver to it. 77 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:19,819 In these vast lands, what liberty hath I! 78 00:06:19,949 --> 00:06:22,120 Thou must've had much merriment, 79 00:06:22,259 --> 00:06:26,069 but 'tis time for thee to journey northwards. 80 00:06:26,209 --> 00:06:29,029 Don't press me, I'll soon leave myself. 81 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,900 At dawn of day, the icy, northern wind 82 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,279 doth swiftly bear me to the Siberian tundras. 83 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,079 Then who'll care for our snow maiden, Snegurochka? 84 00:06:41,370 --> 00:06:44,740 Our daughter is a child no more. 85 00:06:45,089 --> 00:06:47,549 She needs no nursemaids now. 86 00:06:47,750 --> 00:06:51,779 In sure retreat the forest guards her well: 87 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,810 none finds the way to her abode. 88 00:06:54,811 --> 00:06:54,811 (Snegurochka's Aria) p.36 (Ariya Snegurochki) p.50 89 00:06:54,919 --> 00:06:58,869 To gather berries with friends in the woods, 90 00:06:58,970 --> 00:07:03,970 replying to my merry-voiced companions: 91 00:07:07,571 --> 00:07:12,871 "Ay-oo! Ay-oo." 92 00:07:16,089 --> 00:07:20,200 To lead the circle dance, and after Lel repeat 93 00:07:20,301 --> 00:07:26,001 the joyous songs that celebrate the spring: 94 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:36,000 "Oh, Lado, Lel!" 95 00:07:39,989 --> 00:07:46,000 Such is my dream, and my delight; for without song, life holds no light! 96 00:07:47,839 --> 00:07:50,300 For without song, life holds no light! 97 00:07:50,501 --> 00:07:57,001 Holds no light! 98 00:07:59,430 --> 00:08:04,860 She won't stay happy living alone amongst owls and wood guardians. 99 00:08:05,259 --> 00:08:07,059 Oh, old man! 100 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,860 Liberty's what a maiden loves most! 101 00:08:10,150 --> 00:08:13,329 That is just what I do not like. 102 00:08:13,759 --> 00:08:18,339 The sun god Yarilo would gladly slay our darling child. 103 00:08:18,569 --> 00:08:23,370 He strives in jealousy to fan within her breast 104 00:08:23,540 --> 00:08:27,560 the fatal flame of love's delight, 105 00:08:27,689 --> 00:08:31,149 and then nothing could save Snegurochka. 106 00:08:31,439 --> 00:08:36,310 To bind our child against her will, I, her dear mother, won't allow. 107 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,860 Give me my Snegurochka! 108 00:08:39,261 --> 00:08:40,761 I won't! 109 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,119 Why thinkest thou I'd trust my daughter to one who is so reckless? 110 00:08:45,250 --> 00:08:48,710 What dost thou speak of, red-nosed fool? 111 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,240 Now listen, let's not quarrel: 112 00:09:04,789 --> 00:09:08,219 A maiden often falls for want of guidance; 113 00:09:08,620 --> 00:09:12,370 so let us give her to Bobyl, who lives near town. 114 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,430 He's childless; she shall be his daughter. 115 00:09:15,750 --> 00:09:17,690 So be it. 116 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,410 Now call to me Snegurochka. 117 00:09:20,539 --> 00:09:24,160 Snow maiden! 118 00:09:24,249 --> 00:09:27,899 Snegurochka! 119 00:09:28,750 --> 00:09:32,660 Snegurochka, my child! 120 00:09:32,789 --> 00:09:34,799 Ay-oo! 121 00:09:35,710 --> 00:09:38,230 Ay-oo-oo! 122 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,040 My poor, little Snegurochka, untamed child. 123 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,289 Come, nestle to my heart that I may kiss thee! 124 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,600 My beauty, 125 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,760 wouldst thou live life in freedom, with mortal men? 126 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,629 I would, I would, allow me! 127 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,840 But what lures thee to forsake thy parental home? 128 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,700 Why seek these Berendeyans, what charm have they for thee? 129 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:45,260 Their songs win me! 130 00:10:45,361 --> 00:10:47,361 Let me go, father! 131 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,229 When, in the cold of winter, 132 00:10:49,330 --> 00:10:52,430 thou dost return to thy dim, sombre woods, 133 00:10:52,629 --> 00:10:54,970 at fall of eve I'll sing for thee, 134 00:10:55,399 --> 00:10:58,849 charming thy solitude and while the time away 135 00:10:58,950 --> 00:11:00,250 with joyous song! 136 00:11:00,340 --> 00:11:04,440 From Lel I shall hear them, and each song quickly learn. 137 00:11:04,529 --> 00:11:07,669 This Lel, how camest thou to know him? 138 00:11:07,850 --> 00:11:09,910 I hid behind a wicker bush. 139 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,649 He herds cows in the forest, and sings all kinds of songs. 140 00:11:17,370 --> 00:11:21,060 For shame, guardian! 141 00:11:23,950 --> 00:11:27,050 How dost thou know that this is Lel? 142 00:11:27,179 --> 00:11:30,299 To him young maidens gather, young pretty ones, 143 00:11:30,389 --> 00:11:33,769 they caress his head, and look into his eyes, 144 00:11:33,870 --> 00:11:35,370 praise him, and give him kisses, 145 00:11:35,471 --> 00:11:38,871 and call him names fanciful and endearing, 146 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,570 "Thou charming Lel, oh Lel beloved!" 147 00:11:43,669 --> 00:11:47,479 And truly, is handsome Lel so good at singing? 148 00:11:47,580 --> 00:11:47,580 (Snegurochka's Arietta) p.41 (Ariette Snegurochki) p.57 149 00:11:50,350 --> 00:11:53,000 Mama, 150 00:11:53,469 --> 00:12:00,610 I have heard, yes, I have heard 151 00:12:00,710 --> 00:12:06,700 I have heard, mama dear, 152 00:12:07,351 --> 00:12:13,401 the larks singing at morning, 153 00:12:13,850 --> 00:12:19,400 mounting aloft in aether blue, 154 00:12:19,701 --> 00:12:25,501 swan calling with plaintive cry, 155 00:12:25,990 --> 00:12:32,000 over the tranquil waters. 156 00:12:32,909 --> 00:12:40,400 I have heard, yes, I have heard 157 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:46,500 the nightingale's pure singing, 158 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:58,000 of the night thy favourite enchantress. 159 00:12:58,470 --> 00:13:05,000 And, too, Lel's songs. 160 00:13:05,970 --> 00:13:13,000 The songs of Lel I love the best. 161 00:13:13,939 --> 00:13:21,199 By night and day I fain would ever listen 162 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:31,400 to his sweet shepherd singing, 163 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,330 and feel my heart 164 00:13:35,481 --> 00:13:48,231 is melting!... 165 00:13:48,370 --> 00:13:52,239 Hear that? "Melting"! 166 00:13:52,350 --> 00:13:56,180 The word is dark, and filled with evil omen! 167 00:13:56,299 --> 00:13:59,729 Snegurochka, beware of Lel! 168 00:13:59,870 --> 00:14:03,190 Heed not his songs and pleasant words! 169 00:14:03,850 --> 00:14:08,279 The searing sun doth pierce him through and through! 170 00:14:09,169 --> 00:14:12,559 Of all the words that were thought up by men, 171 00:14:12,699 --> 00:14:18,089 the word most terrible to Frost is surely "melt". 172 00:14:18,259 --> 00:14:22,069 Snegurochka, beware of Lel. 173 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,100 Father, I am an obedient child; 174 00:14:25,190 --> 00:14:28,850 but thou art much too angered by them - by Lel and the Sun; 175 00:14:28,990 --> 00:14:32,250 truly, neither Lel nor the sun provoke my fear. 176 00:14:32,650 --> 00:14:37,000 Snegurochka, if thy heart should feel sorrow, 177 00:14:37,139 --> 00:14:40,769 then haste away to the lake in yon sunlit vale Yarilo. 178 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,690 There call for me, 179 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,999 and whatsoe'er thy wish be, I shall not fail to help. 180 00:14:47,110 --> 00:14:51,009 And I'll arrange for thee to be kept safe. 181 00:14:51,689 --> 00:14:55,589 Ay-oo, my friends! 182 00:14:56,549 --> 00:15:00,629 Appear now! All wood guardians! 183 00:15:00,909 --> 00:15:03,860 Art all asleep? 184 00:15:04,090 --> 00:15:09,460 Wake up now, obey my call! 185 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,000 Snegurochka needs guarding! 186 00:15:25,139 --> 00:15:26,889 Listen, wood guardian: 187 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:32,750 If a strange man, or Lel the shepherd, hassles her, step in! 188 00:15:32,860 --> 00:15:35,259 Entice the culprit, lead him on 189 00:15:35,260 --> 00:15:38,960 to dark and lonely ways, and let him sink 190 00:15:39,070 --> 00:15:42,880 to marshy pen, to slowly perish. 191 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,499 All right. 192 00:15:48,430 --> 00:15:52,070 Oi! We bear away fair Carnival! 193 00:15:52,321 --> 00:15:55,121 Oi! We bear away fair Carnival! 194 00:15:55,230 --> 00:15:58,300 Here comes a crowd of joyous Berendeyans. 195 00:15:58,429 --> 00:16:00,009 Let's go, Frost! 196 00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:04,010 Snegurochka, farewell! 197 00:16:08,259 --> 00:16:13,909 Farewell, Snegurochka, my daughter! 198 00:16:23,529 --> 00:16:26,279 Farewell, father! 199 00:16:26,379 --> 00:16:26,379 (Chorus. Carnival Procession) p.50 (Hor provody Maslenitsy) p.70 200 00:16:27,399 --> 00:16:30,709 The roosters have crowed since the morning, 201 00:16:30,809 --> 00:16:33,099 to announce that Spring is here. 202 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,000 Farewell, farewell, farewell Carnival! 203 00:16:36,101 --> 00:16:39,001 Farewell, farewell, farewell Carnival! 204 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:42,060 With good and sweet food thou hast fed us, 205 00:16:42,161 --> 00:16:44,361 with hydromel and beer watered us. 206 00:16:44,460 --> 00:16:47,330 Farewell, farewell, farewell Carnival! 207 00:16:47,431 --> 00:16:50,281 Farewell, farewell, farewell Carnival! 208 00:16:50,380 --> 00:16:53,440 All have made merry and drunk their fill, 209 00:16:53,541 --> 00:16:55,791 and even more has been spilled! 210 00:16:55,919 --> 00:16:58,899 Farewell, farewell, farewell Carnival! 211 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Farewell, farewell, farewell Carnival! 212 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,080 Thou art proudly crowned with a wisp of straw, 213 00:17:05,181 --> 00:17:08,281 and finely decked with bark and moss. 214 00:17:08,390 --> 00:17:11,390 Farewell, farewell, farewell Carnival! 215 00:17:11,490 --> 00:17:14,470 And with many honours regal, 216 00:17:14,571 --> 00:17:17,571 thou art borne away in a coach of state. 217 00:17:17,670 --> 00:17:20,640 Farewell, farewell, farewell Carnival! 218 00:17:20,741 --> 00:17:23,691 Farewell, farewell, farewell Carnival! 219 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,450 Oi! We bear away fair Carnival! 220 00:17:27,551 --> 00:17:31,351 Oi! We bear away fair Carnival! 221 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,709 Oi! 222 00:17:35,809 --> 00:17:35,809 ("Bobyl's song" in "Final Scene") p.66 (Zaklyuchitelnaya stsena) p.94 223 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:40,959 Oh Bobyl, a pauper thou, not a stick, not a sou, 224 00:17:41,069 --> 00:17:45,730 not a crumb, not a crust, save what neighbours lend on trust! 225 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:53,420 Come home, I say! Thou drunkard! 226 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,380 Look there, look there! 227 00:18:08,559 --> 00:18:11,500 What a peculiar sight! 228 00:18:22,769 --> 00:18:27,319 Ah, fie upon thee! 229 00:18:27,490 --> 00:18:32,269 Thou drunkard! I shall make a ghost of thee! 230 00:18:54,490 --> 00:18:58,359 Ooh! A princess! 231 00:18:58,779 --> 00:19:00,869 A real one! 232 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,250 Pray, I would know, 233 00:19:03,450 --> 00:19:06,029 how far dost thy path wend, 234 00:19:06,180 --> 00:19:10,030 and thy true given name, if 'tis thy pleasure. 235 00:19:10,309 --> 00:19:14,599 Snegurochka. I know not whither to go. 236 00:19:15,660 --> 00:19:19,240 Yet if ye be kind, then be my hosts. 237 00:19:20,519 --> 00:19:24,639 He who first discovered me, let him claim me for daugher. 238 00:20:12,730 --> 00:20:14,839 Farewell, father! 239 00:20:15,210 --> 00:20:17,789 Farewell, my mother! 240 00:20:18,190 --> 00:20:22,220 Woodlands deep, farewell! 241 00:20:35,670 --> 00:20:43,019 Farewell! Farewell! Farewell! Farewell! 242 00:20:59,819 --> 00:20:59,819 (A c t 1) p.72 (Deystviye pervoye) p.105 243 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,559 Wouldst hear my song? 244 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,819 I hardly dared to ask thee, yet gladly would I listen; 245 00:22:51,140 --> 00:22:55,030 to hear these songs is my sole joy and pleasure. 246 00:22:55,230 --> 00:22:59,900 Then pluck a tiny flower for me, to thank me for my song! 247 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,829 Thou mak'st jests, thou laugh'st. 248 00:23:02,980 --> 00:23:04,960 Why wouldst thou want a flower? 249 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,210 If thou need'st one, pluck it thyself. 250 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,200 The flower is not important. 251 00:23:12,299 --> 00:23:16,779 But I'd treasure a gift from Snegurochka. 252 00:23:18,829 --> 00:23:20,659 Have it. 253 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,730 I'll keep it in a visible place. 254 00:23:25,850 --> 00:23:28,190 Let all maids see it. 255 00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:31,009 If asked where it came from, 256 00:23:31,210 --> 00:23:34,410 I shall say 'twas thy gift. 257 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:37,279 (Lell's First Song) p.79 (Pervaya pesnya Lelya) p.118 258 00:23:51,259 --> 00:24:00,689 Berry, in the forest, red and running wild, 259 00:24:00,789 --> 00:24:12,000 'neath briar and bramble strove to grow; 260 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:23,000 this poor orphan maiden, sweet and lonely child, 261 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:39,000 on earth no joy may ever know. 262 00:25:04,769 --> 00:25:07,660 Thou art right, handsome Lel. 263 00:25:07,809 --> 00:25:10,299 Go to where thou art adored. 264 00:25:10,609 --> 00:25:14,269 Seek out love, thou art worthy of it. 265 00:25:18,819 --> 00:25:22,649 The snow maiden's heart is cold to all, 266 00:25:22,769 --> 00:25:25,890 and shall not beat with love for thee. 267 00:25:25,990 --> 00:25:25,990 (Scene between Coupava, Snikir and Snegourochka) p.101 (Stsena Kupavy so Snegurochkoy i Mizgirem) p.141 268 00:25:28,259 --> 00:25:31,119 Far up on the distant plain, 269 00:25:31,220 --> 00:25:34,520 far up on the distant plain, 270 00:25:34,619 --> 00:25:37,939 linden tree so proudly stands. 271 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,340 linden tree so proudly stands. 272 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,700 Underneath the linden tree, 273 00:25:44,701 --> 00:25:47,901 underneath the linden tree, 274 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,260 spreads a tent of dazzling white, 275 00:25:51,361 --> 00:25:54,661 spreads a tent of dazzling white. 276 00:26:01,069 --> 00:26:04,619 For you, fine nuts and dainties made with spices, 277 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,420 my ship has brought. 278 00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:18,920 Here's gold enough indeed, my pretty damsels; 279 00:26:18,970 --> 00:26:22,210 right glad am I to pay the price ye ask. 280 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,070 Friend of my heart: 281 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,019 the freedom of my maidenhood, my friends, 282 00:26:57,130 --> 00:27:00,450 my loved ones, I have exchanged for thee; 283 00:27:00,539 --> 00:27:02,539 so don't deceive Kupava. 284 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,460 Pray do not break this maiden's heart. 285 00:27:07,740 --> 00:27:12,230 Snegurochka, I crave a mark of friendship, 286 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,000 come lead the circle dance for one last time! 287 00:27:16,730 --> 00:27:20,470 Not long have I left to have fun and frolic; 288 00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:24,619 the last day of my maidenhood has come, 289 00:27:24,990 --> 00:27:28,849 Snegurochka, the last day! 290 00:27:31,509 --> 00:27:33,130 I'll come with thee! 291 00:27:33,230 --> 00:27:36,809 I'll take my spun cloth home and join thee quickly. 292 00:27:37,009 --> 00:27:39,000 We'll take Lel also. 293 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,770 Snegurochka is thy companion, 294 00:27:49,910 --> 00:27:52,000 but why should Lel join us? 295 00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:55,709 Snegurochka without him would be lonely. 296 00:27:56,619 --> 00:27:58,419 Thou thinkest so? 297 00:27:58,519 --> 00:28:02,349 Would not Snegurochka be happier to lead the dance with me? 298 00:28:02,549 --> 00:28:04,000 And I? 299 00:28:04,490 --> 00:28:07,210 And thou? Go join the shepherd! 300 00:28:09,509 --> 00:28:11,389 What's this, my love? 301 00:28:11,930 --> 00:28:14,279 But I'm thy promised bride! 302 00:28:14,420 --> 00:28:16,650 Mere empty words! 303 00:28:16,769 --> 00:28:19,250 The heart doth heed no law. 304 00:28:19,369 --> 00:28:23,000 I loved thee once, but now I love another: 305 00:28:23,369 --> 00:28:26,379 Snegurochka. 306 00:28:26,660 --> 00:28:31,750 Thou art a hateful, truly hateful man! 307 00:28:48,950 --> 00:28:53,959 And thou, oh stream, with swift and cooling waters, 308 00:28:54,089 --> 00:28:58,409 ye friendly floods, so deep and silent, 309 00:28:59,470 --> 00:29:04,000 oh hide me well, and still my grief and pain! 310 00:29:04,130 --> 00:29:07,000 That I amid the restless waves 311 00:29:07,619 --> 00:29:11,000 may find a grave for evermore! 312 00:29:12,829 --> 00:29:17,000 Why dost thou wish, so young, to pass away? 313 00:29:17,210 --> 00:29:21,150 When sorrow fades, thy heart will surely heal! 314 00:29:21,410 --> 00:29:27,000 There's one who gives protection to wronged maidens: Tsar Berendey. 315 00:29:27,450 --> 00:29:30,139 Go ask the tsar, Kupava! 316 00:29:30,340 --> 00:29:30,340 A c t 2 (Chorus of blind gousli-players) p.129 (Pesnya slentsov-guslyarov) p.181 317 00:29:30,419 --> 00:29:38,669 Our prophetic, ringing strings sing the praises 318 00:29:38,769 --> 00:29:50,650 of Tsar Berendey, his glory and greatness! 319 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:59,599 Glad are the cities of the Berendeyans. 320 00:30:03,750 --> 00:30:11,900 Glad are the cities of the Berendeyans, 321 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:23,700 and one may oft hear sweet songs through fair meadows. 322 00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:31,850 Happy Tsar Berendey's country and peaceful! 323 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:40,000 The strings of the bards will e'er sing the praises 324 00:30:40,099 --> 00:30:49,139 of Tsar Berendey's wise reign and its greatness! 325 00:30:49,140 --> 00:30:49,140 (Scene between Tsar Berendey and Bermata) p.138 (Stsena tsarya s Bermatoy) p.191 326 00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:04,789 Oh mighty tsar of our contented country, 327 00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:07,680 long life to thee! 328 00:31:08,250 --> 00:31:11,220 Within thy far-flung tsardom, 329 00:31:11,350 --> 00:31:14,000 all still goes well, as is the custom. 330 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:15,800 'Tis true? 331 00:31:15,901 --> 00:31:17,801 Yes, verily! 332 00:31:20,130 --> 00:31:23,270 I doubt thy word, Bermyata! 333 00:31:23,499 --> 00:31:28,949 Too casual are thy declared judgements. 334 00:31:29,190 --> 00:31:30,290 Don't think that if 335 00:31:30,391 --> 00:31:34,141 there be no murders foul or thievery... 336 00:31:34,239 --> 00:31:37,269 Some do thieve, by and by. 337 00:31:38,740 --> 00:31:40,350 And are they caught? 338 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,160 Why should we chase the rogues and waste our strength? 339 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,929 Let the thieves ply their trade. 340 00:31:47,089 --> 00:31:50,079 One of these days, someone will catch them. 341 00:31:56,410 --> 00:32:00,600 Prosperity is such a noble word! 342 00:32:00,759 --> 00:32:05,419 'Twas long since I've seen it amongst my people. 343 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,019 Not since fifteen years erewhile. 344 00:32:09,140 --> 00:32:11,750 Our summer is so short, 345 00:32:11,850 --> 00:32:15,429 and year by year it doth become yet shorter, 346 00:32:15,550 --> 00:32:17,880 and our springs colder get - 347 00:32:17,990 --> 00:32:19,960 they are foggy and damp, 348 00:32:20,061 --> 00:32:22,061 as if 'twere autumn. 349 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,300 The god Yarilo spurns us! 350 00:32:26,649 --> 00:32:31,369 But, oh wise tsar, why should he be so angry? 351 00:32:31,759 --> 00:32:33,719 Not for nought. 352 00:32:33,839 --> 00:32:39,900 In people's hearts, I have noticed a coldness. 353 00:32:40,019 --> 00:32:44,300 To serve Beauty is no longer their goal; 354 00:32:44,449 --> 00:32:48,500 they favour now quite unrelated passions: 355 00:32:48,660 --> 00:32:52,900 conceitedness, envy of others' garments. 356 00:32:53,220 --> 00:32:58,690 In short, my friend: 'tis for our feelings cold 357 00:32:58,850 --> 00:33:03,300 that Yarilo the Sun is angered with us, 358 00:33:03,419 --> 00:33:05,780 and seeks cold vengeance. 359 00:33:06,231 --> 00:33:08,481 Understand? 360 00:33:09,319 --> 00:33:11,750 Then, oh wise tsar, 361 00:33:11,851 --> 00:33:13,951 state a decree 362 00:33:14,070 --> 00:33:16,679 that wives should be e'er faithful, 363 00:33:16,809 --> 00:33:20,300 and husbands cherish more their gentle beauty, 364 00:33:20,409 --> 00:33:23,719 and all young lads should be, without exception, 365 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,650 head-over-heels in love with their young brides. 366 00:33:27,869 --> 00:33:30,700 A straightforward solution, 367 00:33:30,899 --> 00:33:33,100 but will it help the matter? 368 00:33:34,180 --> 00:33:35,580 Not at all. 369 00:33:35,959 --> 00:33:38,500 Why, then, make the decree? 370 00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:43,259 So that the Sun doth not blame us: 371 00:33:43,429 --> 00:33:45,240 it was decreed, we could say; 372 00:33:45,380 --> 00:33:48,339 if some don't listen, the fault's theirs! 373 00:33:48,529 --> 00:33:53,009 I've pondered this whole night until the dawn, 374 00:33:53,470 --> 00:33:56,710 so hear my reasoned resolution: 375 00:33:56,980 --> 00:34:00,500 tomorrow, on Yarilo's Day, 376 00:34:00,829 --> 00:34:07,000 in the sacred forest, I wish to gather from across this country 377 00:34:07,579 --> 00:34:12,569 all bachelors and maidens, to be wed. 378 00:34:12,659 --> 00:34:14,789 Do not be wroth. 379 00:34:15,590 --> 00:34:20,070 Our bachelors and maidens all have nearly come to blows. 380 00:34:20,260 --> 00:34:22,500 Who can we wed? 381 00:34:22,699 --> 00:34:27,759 They won't agree to linger within reach of each other! 382 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,550 From what cause? 383 00:34:29,630 --> 00:34:32,020 Not long since, in a vill beyond the river, 384 00:34:32,110 --> 00:34:35,500 a maiden named Snegurochka did surface. 385 00:34:35,829 --> 00:34:38,409 All the young men have quarreled for her sake. 386 00:34:38,530 --> 00:34:42,180 The brides-to-be attacked their would-be grooms out of jealousy. 387 00:34:42,289 --> 00:34:45,250 All vows of love are broken, 388 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,120 and discord reigns throughout the countryside! 389 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,610 A maiden beautiful, weeping and wailing... 390 00:34:53,729 --> 00:34:56,500 ...doth seek thy audience. 391 00:34:56,799 --> 00:35:00,309 For maidens beautiful, is the way ever barred, 392 00:35:00,409 --> 00:35:02,179 are my doors ever locked? 393 00:35:02,389 --> 00:35:05,500 Oh father, tsar of light! 394 00:35:06,579 --> 00:35:08,819 Speak, I am listening. 395 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,720 What wert thou wronged by? 396 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,660 Who hath disgraced thee? 397 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,959 I would ask thou something, oh father, tsar of light: 398 00:35:18,349 --> 00:35:21,500 should we heed any oaths, 399 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,500 should in conscience we trust, 400 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,500 or should we lose faith in other folk totally? 401 00:35:29,059 --> 00:35:32,549 How could we not have faith, oh maiden beautiful? 402 00:35:32,690 --> 00:35:34,819 What keeps the light aloft? 403 00:35:34,919 --> 00:35:38,600 Conscience and truth alone keep it from faltering. 404 00:35:38,750 --> 00:35:41,500 May I speak, tsar of light? 405 00:35:41,909 --> 00:35:44,500 Speak, I am listening... 406 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:45,360 (Finale. Tsar Berendey's Judgement. The Call of the Heralds) p.154 (Klich biryuchey) p.212 407 00:35:50,409 --> 00:35:53,669 <i>Ye subjects of our Sovereign!</i> 408 00:35:53,769 --> 00:35:57,550 <i>Ye boyars, ye nobles and ye boyars' children!</i> 409 00:35:57,869 --> 00:36:00,350 <i>With your manners outgoing</i> 410 00:36:00,451 --> 00:36:02,801 <i>and your long beards flowing!</i> 411 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:05,130 <i>Great lords, with your vassals</i> 412 00:36:05,231 --> 00:36:08,531 <i>who course on your errands, barefooted and breathless!</i> 413 00:36:08,630 --> 00:36:12,020 Hear ye now, hear all of ye, subjects of our Sovereign... 414 00:36:12,119 --> 00:36:14,319 <i>Hear ye now, hear all of ye,</i> 415 00:36:14,420 --> 00:36:18,400 <i>subjects of our Sovereign, our Sovereign's order:</i> 416 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:21,879 Go ye to the red gates majestic, 417 00:36:22,409 --> 00:36:24,460 <i>Go ye to...</i> to the red, royal court! 418 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,710 to the stately, carved beams, and the gates richly gilded, 419 00:36:27,829 --> 00:36:30,639 up the steps unnumbered, 420 00:36:30,789 --> 00:36:34,109 inside the thick, oak doors, into the Sovereign's halls! 421 00:36:34,210 --> 00:36:36,300 <i>inside the thick, oak doors, into the Sovereign's halls!</i> 422 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:44,160 Justice is to be done! 423 00:37:52,999 --> 00:37:52,999 (The Berendey Hymn. Tsar) p.161 (not sung) (Gimn berendeyev. Tsar) p.222 424 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,739 Is the culprit brought hither? 425 00:37:57,030 --> 00:38:01,019 The culprit's here, thy judgement he awaits. 426 00:38:04,340 --> 00:38:07,820 Ye know the crime that brought him here? 427 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,460 We know it! 428 00:38:09,570 --> 00:38:12,950 Thy guilt forenamed dost thou confess? 429 00:38:14,139 --> 00:38:15,429 I do. 430 00:38:15,519 --> 00:38:20,019 Mizgir, dost thou wish to redress thy sin, 431 00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:23,500 and take Kupava for thy wife? 432 00:38:24,039 --> 00:38:27,889 Mizgir has but one bride: Snegurochka. 433 00:38:39,820 --> 00:38:42,500 Oh, honest folk! 434 00:38:43,159 --> 00:38:47,500 his crime demands a penalty of death; 435 00:38:47,980 --> 00:38:53,539 whereas the laws that guide us forbid the act of bloodshed. 436 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,500 The people's court rules, therefore, that Mizgir 437 00:38:58,909 --> 00:39:03,500 from this our land forever shall be exiled. 438 00:39:04,170 --> 00:39:08,599 Let him be sent away from every door, 439 00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:11,100 from every dwelling place, 440 00:39:11,220 --> 00:39:16,309 which sacred holds the customs of fair antiquity! 441 00:39:16,650 --> 00:39:19,869 I shall speak no words to defend my action; 442 00:39:20,860 --> 00:39:26,970 yet if thou couldst, oh mighty tsar, e'en once see Snegurochka... 443 00:40:00,699 --> 00:40:03,750 Have they noticed my bonnet? 444 00:40:04,059 --> 00:40:06,779 They gaze and marvel, all! 445 00:40:35,970 --> 00:40:37,990 Greetings, tsar! 446 00:40:57,769 --> 00:41:02,239 Snegurochka, the time has come for thee 447 00:41:02,409 --> 00:41:06,329 to choose a friend whom thy young heart shall cherish! 448 00:41:06,460 --> 00:41:09,500 Where shall I find one such? I know not! 449 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,500 Thy heart will say. 450 00:41:17,570 --> 00:41:20,500 And yet my heart is silent. 451 00:41:21,630 --> 00:41:23,500 Oh, mighty tsar, 452 00:41:23,780 --> 00:41:26,500 to love she has not wakened. 453 00:41:28,039 --> 00:41:31,989 For one so fair to not know love? 454 00:41:32,570 --> 00:41:34,820 It cannot be. 455 00:41:35,010 --> 00:41:37,500 But if it is true... 456 00:41:37,889 --> 00:41:41,879 rightly the god of warmth denies to us his grace! 457 00:41:42,099 --> 00:41:44,180 Berendeyans! 458 00:41:44,279 --> 00:41:48,150 To him who shall succeed before the morning 459 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,960 to waken love within Snegurochka, 460 00:41:52,190 --> 00:41:54,789 shall, from the tsar's hands, 461 00:41:54,890 --> 00:41:57,590 receive a gift exquisite: 462 00:41:57,690 --> 00:41:59,290 her as his bride. 463 00:42:05,389 --> 00:42:07,079 Illustrious tsar, 464 00:42:07,230 --> 00:42:10,280 Snegurochka shall know love, without question. 465 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:11,900 Trust thee my words! 466 00:42:14,829 --> 00:42:18,789 This poor and lonely shepherd, curly-haired Lel, 467 00:42:19,630 --> 00:42:25,400 to please the blazing Sun-god and the great tsar of light 468 00:42:25,530 --> 00:42:27,500 will help this maid. 469 00:42:27,820 --> 00:42:30,280 Just look into her eyes! 470 00:42:30,380 --> 00:42:32,780 She shall know love ere dawn of day. 471 00:42:33,070 --> 00:42:37,350 Illustrious tsar! Delay my forced exile, - 472 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,500 The fire of my keen love will fan a flame 473 00:42:41,739 --> 00:42:44,500 within Snegurochka's as yet untouched heart. 474 00:42:47,110 --> 00:42:49,500 Mizgir and Lel! 475 00:42:50,090 --> 00:42:54,310 Your promises having heard, I feel at ease 476 00:42:54,439 --> 00:42:58,849 and shall await serenely Yarilo's Day. 477 00:42:59,590 --> 00:43:01,750 When sunset slowly fades, 478 00:43:02,519 --> 00:43:05,009 inside my royal sacred wood, 479 00:43:05,140 --> 00:43:06,880 on this day, 480 00:43:06,981 --> 00:43:11,881 we'll gather all for gaiety and singing. 481 00:43:11,980 --> 00:43:11,980 A c t 3 482 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:13,360 (Rondo and Song of the Beaver) p.182 (Horovod i pesnya pro bobra) p.255 483 00:43:17,810 --> 00:43:20,880 Far up on the distant plain, 484 00:43:20,881 --> 00:43:24,281 far up on the distant plain, 485 00:43:24,380 --> 00:43:27,490 linden tree so proudly stands, 486 00:43:27,590 --> 00:43:30,600 linden tree so proudly stands. 487 00:43:30,699 --> 00:43:33,849 Underneath the linden tree, 488 00:43:33,950 --> 00:43:36,900 underneath the linden tree, 489 00:43:37,099 --> 00:43:40,009 spreads a tent of dazzling white, 490 00:43:40,110 --> 00:43:43,310 spreads a tent of dazzling white. 491 00:43:49,829 --> 00:43:52,780 In it sits a maiden fair, 492 00:43:52,881 --> 00:43:55,881 In it sits a maiden fair, 493 00:43:55,980 --> 00:43:59,140 picks flowers for a wreath... 494 00:43:59,241 --> 00:44:02,641 picks flowers for a wreath... 495 00:44:02,739 --> 00:44:05,600 For whom will the wreath be wound? 496 00:44:05,701 --> 00:44:08,801 For whom will the wreath be wound? 497 00:44:08,802 --> 00:44:08,752 (The Beaver Song) p.187 (Pesnya pro bobra) p.260 498 00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:13,239 Beaver black as ink, in the river swimming, full to over-brimming. 499 00:44:13,339 --> 00:44:17,739 Then on mossy bank, feeling rather better, makes a fine toilette. 500 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,169 Ai, loeli-loeli-loeli! 501 00:44:19,270 --> 00:44:20,720 Ai, loeli-loeli-loeli, ai! 502 00:44:20,820 --> 00:44:23,780 Can you guess for whom 'tis wound? 503 00:44:23,881 --> 00:44:27,081 Can you guess for whom 'tis wound? 504 00:44:27,179 --> 00:44:33,489 She has wound it for her love. 505 00:44:33,590 --> 00:44:34,890 Beaver spies around, 506 00:44:34,991 --> 00:44:38,091 when his fur is shaken, lest he be o'ertaken. 507 00:44:39,539 --> 00:44:42,499 Ai, loeli-loeli-loeli! Ai, loeli-loeli-loeli! 508 00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:45,800 Ai-ai, loeli-loeli! Ai-ai, loeli-loeli! 509 00:44:48,599 --> 00:44:49,869 Beaver, 'tis too late, 510 00:44:49,970 --> 00:44:52,720 hunters come to snare thee, hounds to bite and tear thee! 511 00:44:52,819 --> 00:44:54,380 Ai, loeli-loeli-loeli! 512 00:44:54,481 --> 00:45:00,481 Ai, loeli-loeli-loeli! 513 00:45:03,460 --> 00:45:06,380 Ai-ai-ai-ai... ai-ai-ai-ai... 514 00:45:06,481 --> 00:45:09,381 Ai-ai-ai-ai... ai-ai-ai-ai! 515 00:45:09,482 --> 00:45:12,932 Ai, loeli-loeli-loeli! Ai, loeli-loeli-loeli! Ai! 516 00:46:28,349 --> 00:46:30,819 What lively merrymaking! 517 00:46:31,309 --> 00:46:35,500 Those great in spirit will be in all things great, - 518 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,789 at work, they're truly working, 519 00:46:39,079 --> 00:46:43,500 at song and dance, they spin 'till they fall over! 520 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,070 Only the honest and the good are able 521 00:46:48,210 --> 00:46:53,010 to sing so loudly and to dance so boldly. 522 00:46:53,110 --> 00:46:53,110 (Lell's 3rd Song) p.203 (Tretya pesnya Lelya) p.282 523 00:47:12,349 --> 00:47:17,340 Long ago the clouds to thunder did say: 524 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:23,499 "Roll thy loudest, we will rain for a day, 525 00:47:23,599 --> 00:47:30,660 so the spring be fair and summer last for long! 526 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,880 not a tender flower shall fade and die, 527 00:47:33,981 --> 00:47:37,281 gath'ring berries pretty maids will hie, 528 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:43,160 and the gentle swains to follow them in throng!" 529 00:47:43,260 --> 00:47:46,730 Lel mine, 530 00:47:46,831 --> 00:47:51,131 Lel mine, loeli-loeli, Lel! 531 00:48:03,639 --> 00:48:09,099 In the woods the maidens wander at ease, 532 00:48:09,340 --> 00:48:15,500 plucking berries by the leaf laden trees, 533 00:48:15,599 --> 00:48:23,400 while the distant vale with merry calls doth swell. 534 00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:26,600 There is one ere long has vanished from sight, 535 00:48:26,701 --> 00:48:30,401 Maidens weep and still their cries of delight: 536 00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:36,499 "Could the hated wolf have eaten our young belle?" 537 00:48:36,599 --> 00:48:40,249 Lel mine, 538 00:48:40,350 --> 00:48:44,600 Lel mine, loeli-loeli, Lel! 539 00:49:04,179 --> 00:49:10,400 Now by chance an aged man passed that way, 540 00:49:10,500 --> 00:49:16,999 saw the weeping maids and stopped for to say: 541 00:49:17,099 --> 00:49:24,050 "Silly maidens, are ye sure you are quite well? 542 00:49:24,150 --> 00:49:27,569 She has vanished but to frighten you all, 543 00:49:27,670 --> 00:49:31,170 will not answer tho' companions may call, 544 00:49:31,269 --> 00:49:37,530 hid herself behind some bushes for a spell!" 545 00:49:37,630 --> 00:49:41,839 Lel mine, 546 00:49:41,940 --> 00:49:46,540 Lel mine, loeli-loeli, Lel! 547 00:49:59,150 --> 00:50:01,269 I thank thee, Lel. 548 00:50:01,569 --> 00:50:04,960 Now choose a pleasing maiden for thyself. 549 00:50:05,219 --> 00:50:08,889 Let her, before the people gathered here, 550 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:14,590 kiss thee fondly to thank thee for thy song. 551 00:50:29,929 --> 00:50:32,500 Take me for thine, take me. 552 00:51:17,820 --> 00:51:21,500 Snegurochka, oh stay, a moment linger! 553 00:51:21,599 --> 00:51:25,349 Wilt thou love, wilt thou love me one day? Reveal! 554 00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:32,900 Be still, be still. 555 00:51:33,050 --> 00:51:36,700 Be not so bold, Mizgir! 556 00:51:58,319 --> 00:52:01,500 Am I distraught, with passion madly blinded? 557 00:52:01,849 --> 00:52:05,450 A withered stump I take for my beloved! 558 00:52:05,550 --> 00:52:08,720 and in the shining light of glow-worms' eyes 559 00:52:08,980 --> 00:52:12,500 I seem to see Snegurochka's eyes gleaming. 560 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,250 Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! 561 00:52:58,940 --> 00:53:03,539 'Till dawn of day pursue this phantom shadow! 562 00:53:03,630 --> 00:53:08,110 Pursue apace thy love-disordered fancy! 563 00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:14,529 Only at dawn will thy delusions leave thee. 564 00:53:21,369 --> 00:53:21,369 A c t 4. Fairy Spring's Aria (p.239/242) Stsena Snegurochki s Vesnoyu (p.339/344) 565 00:53:30,580 --> 00:53:35,160 Oh mother dear, with tears of angst and sorrow 566 00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,300 thy poor, forsaken daughter calls on thee. 567 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,540 From thy quiet waters rise to hear the laments 568 00:53:42,659 --> 00:53:45,520 and troubles of Snegurochka, thy child! 569 00:53:48,810 --> 00:53:51,590 Snegurochka, beloved child, 570 00:53:51,790 --> 00:53:54,350 what lackest thou, what is thy wish? 571 00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,589 To love! I fain would love, 572 00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,350 and yet I know not how; 573 00:54:00,619 --> 00:54:02,780 my heart is cold. 574 00:54:02,900 --> 00:54:05,750 Thy father's warnings dire thou hast forgotten. 575 00:54:05,869 --> 00:54:08,600 Love shall lead thee to death untimely. 576 00:54:08,730 --> 00:54:10,560 Then let me die; 577 00:54:10,659 --> 00:54:14,200 to feel love for one moment 578 00:54:14,510 --> 00:54:17,400 I'd cherish more than years of tears and angst. 579 00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:22,090 Oh tender child, I hear thy prayer; the flame of love shall burn in thee. 580 00:54:22,730 --> 00:54:28,480 My wreath of flowers doth conceal a spring of love force without limit. 581 00:54:44,100 --> 00:54:48,889 Ah, mother, what is this? 582 00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:53,600 What charm enfoldeth all the woodland glade! 583 00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:55,700 The lake lures me, 584 00:54:55,850 --> 00:54:59,350 the branches, too, entice me to their shade; 585 00:54:59,849 --> 00:55:04,600 and the sky, mother, heaven! 586 00:55:05,339 --> 00:55:09,600 With love's bewildering fragrance entirely hast thy soul been filled. 587 00:55:10,010 --> 00:55:13,600 Thou shalt gift all thy love to the very first comer, 588 00:55:13,810 --> 00:55:16,209 whoe'er it may be that thou meet'st. 589 00:55:16,379 --> 00:55:18,310 But, precious daughter, 590 00:55:18,499 --> 00:55:21,600 hide thy love from the jealous Sun, Yarilo! 591 00:55:21,739 --> 00:55:24,709 Speed home along small paths through the dim forest, 592 00:55:24,820 --> 00:55:28,600 beneath the leaf-shade, and avoid all meetings. 593 00:55:31,380 --> 00:55:34,600 Farewell, my darling child. 594 00:55:38,339 --> 00:55:43,039 What treasure indescribable I hold within my breast! 595 00:55:43,169 --> 00:55:47,739 I'll take my gift along a footpath hidden; 596 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,350 my feet alone have walked upon it. 597 00:55:53,569 --> 00:55:56,119 Snegurochka! 598 00:55:58,730 --> 00:56:01,010 Snegurochka, 599 00:56:01,420 --> 00:56:04,630 I feel my strength is fading; 600 00:56:04,759 --> 00:56:07,309 in vain I searched all night. 601 00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,100 Stay but a while! 602 00:56:09,651 --> 00:56:11,501 Art thou afraid? 603 00:56:12,690 --> 00:56:15,070 Oh, nay, Mizgir! 604 00:56:15,169 --> 00:56:19,129 It is not fear that doth fill my heart! 605 00:56:19,259 --> 00:56:22,550 But let me gaze upon thy face, 606 00:56:22,670 --> 00:56:25,960 into the flame of thine eyes blazing! 607 00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:31,449 Snegurochka! Speak more such joyous words, speak more, 608 00:56:31,690 --> 00:56:35,300 and my delight shall know no limit! 609 00:56:35,451 --> 00:56:37,001 But see! 610 00:56:37,549 --> 00:56:42,319 But see! E'er brighter and more dire the East doth shine! 611 00:56:44,199 --> 00:56:45,819 'Neath woodland shade, 612 00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:49,820 oh lead thy bride, that rays of sunlight fall in vain! 613 00:56:53,569 --> 00:56:53,569 (Entry of the Berendeys and Song of the Grain) p.270 () p.390 614 00:57:05,590 --> 00:57:13,160 <i>Golden grain we scattered far o'er the plain, Oi, Did-Lado, scattered far over the plain.</i> 615 00:57:13,259 --> 00:57:20,569 We will quickly trample the grain ye sow, Oi, Did-Lado, trample the grain that ye sow! 616 00:57:20,670 --> 00:57:23,930 <i>Say how will ye trample the grain we sow?</i> 617 00:57:24,031 --> 00:57:27,431 (Grain ye sow!) <i>Oi, Did-Lado, trample the grain we sow?</i> 618 00:57:27,531 --> 00:57:29,631 We will drive our horses o'er... 619 00:57:29,730 --> 00:57:32,010 ...every field, <i>We will catch your horses and...</i> 620 00:57:32,111 --> 00:57:37,211 <i>hold them fast, oi Did-Lado, hold them fast!</i> Oi, Did-Lado, wildly drive them over every field! 621 00:57:39,310 --> 00:57:46,800 We will pay fine ransom to buy them back, Oi, Did-Lado, ransom to buy them back. 622 00:57:46,900 --> 00:57:54,379 <i>But what will ye offer to buy them back? Oi, Did-Lado, offer to buy them back?</i> 623 00:57:54,479 --> 00:57:57,900 Just a tender maiden we offer you (<i>What will ye...</i>) 624 00:57:57,901 --> 00:58:01,101 (<i>...offer us?</i>) Oi, Did-Lado, just a maid we offer you! 625 00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,410 (<i>Offer us!</i>) (Just a maid!) <i>Then the number of us will be one more</i> 626 00:58:03,511 --> 00:58:06,761 Then the number of us will be one less. <i>Be one more! Be one more! Oi, Did-Lado,</i> 627 00:58:06,862 --> 00:58:10,812 Oi, Did-Lado, be one less! Oi! <i>be one more, be one more! Oi!</i> 628 00:58:11,879 --> 00:58:15,899 And may your bond be crowned with every blessing 629 00:58:16,009 --> 00:58:19,770 of joy and of abundance! 630 00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:31,990 Illustrious tsar, 631 00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:35,890 thy desire was like a law unto me, 632 00:58:36,009 --> 00:58:38,169 and so I have fulfilled it. 633 00:58:38,270 --> 00:58:42,600 I would ask thee our union to bless! 634 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,250 Is it thy wish, oh maiden Snegurochka, 635 00:58:51,379 --> 00:58:54,600 to place thy fate into thy bridegroom's hands? 636 00:58:54,730 --> 00:58:57,140 Thy hand already promised, 637 00:58:57,269 --> 00:59:00,250 how fares it with thy heart? 638 00:59:00,369 --> 00:59:01,839 Oh tsar! 639 00:59:01,970 --> 00:59:05,159 Ask me a hundred times, 640 00:59:05,290 --> 00:59:09,600 a hundred times I'll tell thee that I love him. 641 00:59:09,699 --> 00:59:09,699 (Snegurochka's solo in "Arioso and Chorus") p.278 p.399 642 00:59:28,929 --> 00:59:35,690 What stirs in me? 643 00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:43,290 Is't ecstasy or death? 644 00:59:43,659 --> 00:59:49,559 What fire profound 645 00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:57,930 doth penetrate my being! 646 01:00:01,590 --> 01:00:07,730 Oh mother Spring, 647 01:00:07,830 --> 01:00:12,570 Oh mother Spring, 648 01:00:12,670 --> 01:00:21,070 I thank thee for this exultation, 649 01:00:21,170 --> 01:00:27,789 I thank thee for this joy, 650 01:00:27,889 --> 01:00:35,129 this honeyed gift of love. 651 01:00:36,659 --> 01:00:41,490 A flood of yearning 652 01:00:41,590 --> 01:00:51,659 and beauty quickly fills my soul. 653 01:00:51,759 --> 01:00:56,959 Oh, Lel, once more 654 01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:05,840 I hear the strain of shepherd's music; 655 01:01:05,940 --> 01:01:10,510 And all my blood, my being, 656 01:01:10,609 --> 01:01:18,649 is afire with melody. 657 01:01:20,779 --> 01:01:29,189 My heart is melting 658 01:01:29,339 --> 01:01:37,390 from the sweet tangs of love. 659 01:01:37,490 --> 01:01:45,389 Girlfriends, I bid ye all farewell, 660 01:01:45,489 --> 01:01:54,290 farewell, beloved bridegroom! 661 01:01:55,259 --> 01:02:04,029 Farewell, my true love! 662 01:02:05,429 --> 01:02:11,279 Oh love of mine, 663 01:02:11,380 --> 01:02:17,390 I'm thine, I'm thine! 664 01:02:18,169 --> 01:02:24,989 And with this glance, 665 01:02:25,089 --> 01:02:33,590 receive my spirit! 666 01:02:33,689 --> 01:02:36,280 Snegurochka, live! 667 01:02:52,079 --> 01:02:54,429 What marvel here, 668 01:02:54,529 --> 01:02:57,459 what strange, mysterious wonder! 669 01:02:58,449 --> 01:03:02,879 Like falling snow she melted 'neath the sun. 670 01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:07,629 And so the maid Snegurochka is gone... 671 01:03:07,750 --> 01:03:10,500 But if she is no more, 672 01:03:10,599 --> 01:03:13,100 then why should I live longer? 673 01:03:36,690 --> 01:03:42,600 The child of Frost, the wintery Snegurochka, has perished. 674 01:03:42,940 --> 01:03:46,650 But with this maid's miraculous departure, 675 01:03:46,739 --> 01:03:50,300 henceforth Frost's interference shall be ended. 676 01:03:50,399 --> 01:03:55,400 So let's cast out the final trace of coldness in our souls 677 01:03:55,540 --> 01:03:58,450 and turn towards the Sun. 678 01:03:58,569 --> 01:04:00,909 Oh merry Lel, 679 01:04:01,010 --> 01:04:04,269 give song unto Yarilo! 680 01:04:04,369 --> 01:04:04,369 (Final Chorus. Hymn to the Sun-God Yarilo) p.287 (Zaklyuchitelnyy hor. Pesn Yarile-Solntsu) p.412 681 01:04:05,070 --> 01:04:09,320 Light and vigor, god Yarilo! 682 01:04:09,421 --> 01:04:13,521 Resplendent Sun, light-bearer! 683 01:04:13,629 --> 01:04:19,160 None in the world is fairer! 684 01:04:19,250 --> 01:04:22,070 Light and vigor, god Yarilo, 685 01:04:22,171 --> 01:04:24,871 resplendent Sun, light-bearer! 686 01:04:24,972 --> 01:04:27,622 Resplendent Sun, light-bearer! 687 01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:30,340 None in the world is fairer! 688 01:04:33,241 --> 01:04:37,741 Light, 689 01:04:37,842 --> 01:04:40,192 our 690 01:04:40,293 --> 01:04:44,543 God, 691 01:04:44,644 --> 01:04:49,044 grant to 692 01:04:49,195 --> 01:04:51,745 us! 693 01:04:51,946 --> 01:04:55,946 Grant to 694 01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,720 us! (The End) 695 01:04:58,771 --> 01:05:00,700 Original subs by Eus (Mar 2011), heavily revised by Niffiwan (Jan 2025), partly using translation of Edward Agate (1908)