Elisabeth Musical Part Fifteen (English Subtitles)

[amaryllische]

Well, "es schreitet aus" is very hard to translate... It is a pun actually: "Ausschreitung" is a violent excess or a riot. I like how you solved that translation issue. Very clever.

[crownprincetaffe]

So was Mary Vetsera jewish? Or is the song "Hate" refering to another one of Rudolphs women - sense some historian's say he had a lot of mistress...Although Mary might have been the main one....but that's debatable...

[HouseOnSunset]

@crownprincetaffe You seriously think Mary Vetsera was the only one of Rudolf's booty calls? She was, however, the only one stupid enough to agree to kill herself for him.

[crownprincetaffe]

@HouseOnSunset that's a complete anti-Rudolph myth! the so called "libertine" and physcopathic womanizer myth that has been built around Rudolph is false. He had a few mistress (mainly Mitzi Casper - who he was truely in love with) then he found Mary after been introduced to her by the Prince of Wales at a horse racing festival. I agree he probably never "loved" Mary, but he did care about her and she was completely in love with him....He also probably met a girl in Prague

[crownprincetaffe]

@HouseOnSunset who he fell in love with (we don't know for sure) but he told the story to a friend a few years after it apperanlty happend that he met a young girl in Prague, but her parents didn't want her marrying an Austrian aristocrat so they banned her from seeing him and moved her to the country, she snuck back into Wien only to die of sickness a few days later (again apperantly) so yes Rudolph had a few interactions but he was no Don Giovanni.

[robert107284]

@something9313

I believe it's about the fact that Rudolph promised Hungary their independence when he is to be emperor.

[chocobasse10]

Doesn't Rudolf say "was Ich nicht sage zu verstehen"? Meaning "then you won't find it so difficult to understand what I don't say"?

[chocobasse10]

Damn, I feel so sorry for Rudolf! He just wants his mother to notice him and talk to him. He really needs her, and she needs him too at the end of it.

A little something I noticed: zither is supposed to be sitar. It's a kind of guitar or a banjo.

[knotbox]

@chocobasse10 The Zither is a german instrument, not unlike a hammered dulcimer, except you pluck it.

[queenmedesa]

That poor boy!

[floppydisk909]

Thank you for translating these!