Tamara and the Demon

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"Know'st thou, Tamára, what is mortal love?
A febrile movement of the blood!
Years roll away—the pulse can scarcely move,
Love's wither'd branches cease to bud.
Who can resist new beauty's luring bait?
Who, parting, never shed a tear?
Who can withstand the tedium of fate,
The weariness of all things here?
No, my beloved, believe, 'tis not thy lot
To perish in a living grave,
In silence, languish on this narrow spot,
Of brutal jealousy the slave."

Il demone è un'opera lirica in 3 atti di Anton Rubinstein su libretto di Pavel A. Viskovatov, ispirato al poema omonimo di Michail Jur'evič Lermontov (1841).
Il poema Il demone di Lermontov fu composto nel 1838, durante l'esilio nel Caucaso del poeta russo, e pubblicato nel 1840. Il soggetto del poema di Lermontov, a sua volta, ricorda "Heaven and Earth" (Cielo e terra) di Byron: un demone che risiede sulla Terra, orgoglioso per la sua potenza ma triste per non poter amare, scorge la principessa Tamara che attende l'arrivo del promesso sposo per convolare a nozze. Il demone si innamora di Tamara e fa sì che il fidanzato venga ucciso. Tamara si chiude per il dolore in un monastero. Il demone seduce la ragazza con la sua eloquenza; poi la uccide con un suo bacio di morte. Gli angeli accolgono l'anima di Tamara, mentre il demone rimane come prima: solo, orgoglioso e senza amore.
Opere di Michail Aleksandrovič Vrubel'; Mihály Zichy; Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky.

Musica: Tamara's Romance from The demon (1871) -Tamara Milashkina

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  • @dirtyautomaton "It’s what she doesn’t dream

    that scares her, panic she can’t account for, faces

    familiar but not known, déjà vu

    making a mess of memory"

  • "Why on earth did she find him so attractive 

    the first time she met him, propping the wall

    at an awkward party, clearly trying to drink

    himself into some sort of conversation?

    Was it the dark uncomfortable reserve

    she took upon herself to tease him out of,

    asking, Are you a vampire? That depends,

    he stammered..."

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