Irina Maslennikova . Snegurochka's Melting (a.k.a The Death Scene)

Irina Maslennikova sings Snegurochkas Melting Scene from Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden) by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. Kirill Kondrashin conducts the orchestra and choir of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. Recorded in 1946.

Great czar,
Ask me a hundred times, a hundred times I will answer
That I love him.
In the bleak mornings light,
I revealed my love to my chosen one
And threw myself in his arm.

(The first ray of rising sun falls on Snegurochka)

But what is it with me,
Bliss or Death?
What rupture, what longing.
O Mother Spring,
I thank you for this joy,
I thank you for the sweet gift of love.
What ecstasy, what sweetness flows through me.
O Lel, I can hear your enchanting songs in my soul.
Fire is in my eyes, and in my heart,
And my blood is fire.

I love and I thaw
From the sweet feelings of love.
Farewell all my girlfriends,
Farewell to you, my betrothed.

O my dear, I am yours.
My last glance is for you, my dear.
(Choir):
O wonderful, unheard-of miracle!
Like snow of spring, she is melting in the sun.
And the Snow Maiden is no more

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Classical
• music
• russian
• opera
• soprano
• coloratura

[ManricoV]

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