Song to the Moon

 Another Halloween performance video (done on the 26th but schedules happen). Am strongly considering doing more performance videos even outside Halloween. Also, have been trying to figure out how to give the opera Rusalka a happy ending without going the Disney route. (I'd seen it before, so I knew what would happen, but it upset my boyfriend, hence why we're trying to rewrite the ending.)

Translation: Moon, high up in the sky, Your light sees afar. You travel over the world Seeing into people's homes. Oh moon, stay a while, Tell me where my love is. Tell him, oh moon, that my arms embrace him, That he, at least for a moment, should see Me in his dreams. Shine your beams on him, Let him know I wait for him. If this Human soul dreams of me, Let the vision awaken. Oh moon, do not fade.

Der Holle Rache

 

So, after nearly a decade of being online, here at last is a performance by Yours Truly. This video was taken by my boyfriend yesterday at his Halloween party.  

                     Translation:

                      Hell's vengeance boils within my heart.

                     Death and despair flame around me.

                     If through you, Sarastro does not feel the pain of death                 

                    You shall be my daughter no more.

                     Disowned be forever,

                     Forsaken be forever,

                     Destroyed be forever,

                     By all bonds of Nature,

                     If through you Sarastro does not become pale.

                     Hear, gods of revenge! Hear a mother's oath!