#Die Csardasfurstin

[syrenki]

yeah yeah yeah opera is not a real listenable music genre but an old rich white people gag, okay yadda yadda yadda. but have a glass of wine and watch how this hits you !

[teddybasmanov]

Umm, so another Felix and Agent A song? It's from "The Csárdás Princess" an operetta by Kalman - from one of my - if not the - most favourite operettas.

About meeting your lover after a long time being apart, a lot of things having happened with both of you (maybe including meeting other people), your old whirlwind romance seeming like a dream, but now that you see each other again, that dream seems so much more real.

That's pretty much what's going through their heads during that damn interrogation.

Also, the lyrics don't really show it too well, but there's also a whole thing about how even though you're physically together now, you cannot be together again. I also feel like in the Russian version there's a lot more blame being thrown around - I've just found you / And now I'm losing your forever again / ... / You've always toyed with me / And were cold in your soul / The only one to blame for everything ending / Is you alone - sounds like something Felix would think when reminding them of Paris doesn't work (and considering it was clearly them who left him there and them who always had the upper hand and more information and more experience).

And of course, my favourite bit at the very end is Even if it was just a dream / We're seeing it again.

Hungarian version:

German version:

Russian version (plus a movie clip):

Full (original) lyrics translation (from this source):

SYLVA: I think of it. (sung) Festive laughter, celebration, Friends around me, jubilation, Music playing, lights ablaze! EDWIN:  Glasses clinking, waiters beaming, Dancers whirling, jewels gleaming, Everything a golden haze! SYLVA: All of us were touched by magic, A dream to cherish and adore. Such memories as these stay with us all our lives. Yes, for ever more. BOTH: But happiness and love’s enchantment Are gone for ever and a day. SYLVA: Like fading phantom figures They are out of reach. So far away! EDWIN:  Where are they now, Words so devotedly spoken? Gone like a dream, Gone with the dawning of day. Where are they now, Vows which could never be broken? Where are they now? Where are they now? Where are the love and the hope? Where are they now? Promises which none could sever, Now so soon they’re gone forever, And a husband’s at your side! SYLVA: Other eyes so sweetly smiling, Soft embraces, words beguiling Edwin and his lovely bride! EDWIN:  How could you destroy that magic, Destroy our own enchanted spell? The love I felt for you no words could ever tell, None could ever tell. BOTH: And yet of such a tender passion The memory alone is left; SYLVA: Two wounded hearts of all their cherished dreams bereft, Ever bereft. Where are they now, Words so devotedly spoken? Gone like a dream. Gone with the dawning of day. Where are they now, Vows which could never be broken, BOTH: Where are they now? Where are they now? Where are the love and the hope? Where are they now? SYLVA: Just a fairy-tale romance, How confusing, Just a momentary fling, How amusing! Just a comic episode, Simply splendid, So let’s laugh now it has ended! La la la la la la la. Simply splendid, La la la la la la la. Now it’s ended. BOTH: Just a fairy-tale romance, Unenduring. Now it’s over. Dead and gone! (Dance) Where are they now? Where are they now? Where are the love and the laughter, Oh where are they now?

[world---in---my---eyes]

Zhanna Glebova as Silva in screen adaptation of the Emmerich Kálmán operetta “Die Csárdásfürstin” (”The Csárdás Princess”) - “Silva” (1981) Director: Yan Frid

[lesser-known-composers]

Emmerich Kalman -  Die Csardasfurstin (The Gypsy Princess) : Act I: Duett: Sylva, ich will nur dich (Sylva, Edwin) · Yvonne Kenny

Artist: Michael Roider Artist: Mojca Erdmann Artist: Marko Kathol Artist: Karl-Michael Ebner Artist: Hellmuth Klumpp Artist: Heinz Holecek Artist: Yvonne Kalman Artist: Marian Vach

Choir: Slovak Philharmonic Choir Conductor: Richard Bonynge

Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

[musicitynl-blog]

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[musicainextenso]

Today we continue the Operetta-week with a famouse piece from the Csárdásfürstin.

Emmerich KÁLMÁN - Die Csárdásfürstin - Szilvia’s intro

Enjoy! - Editor-in-chief

[lesser-known-composers]

Emmerich Kalman - Die Csardasfurstin (The Gypsy Princess) : Act I: Duett: Sylva, ich will nur dich (Sylva, Edwin)

[world---in---my---eyes]

Zhanna Glebova & Igor Dmitriev in screen adaptation of the Emmerich Kálmán operetta “Die Csárdásfürstin” (”The Csárdás Princess”) - “Silva” (1981) Director: Yan Frid

[lesser-known-composers]

Emmerich Kalman - Die Csardasfurstin (The Gypsy Princess) : Act I: Duet: Sylvia, ich will nur dich 

Artist: Martina Serafin Artist: Ferdinand von Bothmer Artist: Kerstin Grotrian Artist: Adrian Erod Artist: Harald Serafin Artist: Mirjana Irosch Artist: Frigyes Harsanyi Artist: Michael Gampe Artist: Gottfried Falkenstein Choir: Morbisch Festival Choir Conductor: Rudolf Bibl Orchestra: Morbisch Festival Orchestra Composer: Emmerich Kalman