Melodrama | But now I feel a strange mist in my head

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by Julius Zeyer (1841 - 1901)

Translation © by Patrick John Corness

Melodram

Language: Czech (Čeština)

Our translations: ENG

Mahulena:
Teď ale v hlavě dělá se mi divná mha... 
(Vstane) 
A nohy moje do půdy se boří… Co to je?... 
Ó, sladký sne, jenž sedáš na víčka… 
už vidím vše jen šedým soumrakem... 
Co údy moje divně křehnou tak?... 
Vše mizí, mizí … jen ta bolest zde, 
kde srdce posud tlouklo... 
Ó, to je smrt? V mé paměti 
jak mouchy bzučení… 
toť slovo nějaké... (Slaběji a slaběji)
Radúz... Radúz... Radúz...

(Mezi koncem řeči mění 
se Mahulena v štíhlý topol, 
v němž podoba její se ztrácí úplně, 
listy stromu ševelí 
a v šumu jejich zmírá pomalu slovo „Radúz".)

Opona

Text Authorship:

by Julius Zeyer (1841 - 1901) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Josef Suk (1874 - 1935), "Melodram", op. 13 no. 9 (1897-1898) [ voice and piano ], from Radúz a Mahulena, no. 9, revised 1912 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Patrick John Corness) , "Melodrama", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Patrick John Corness

This text was added to the website: 2023-11-08
Line count: 19
Word count: 99

Melodrama

Language: English after the Czech (Čeština)

Mahulena:
But now I feel a strange mist in my head... 
(She rises) 
And my feet are rooted in the ground… What is this?... 
O sweet dream, resting on my eyelids… 
now I see it all as in a grey twilight… 
Why do my limbs turn so strangely numb?... 
Everything is disappearing, disappearing… 
only that pain is left, here, where my heart used to beat… 
O, is this death? In my memory 
there is a kind of buzzing of flies … 
it is some word... (Fainter and fainter) 
Radúz.., Radúz... Radúz…

(As her speech is coming to an end, 
Mahulena turns into a slender poplar tree 
and her likeness disappears altogether, 
the leaves on the tree rustle 
and they gradually muffle the word “Radúz.”)

Curtain

Text Authorship:

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a text in Czech (Čeština) by Julius Zeyer (1841 - 1901)
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This text was added to the website: 2023-11-08
Line count: 19
Word count: 125