A keresés eredménye

When everything darkens

Chorus: Just beware...
Sarah: Sometimes on a winter night I stay up and think what distresses my mind...
Chorus: Just beware...
Sarah: Sometimes on a winter night I go to a sweet dream and then fear gets to reign...
Chorus: Just beware...
Sarah: Sometimes on a winter night something I wait for a long time even though I can't understand it at all...
Chorus: Just beware...
Sarah: Sometimes on a winter night I almost would let danger seduce me and my mind whirl...
 
Chorus: Just beware innocent...
Sarah: I hear a voice calling in the night...
Chorus: Just beware innocent...
Sarah: I feel passion searching...
 
Count von Krolock:
In the night you need wings
I will show you like a mirror
You will get everything you've dreamt
I will fulfil our world
Fall with me into the shadows
Go on the edge of the cliff
When danger changes to suspicion and time disappears!
When you I pull to the shadows and carry with the night!
 
Only your kind miracle can compensate the deed!
Sarah: My heart is about to be set aflame!
 
Sarah and Count von Krolock:
The universe has opened!
When night becomes eternity!
When night becomes...eternity...
 
Sarah:
Too long have I wished that I would fall in love
Night dims the mind
When everything darkens
Like this I stay in the wave of feelings!
Love breaks the spell just of my dreams
Now it breaks everything
When everything darkens
Away I go to the shadows of the night!
 
Chorus: Just beware...
Sarah: Sometimes on a winter night I want to run from you while I still can...
Chorus: Just beware...
Sarah: From there you come, I go blindly with you, sharing with me the flames of Hell...
Chorus: Just beware...
Sarah: Sometimes on a winter night I live of life just a moment, then you alone can possess me...
Chorus: Just beware...
Sarah: Sometimes on a winter night I want like you wish, even though it breaks me...
 
Chorus: Just beware innocent...
Sarah: I hear a voice calling in the night...
Chorus: Just beware innocent...
Sarah: I feel passion searching...
 
Sarah and Count von Krolock:
In the night you need wings / In the night I need wings
You will show me like a mirror / I will show you like a mirror
I will get everything I've dreamt / You will get everything you've dreamt
I will fulfil our world / You will fulfil our world
Fall with you into the shadows / Fall with me into the shadows
I go on the edge of the cliff / Go on the edge of the cliff
When danger changes to suspicion and time disappears! / When danger changes to suspicion and time disappears!
When you I pull to the shadows and carry with the night! / When you I pull to the shadows and carry with the night!
 
Only your kind miracle can compensate the deed!
Sarah: My heart is about to be set aflame!
 
Sarah and Cont von Krolock:
The universe has opened!
When night becomes eternity!
When night becomes...eternity...
 
Sarah:
Too long have I wished that I would fall in love
Night dims the mind
Sarah and Count von Krolock:
When everything darkens
Like this I stay in the wave of feelings!
 
Love breaks the spell only in dreams
 
Sarah and Count von Krolock:
Now it all splinters
When everything darkens
Away I fall into the shadows of the night!
 
When everything darkens
Away I fall into the shadows of the night!
When everything darkens
Away I fall into the shadows of the night!
 
Count von Krolock:
No! We cannot yet fall
A small moments pleasure can wait
That with the new night grows, that's why I don't hurry
Shadow of the moon on the ground, I will show you the path
When the next I night I will bring you to dance
 

Invitation to the Midnight Ball

Goodnight, don't be alarmed!
Yearning for the Angel of the Night brings to you!
Now time is of the nightly ball, you will get the invitation from me
With you I dance until the break of dawn
In the time of the full moon, I will make you a woman!
 
Surely you don't want life to continue like that?
Or can you settle for it?
I don't believe you would settle for it
 
Do you pray, until you get only a bitter mind?
Or can you settle for it?
It is a lie that you would settle for it!
 
When you learn sins take (you) to Hell
You still always foresaw:
It was the only way to get you into chains
Many trusted lies ja brought gifts
Betrayal only brought pain and created revolt
 
All that you want you will have!
I will take you on a journey on the wings of the night!
To a new truthful word
In the heart of the night so intoxicating
 
Believe in the dream when you get the invitation to the midnight ball!
 
All that you want you will have!
I will take you on a journey on the wings of the night!
Everyday fades with its troubles
Your dreams I will make real
 
Believe in the dream when you get the invitation to the midnight ball!
 
Then you get!
 

Red Boots

It is possible or not?
I can not find the answer.
I'm so tired of someone else's pointer to live
Everything is in my hands
And no one will prove me
What to accept a gift is to sin
The path is not close - well, let
I'll be back in the morning
A lot of sleep
I will pray to God
And with Dad I will embrace
Goodbye, former sadness
I am pleased to drop this load
And incomprehensible
Feeling hug
I aspire to somewhere
 
I'm weightless
As a bright angel in the clouds
And unfamiliar
I neither repent nor fear
 
Only the heart knows the answer
Remember - nothing should be regretted, no
 
Although I dare not
Full of doubt
To give in to temptation
But something is stronger than me, yes!
 
This call is eternal
The mind is powerless in front of him
The path is endless
And our lot is inevitable
And we fly
In the darkness we fly
 

Books (reprise)

[Professor Abronsius:]
Elegies, cantatas,
Letters, chronicles and dates,
Plagiarisms, surrogates,
Catechisms, summaries,
Odes, fables and pamphlets,
And frivolous plots,
Bound in silk, velvet and leather,
Seem to have been kept in here
For hundreds of years!
 
[Alfred:]
— Professor, I've found Sarah!
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
Robespierre, da Vinci, Lessing
And Boccaccio together with Dante,
Dickens, Darwin, Goethe, Heine
And Rostand's ardent genius,
Thomas Moore, Diderot and Byron
In perfect condition,
And Cervantes, and Seneca.
There is no library like this
In the whole world!
 
[Alfred:]
— But she doesn't want to be rescued.
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
A legacy was bequeathed
To future generations,
Otherwise, without a doubt,
We would have stayed ignorant.
Who feeds on wisdom,
In him intelligence awakes,
And customs improve,
And truth comes
Into the world!
 
— Have you memorized all this well, my boy?
 

Ball of vampires

[Magda:]
You’ll easily conquer everyone in this life
If you understand a simple truth:
Be a skunk, forget about conscience,
Otherwise you’ll be done for nothing.
 
[Magda & Herbert:]
Each fight is won by the strongest one, —
These are not mere words at all.
Hit the mark, don’t have pity on anyone.
Know that only force will always be right.
 
[All vampires:]
We are leaving the gloom of night,
The time of our power is nearing.
Our souls are dead, we are creatures of darkness.
Each of you will be our new victim.
 
We are attacking!
Even though our souls are dead,
We are more alive than the living,
And you are our food.
 
Now
The world has accepted our power.
Each
Of us has tasted blood.
And
Vampires invite you to ball,
Vampires invite you to ball.
 
Place flowers at Lucifer’s throne,
Burn the Heaven without mercy and fear.
This death race shall not end!
The whole world belongs to scoundrels and bastards.
 
[Vampire group 2:]
Vampires invite to ball!
The world has accepted our power.
Vampires invite to ball!
The world has accepted our power.
Vampires invite to ball!
The world has accepted our power.
Vampires invite to ball!
The world has accepted our power.
 
[Vampire group 3:]
Place flowers at Lucifer’s throne,
Burn the Heaven without mercy and fear.
This death race shall not end!
The whole world belongs to scoundrels and bastards.
 
Place flowers at Lucifer’s throne,
Burn the Heaven without mercy and fear.
This death race shall not end!
The whole world belongs to scoundrels and bastards.
 
[All vampires:]
We are who we are, and we don’t take orders from anyone.
Now we invite this mad world to dance.
 
[Vampire groups 1 & 4:]
Vampires invite to ball!
The world has accepted our power.
Vampires invite to ball!
The world has accepted our power.
 
[All vampires:]
We are who we are, and we don’t take orders from anyone.
Now we invite this mad world to dance.
 
[Vampire groups 1 & 4:]
Vampires invite to ball!
The world has accepted our power.
Vampires invite to ball!
The world has accepted our power.
Vampires invite to ball!
 
[All vampires:]
Drink blood and don’t care about morality.
Your souls will get steel cold.
Drink blood and don’t care about morality.
Your souls will get steel cold.
 
A cruel beast is sleeping in each of us,
And nothing is going to stop us now.
A cruel beast is sleeping in each of us,
And nothing is going to stop us now.
 
Vampires invite the whole world to ball!
 

Gloom of night

[Vampire 1:]
Make a step towards me into gloom,
Giving yourself up to uninhibited passion.
The light of day is your worst enemy,
It has no power over you anymore.
 
Feel the night with all your soul,
Share in its dark mystery,
Drive the doubts away
And believe that dreams are real.
 
[Vampire 2:]
Toll will be heard,
And, having their shelter abandoned,
All the devils will break free,
Angels will fall.
 
[Vampires 1 & 2:]
And the craving for fresh blood
Gets keener from day to day,
As this hunger can’t be stilled
And killing is our fate.
 
[All vampires:]
Curse the day! It reaves us of peace.
Feel the infinity and the greatness of the darkness!
We are given the feeling of all-embracing emptiness by
Gloom of night
[Vampire group 1:]
Gloom of night.
 
[Vampire group 2:]
Dies irae, Kyrie! Libera me, Domine!
Dies irae, Kyrie! Requiem da, Domine!
Dies irae, Kyrie! Libera me, Domine!
Dies irae, Kyrie! Requiem da, Domine!
Dies irae, Kyrie! Libera me, Domine!
Dies irae, Kyrie! Requiem da, Domine!
Exultate, Kyrie! Pie agne, Domine!
Dies irae, Kyrie! Sanctus, sanctus, exultate!
Dies irae, Kyrie! Libera me, Domine!
Dies irae, Kyrie! Requiem da, Domine!
 
[Vampire group 1:]
Gloom of night! — feel it with all your soul.
Gloom of night! — close your eyes to start seeing clearly.
Gloom of night! — gives you freedom and peace.
Gloom of night! — may it always be with you.
Gloom of night!
Gloom of night!
Gloom of night is with you!
 
[Magda:]
The dead will rise from their coffins,
Inspiring fear in all the living.
[Magda & Herbert:]
Hopes will return to dust,
And the eternal gloom will set in.
 
Our order is chaos.
We are predators in darkness,
And our lair is at the bottom.
We have no other choise.
 
[All vampires:]
Curse the day! It reaves us of peace.
Feel the infinity and the greatness of the darkness!
We are given the feeling of all-embracing emptiness by
Gloom of night
[Vampire group 1:]
Gloom of night.
 
[Vampire group 2:]
Carpe noctem, lamia! Decet diem exsecrari!
Sanguim suga, belua! Debet pravum exsequari!
Inquiem perpetuum dona nobis, Satanas!
Bestia diaboli, dona nobis damnationem!
Carpe noctem, lamia! Decet diem exsecrari!
Sanguim suga, belua! Debet pravum exsequari!
Inquiem perpetuum dona nobis, Satanas!
Bestia diaboli, dona nobis damnationem!
Sanguim suga, belua! Debet pravum exsequari!
Carpe noctem, lamia! Decet diem exsecrari!
 
[Vampire group 1:]
Gloom of night! — feel it with all your soul.
Gloom of night! — close your eyes to start seeing clearly.
Gloom of night! — gives you freedom and peace.
Gloom of night! — may it always be with you.
 
[Vampire group 3:]
Carpe noctem! Carpe noctem!
Carpe noctem! Carpe noctem!
Carpe noctem! Carpe noctem!
Carpe noctem! Carpe noctem!
 
[Vampire group 1:]
Gloom of night! — feel it with all your soul.
Gloom of night! — close your eyes to start seeing clearly.
Gloom of night! — gives you freedom and peace.
Gloom of night! — may it always be with you.
 
[All vampires:]
Make a step towards me into gloom,
Giving yourself up to uninhibited passion.
The light of day is your worst enemy,
It has no power over you anymore.
 
Feel the night with all your soul,
Share in its dark mystery,
Drive the doubts away
And believe that dreams are real.
 

Garlic

Versions: #1
[Chagal & guests:]
Spicy, hot,
Our best friend!
 
Having a glass of vodka,
Smoking a tobacco pipe,
Having a nice dance with a young maid
To the fiddle music
In the evening.
 
[Baran:]
We'll be munching over our bowles...
[Dragan:]
...Until we are full.
[Moron:]
Even all the thoughts...
[Dragan:]
...Have got permeated...
[Baran, Dragan & Moron:]
...With the smell of garlic.
[All:]
With the smell of garlic!
 
Garlic!
 
[Chagal & guests:]
Hot, savoury, —
Everyone knows it.1
Our best doctor
Is called garlic.
 
Who was small, will become a giant,
The meek one will be harder than steel,
Who crawled, will run,
The one who lay, will get up.
 
[Magda:]
The young only want to grope,
And the old only gab.
[Chagal:]
But garlic will quickly help you
To become an ardent Romeo.
 
[Rebecca:]
There is nothing better than it,
You can see it for yourself.
[All:]
It works wonders!
It works wonders!
It works wonders!
It works wonders!
 
Hot, savoury,
Our best doctor!
 
[Dragan:]
Who is that?
[Baran:]
A stranger.
[Moron:]
Yes.
[Magda:]
Two.
[Dragan:]
Well!
[Rebecca:]
Frozen!
[Magda:]
Stiff with cold!
[Dragan:]
Covered with ice!
[Moron:]
And likely...
[Magda & Rebecca:]
...For ever!
 
[Chagal:]
The guests can find lodgment here in hotel.
[Rebecca:]
Magda, bring a chair!
[Chagal:]
You are welcome here, take my word for it!
[Rebecca:]
Hot water! I'll manage to relieve the cramps.
 
[Chagal:]
We'll rub his nose with vodka...
[Dragan:]
...With mustard...
[Moron:]
...With pepper...
[Baran:]
...With garlic.
[Chagal:]
With smelling...
[All:]
...Spicy, savoury, hot...
[Rebecca:]
Give me hot water!
[Magda:]
Here you are!
 
[Guests:]
Wuscha, buscha… Wuscha, buscha!
Wuscha, buscha… Wuscha, buscha!
Wuscha, buscha… Wuscha, buscha!
Wuscha, buscha… Wuscha, buscha!
 
Maga bogah… Maga bogah!
Maga bogah… Maga bogah!
Maga bogah… Maga bogah!
Maga bogah… Maga bogah!
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
— What do you think of those small round things, my boy?
[Alfred:]
— Small? They are simply huge!
[Professor Abronsius:]
— Not those, you fool! Those over there.
[Alfred:]
— You are feeling better, professor?
[Professor Abronsius:]
— That's garlic! Garlic!
[Alfred:]
— You believe that...
[Professor Abronsius:]
—The goal is within our mission's reach. Fine host!
[Chagal:]
— Chagal is my name. At your service. I am glad that you...
[Professor Abronsius:]
— Tell me, is there some castle nearby?
[Chagal:]
— A castle? No. There's no any castle here. Neither a castle nor a... we don't even have a windmill here!
Hey, has anyone seen a castle or a windmill here?
[Village fool:]
— Yes, the castle...
[Chagal:]
— There you are, no castle, no windmill. And that's just a village fool.
[Village fool:]
— But the castle...
[Professor Abronsius:]
— And why is everyone here wearing garlic around his neck?
[Chagal:]
— Garlic?
 
I will answer your question.
[Rebecca:]
Boils...
[Dragan:]
...Ulcer...
[Moron:]
...And diarrhea...
[Chagal, Rebecca & Magda:]
...Can be healed by spicy, savoury, hot...
[Chagal, Rebecca, Magda, Baran, Dragan & Moron:]
...Our omnipotent friend garlic!
It has already helped us many times!
 
Hot, savoury, —
Everyone knows it!
Our best doctor
Is called garlic!
 
And every evening
We heal scabies, flu, and liver troubles
With garlic.
 
[Chagal:]
— And now let me show you to the room.
 
[All:]
Spicy, juicy, —
It gives us strength.
We are sure
It will renew our youth.
 
It eases distress
And cleanses our blood.
Who crawled, will run,
The one who lay, will get up!
 
So let our
Great doctor garlic
Always
Heal us!
 

• 1. I.e. «Everyone knows garlic».

Ball

[Count von Krolock:]
I am pleased to welcome you again, brothers!
A wonderful dinner will be served soon.
That time a peasant was our meal,
Pale and puny, but I've been appealing fate
For a coming year to satisfy our hunger.
 
The smell of fresh blood has woken eternal hunger.
[Count von Krolock and Herbert:]
Who will satisfy this hunger?
[Vampires:]
None of us shall ever be full!
 
[Count von Krolock:]
The time of a new sacrifice has come. Let's perform the ritual!
[Count von Krolock and Herbert:]
Who will satisfy this hunger?
[Vampires:]
None of us shall ever be full!
 
Let the world thrill with horror!
This bloody feast shall never end.
Vampire can't satisfy his violent hunger.
 
[Count von Krolock:]
Don't lose hope!
At the behest of stars
A long-awaited innocent
Guest has come to our place.
The prophecy has come true!
 
The doors to the dusk hall will open,
And a moment later
Star child
Will enchant our midnight ball with her beauty.
I foretold this
 
And, constantly caring for you,
Will be generous this time.
In order for your eagerness not to die away
Now two mortals are intended by me as a sacrifice
For you!
 
[Vampires:]
God is forgotten, so is His name,
And there’s nothing sacred left on the earth
More. The limit of our wanderings is unapproachable.
Having no peace, we flee from light.
Eternal life is our curse.
 
Away with the false doubts!
We and night are eternally one,
We and night are one for ever.
 
[Count von Krolock:]
You will learn the price of death and live on your own
Far away from all the things of the past.
[Count von Krolock and Sarah:]
Darkness reigns over the world,
And the earth can’t be seen anymore.
 
[Sarah:]
The sweet dope of temptation lures me.
[Count von Krolock:]
How can you resist it?
[Count von Krolock and Sarah:]
Darkness reigns over the world,
And my soul is longing to be in this darkness.
 

Over the horizon

[Alfred:]
Stars are looking down.
O my loved one, wake up!
I want a moment alone with you.
Sarah, make an appearance!
Respond to my appeal!
Are you really going to refuse me on a night like this?
 
[Sarah:]
Why sighing in the moonlight?
Fall silent at last!
Father's on his guard.
 
[Alfred:]
I love you!
[Sarah:]
I beg you, do be quiet!
[Alfred:]
We'll be together forever.
[Sarah:]
What kind of man are you?!
 
[Alfred:]
Try to realize...
[Sarah:]
Dad will hear!
[Alfred:]
Sarah, listen...
[Sarah:]
I feel so choky in here!
 
Over the horizon
I will become free for ever,
Over the horizon
My dream will come true.
 
[Alfred:]
The wall between us will collapse,
Sarah, I need you alone.
And we will fly
Above the birds.
My love
Knows no borders.
 
Over the horizon
A vast land lies,
Over the horizon
A completely new kind of life awaits us.
 
[Alfred and Sarah:]
A world of freedom,
A world of happiness...
 
[Sarah:]
Romantic dreaming by moonlight
Is well if you have nothing to do.
But I have already accepted
Another invitation, frankly speaking!
 
[Alfred:]
I'll accompany you.
[Sarah:]
I'm in a horrible hurry.
[Alfred:]
It's too dark!
[Sarah:]
I'll go anyway!
[Alfred:]
But where shall we go?
[Sarah:]
I don't know the way.
[Alfred:]
The howl of wolves is heard from beyound the forest!
[Sarah:]
Everything is in God's hands.
[Alfred:]
The wind is moaning in the night.
[Sarah:]
I should, I want to believe
That...
 
[Sarah and Alfred:]
...Over the horizon
A vast land lies,
Over the horizon
A completely new kind of life awaits us.
 
A world of freedom,
A world of happiness...
 

Facts

[Professor Abronsius:]
Frankly, I haven't understood
Who is that odd gentleman.
 
[Chagal:]
A cripple passed by.
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
But everyone is afraid of him!
 
Facts, facts,
Facts are the basis of everything.
 
I want to know
Who he is,
How did he manage
To disturb your peace,
Who has attempted
At night time
To make a hole
In my precious skull.
 
Among all-embracing madness,
I am tranquil and sensible.
Checking things out many times,
I believe unbiased facts
Only.
My thinking is clear and straight.
 
To arrive at the truth,
I'll have to take a trouble.
I study the positive
In depth promisingly
Not for nothing.
It's clear for me.
 
I don't accept secret things,
I value truth more. 1
Aspiration for knowledge
Torments and gnaws me.
What, and where, and how, and why?
Who, when, what for, where to, whom?
 
[Magda, Rebecca, Chagal:]
We'd like to forget all the troubles for a moment.
Today is not the time for stupid questions, but
You yourself, without doubt, know
That it is useless to argue with donkeys.
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
I promptly check out
Any surmise,
And form an opinion,
And figure the truth out.
 
I've been trying to analyze
The world from my cradle,
I dissected toys,
Pursuing a great goal
Since childhood years.
 
And I won't let anyone
To deceive me,
Although it's in all people's nature to lie,
I understood it at school.
 
Though it won't be easy for me
To find the answers to the questions,
I will find them in prospect,
For my thinking is always
Positive.
 
Away with idle phrases!
Only logic and reason,
Only logic and reason
Will unravel all mysteries at once.
 
And emotions are infectious
And not subject to mind.
Reason triumphs over heart,
I'm telling you this once and for all.
 
Yes, my thinking is progressive,
Broad and positive,
Only facts and motives
Are undeniable for me.
 
Existing in the positive,
I will make my name famous.
Positive nature
Is made
For progress and culture.
 
[Magda, Rebecca, Chagal, Alfred:]
How progressive,
Broad and positive his thinking is!
Only facts and motives
Are undeniable for him.
 
Existing in the positive,
He will make his name famous.
Positive nature
Is made
For progress and culture.
 
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture!
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
My nature, my nature
Is made
For progress and culture.
 
My nature, my nature
Is made
For progress and culture.
 
My nature, my nature
Is made
For progress and culture.
 
Is made for culture,
Is made for culture,
Is made for culture,
Is made for culture!
 
A goose being plucked
Means there will be a roast.
Where there is clatter and noise,
There is neither sleep nor rest.
Green grass
Won't get through ice.
The hunchback presages
The appearance of a count.
 
I bet prize,
As Nobel was for facts,
A child could have guessed
The hunchback is the count's servant.
 
Someone, somewhere, with someone, sometime...
 
Yes, my thinking is progressive,
Broad and positive,
Only facts and motives
Are undeniable for me.
 
Existing in the positive,
I will make my name famous.
Positive nature
Is made
For progress and culture.
 
My nature, my nature
Is made
For progress and culture.
 
My nature, my nature
Is made
For progress and culture.
 
[Magda, Rebecca, Chagal, Alfred:]
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture,
Is made for culture, is made for culture!
 
[All:]
Is given by destiny!
 

• 1. A reference to a well-know Latin phrase «Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas», translating to Russian as «Plato is my friend, but I value truth more».

Eternal life

[Vampires:]
Eternal life is fatigue and boredom only,
And it has no beginning, and it has no end.
There is nothing in it, neither rapture nor torment.
Everything will repeat itself,
For eternity
Lasts with no end
 
And the skies are dark.
Immortality has neither heart nor face.
 
We were born for world domination,
We were born to help the world.
So let vampires take possession of the earth!
Soon, undoubtedly,
Night will fall
Over the universe.
 
Fear, terrible fear is the curse of all the living.
The poison permeates mind of humans.
And gloom, terrible gloom opens out its arms.
We'll destroy
Souls, your souls,
Only eternity is your fate!
 
Fate!
Fate!
Fate!
Fate!
 

Books

[Professor Abronsius:]
Books, books!
God, what books!
 
[Alfred:]
— But, professor, we have to find Sarah!
 
[Profesor Abronsius:]
Aristotle, Parmenides,
And Diogenes, and Maimonides,
Euclid's geometry,
The Iliad with the Aeneid.
Great!
I adore antiquity!
 
[Alfred:]
— She is somewhere near...
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
Marcus Aurelius and Cato,
Also Tacitus and Cicero,
A rare volume of Homer behind it,
Tibull, and Caesar, and Plato.
Romans, Greeks
Will be immortal for evermore!
 
[Alfred:]
— He keeps her locked up!
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
We learn pure thinking
From Kant,
While drawing moral values
From Hegel.
German philosophers
Are unsurpassed spirits.
Brilliant deposits
Are gathered in succession
On these shelves!
 
[Alfred:]
— We have little time!
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
Spinoza and Copernicus,
The humanists' Creed,
Paracelsus and Crusius
The idols of occultists,
Realists, moralists,
Classicists, causalists.
Rare editions
Keep all the riddles
Of the universe!
 
[Alfred:]
— It will get dark soon!
 
[Professor Abronsius:]
Here is Shakespeare and Macchiavelli,
Ekkehard and Kierkegard,
Also Molière and Mary Shelley,
La Fontaine, Marlowe, Tagore.
Here is Leonardo, Botticelli,
Edgar Poe, Marquis de Sade,
And Nostradamus with Avicenna,
And a whole range of other
Priceless volumes!
 

O Sarah

[Alfred:]
There is no turning back for me.
I know that I can find you,
O Sarah!
 
Shadows of evil are gliding over here,
The gaze of dark night is gloomy,
But love is so sweet!
 
I am one step away from you.
I know this is my last chance,
O Sarah!
 
I am not a hero at all,
But love will save me
In any trouble.
 
Bad dream, weird ravings...
But darkness will give place to dawn,
O Sarah!
 
I will take a step to nowhere
Throughout space, cities, and years
Without hesitation.
 
I believe that only the one,
In whom the fire of love burns, will win,
O Sarah!
 
I will come for you,
I will accept an unequal battle
With malevolent fate.
 
The world of shadows will pass away.
I know that this night isn't everlasting,
O Sarah!
 
There will be a day, a new day,
You alone will shine for me like a star
Forever.
 
At this hour, I swear
That nobody will be able to do us part,
O Sarah!
 
I am coming for my loved one
By guess right to hell,
And nothing can stop me,
Sarah!
 

Prologue

[Alfred:]
Professor?
Professor!
 
Hey, ho, hey!
Respond me, professor!
Hey, ho, hey!
I have lost my way.
 
For sure, he sat down somewhere again to wtite down his observations into a notebook. If professor Abronsius takes his notes, the entire world has died for him!
If only... if only he has not died!
 
Hey, ho, hey!
Give me a sign, professor.
Hey, ho, hey!
How can I find you?
 
Professor!
I must find him, otherwise he'll freeze down. There's no sorrier end for a man like him.
It will be written in newspapers: «Death of a scientist in Transylvania». But no one will remember me. No one will grieve for poor Alfred.
 
Hey, ho, hey!
Don't be silent, professor!
Your invaluable
Precious
Assistant
Has gone astray!
 
Professor!
 

Invitation to the Ball

Count von Krolock:
Good evening! Don't be afraid of me.
Your guardian angel, on your call, child,
Has appeared. I will be glad to invite you to the ball.
This ball lasts until morning every year,
It shall make all your dreams come true, a hundredfold.
 
If you don't want to leave your odious home,
Won't you regret it later?
Your destination is somewhere else.
 
You will pray for a century, suppressing your flesh with a fast,
But you yourself know that —
Your destination is somewhere else.
 
You've been instilled since childhood: 'Don't sin,
Or you won't go to Heaven.'
But you really knew in the depth of your soul,
That the soul's salvation is a sweet lie, yes.
 
If you trust me without hesitation,
I will make all your dreams come true.
This night will carry us away on its wings,
We will set off on flight.
As soon as the clock strikes,
The midnight ball will betroth us forever.
 
For a long time I waited for you,
For three centuries I searched for you,
I have been given to you by destiny,
So take this priceless gift,
A reprieve from despondency,
An invitation to the ball,
To the ball!
 

God is forgotten

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COUNT VON KROLOCK:
My shadow came in your sleep,
And you secretly dreamt of me beneath
The moon. Hurry to meet your fate, my angel.
With the dark passion of a desolate soul
I’m calling for you in the silence of midnight.
 
ENSEMBLE:
The time has come!
The time has come!
 
COUNT VON KROLOCK:
God is forgotten, so is His name...
 
ENSEMBLE:
The time has come!
 
COUNT VON KROLOCK:
... And there’s nothing sacred left on the earth
More. The limit of our wanderings is unapproachable.
Having no peace, we flee from light.
Eternal life is our curse.
 
ENSEMBLE:
The time has come!
 
COUNT VON KROLOCK:
Know that you have to die
To comprehend infinity,
For only death can
Be the guarantee of eternal life.
 
So say goodbye to the vanity of the world,
And you would get immortality
Instead, just trust me, fly with me
In the darkness of the universe.
 
SARAH:
Someone’s voice entails me.
 
COUNT VON KROLOCK:
Don’t be afraid.
 
ENSEMBLE:
The time has come!
 
COUNT VON KROLOCK:
Hurry to meet me, my angel.
With the dark passion of a desolate soul
I’m calling for you in the silence of midnight.
 
ENSEMBLE:
God is forgotten, so is His name,
And there’s nothing sacred left on the earth
More. The limit of our wanderings is unapproachable.
Having no peace, we flee from light.
Eternal life is our curse.