Elena Vasiliyevna Obraztsova (Russian: Елена Васильевна Образцова) (b. in Leningrad, now St Petersburg Russia, on 7 July 1939) is a Russian mezzo-soprano, widely recognised as one of the greatest opera singers of all time, thanks to her outstanding stage presence and the vocal abilities. She has played many roles throughout her career, including performances under the baton of such leading conductors as Claudio Abbado and Herbert von Karajan. In December 1977 she opened the 200th opera season in La Scala singing Don Carlos's Eboli with Abbado as conductor. In June 2007 Obraztsova was appointed artistic director of opera at the Mikhaylovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. She also trains young soloists in her own cultural center in St. Petersburg. Obraztsova still appears regularly on stage at the Mikhailovsky in the role of the Countess in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades. In 2008 Obraztsova ended her artistic director contract with the Mikhailovsky to concentrate on the competition of her name and the recently announced project of International Academy of Music in St Petersburg. Obraztsova continues her collaboration with the Mikhailovsky in a capacity of the General Director's Artistic Advisor... en.wikipedia.or...
Lyrics & English Translation
She was led to her destiny in chains!
With the child in my arm, I followed her weeping.
I tried, in vain, to reach her...
In vain the wretch tried to stop and bless me!
For, among terrible curses, prodding her with their weapons
they pushed her towards the stake, those cruel men!
Then, with broken accents she exclaimed: "Revenge!"
That word eternally reverberates in this heart.
I managed to kidnap the Count's child:
I dragged him hither...
the flames were ready.
He was crying his heart out,
my heart was torn, in shreds!...
Then all of a sudden, to the sick soul, like in a dream,
a vision of frightening phantoms rose!
The guards and the torture! My mother, deathly pale...
barefoot, half naked!...the cry, the well-known cry echoes....
"Revenge!"...I stretch my trembling hand...I hold
the victim... I reached for it, push it into the fire...
the delirium is over...the dreadful scene vanishes...
only the flame burning, and its victim is no more!
I then turn my eyes and I see just in front of me
the son of the wicked Count...
My son,
my own son I had killed!
I still feel
my hair raising at the thought of it!
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