Supertitles and Images of Russian Art for Concert of Rachmaninoff Songs and Arias. Bel Cantanti Opera.

3. Bel Cantanti Opera
2004 – 2013
Photographs by Alexander Souvorov

4. Rigoletto (2004)

5. Rigoletto (2004)

6. Carmen (2005)

7. Carmen (2005)

8. La Fille du Régiment (2005)

9. La Fille du Régiment (2005)

10. La Fille du Régiment (2005)

11. Iolanta (2005)

12. Iolanta (2005)

13. Iolanta (2005)

14. L’ elisir d’amore (2006)

15. L’ elisir d’amore (2006)

16. L’ elisir d’amore (2006)

17. L’ elisir d’amore (2006)

18. L’ elisir d’amore (2006)

19. Hansel and Gretel (2006)

20. Hansel and Gretel (2006)

21. Lucia di Lammermoor (2006)

22. Lucia di Lammermoor (2006)

23. Lucia di Lammermoor (2006)

24. Lucia di Lammermoor (2006)

25. Le Nozze di Figaro (2006)

26. Nozze di Figaro (2006)

27. Le Nozze di Figaro (2006)

28. Abduction from the Seraglio (2006)

29. Abduction from the Seraglio (2006)

30. Abduction from the Seraglio (2006)

31. Abduction from the Seraglio (2006)

32. Abduction from the Seraglio (2006)

33. La Boheme (2007)

34. La Boheme (2007)

35. La Boheme (2007)

36. La Boheme (2007)

37. La Boheme (2007)

38. I I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2008)

39. I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2008)

40. I I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2008)

41. Don Pasquale (2008)

42. Don Pasquale (2008)

43. Don Pasquale (2008)

44. Don Pasquale (2008)

45. Carmen (2009)

46. Carmen (2009)

47. Carmen (2009)

48. Giulio Cesare (2009)

49. Giulio Cesare (2009)

50. Giulio Cesare (2009)

51. Romeo and Juliet (2010)

52. Romeo and Juliet (2010)

53. Romeo and Juliet (2010)

54. Romeo and Juliet (2010)

55. Amahl and the Night Visitors (2010)

56. Amahl and the Night Visitors (2010)

57. Amahl and the Night Visitors (2010)

58. L’Italiana in Algeri (2010)

59. L’Italiana in Algeri (2010)

60. L’Italiana in Algeri (2010)

61. L’Italiana in Algeri (2010)

62. L’Italiana in Algeri (2010)

63. I Pagliacci (2010)

64. I Pagliacci (2010)

65. I Pagliacci (2010)

66. I Pagliacci (2010)

67. Gianni Schicchi (2010)

68. Gianni Schicchi (2010)

69. The Impresario (2011)

70. The Impresario (2011)

71. The Impresario (2011)

72. Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le... (2011)

73. Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le... (2011)

74. Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le... (2011)

75. La Cenerentola (2011)

76. La Cenerentola (2011)

77. La Cenerentola (2011)

78. La Cenerentola (2011)

79. La Cenerentola (2011)

80. Eugene Onegin (2011)

81. Eugene Onegin (2011)

82. Eugene Onegin (2011)

83. Barber of Seville (2012)

84. Barber of Seville (2012)

85. Barber of Seville (2012)

86. Barber of Seville (2012)

87. Barber of Seville (2012)

88. Cosi fan Tutte (2012)

89. Cosi fan Tutte (2012)

90. Cosi fan Tutte (2012)

91. Madama Butterfly (2012)

92. Madama Butterfly (2012)

93. Orphee aux Enfers (2013)

94. Orphee aux Enfers (2013)

95. Orphee aux Enfers (2013)

96. Orphee aux Enfers (2013)

97. Orphee aux Enfers (2013)

99. Bel Cantanti Opera
presents

101. Johann Strauss
Die Fledermaus (The Bat)
Saturday, December 7, 7:30pm
Sunday, December 8, 3:00pm
Saturday, December 14, 7:30pm
Sunday, December 15, 3:00pm
Randolph Road Theater,
4010 Randolph Rd, Silver Spring, MD
Get your tickets at
www.belcantanti.com

103. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Iolanta
Friday, January 17,7:30pm
Sunday, January 19, 3:00pm
Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd, Rockville, MD
Get your tickets at
www.belcantanti.com

105. Rachmaninoff… Rachmaninoff… Rachmaninoff…
A concert of Song and Opera

107. Cristina Nassif (soprano)
Chantelle Grant (mezzo soprano)
Ashley Alden (soprano)
Gustavo Ahualli (baritone)
Jeffrey Springer (tenor)
Michael Celentano (baritone)
Katerina Souvorova (piano)

115. О нет, молю не уходи!
Oh no, I beg you, do not leave!
Text by D. Merezhkovsky
Michael Celentano

116. O, no, I beg you, do not leave!

117. All of my pain is nothing compared to separation.
I am too happy in this torment.
Press me tightly to your bosom and say that you love me.

118. I have come back to you, sick, pale and exhausted.
See how weak and pathetic I am,
how much I need your love.

119. The new torments ahead I await,
like a caress or a kiss,
and beg you of one thing:

120. Stay with me! Do not leave!

121. Images by V. Vasnetsov,
Images by: V. Borovikovsky, F. Lembersky, V. Vasnetsov

122. Утро
Morning
Text by M. L. Yanov
Chantelle Grant

123. "I love you!“, dawn whispered to day and,
while enfolding the skies, blushed from that confession.

124. And a sunbeam, illuminating nature,
with a smile sent her a burning kiss.

126. And the day, as if still doubting the fulfillment
of his most cherished dreams…

127. … descended over the land and, with a smile,
dried her tears, like rows of glittering diamonds.

128. Images by: A. Kuindzhi, I. Levitan

129. В молчаньи ночи тайной
In the silence of the mysterious night
Text by A. Fet
Michael Celentano

131. For a long time, in the silence of the mysterious night,
I will sit, remembering your sly words, your smile,
your fleeting glance…

132. The locks of your dark hair,
pliant under your fingertips.

133. I will be casting these images
out of my thoughts and
calling them back.

134. Repeating and
correcting the
words I said to you,
so awkward…

135. And, drunk with
love, against all
reason…

136. Shouting your
name into the night!

137. Oh, for a long time, in the silence of the mysterious night,
shall I awake the darkness with the sound of your name!

139. Images by
M. Chagall
A. Kuindzhi
I. Kramskoy
L. Lagorio

140. Не пой, красавица, при мне
O, do not sing for me again
Text by A. Pushkin
Cristina Nassif

142. Do not sing to me, oh beauty,
the songs of melancholy Georgia.

143. They remind me of another life
and a distant shore.

144. Alas! Your cruel melodies
remind me of the steppe, and the night,
and in the moonlight…

145. The features of the distant,
misfortunate maiden.

146. When I see you, I forget that sweet and fateful apparition.
But you sing, and in my mind, I see her image again.

147. Do not sing to me, oh beauty,
the songs of melancholy Georgia.

148. They remind me of another life
and a distant shore.

150. Images by
A. Kuindzhi
K. Makovsky
A. Savrasov
V. Surikov
A. Vasnetsov

153. Полюбила я на печаль свою
The Soldier's Wife
Text by A. Plescheyev
Chantelle Grant

154. Why did I have to fall in love with a talentless orphan?
That was my fate.

155. Powerful people have separated us.
They took him away to be a recruit…

156. And a soldier's wife, a lonely woman…

157. I shall grow old in a stranger's home.

158. This is my fate.

161. Images by
M. Nesterov

166. Я жду тебя (I wait for you!)
Text by Maria Davidova
Cristina Nassif

167. I wait for you! The sun has set,
and the night's dark covers
are ready to descend upon earth and hide us.

168. I wait for you! With a fragrant mist,
night has suffused the sleeping world,
and the past day has bid farewell to earth.

169. I wait! Tormented and in love, counting each moment,
full of anguish and impatience…

170. I wait for you!

172. Images by
A. Kuindzhi
K. Makovsky
K. Somov

173. Не верь мне, друг
Do not believe me, my friend
Text by Count A. Tolstoy
Michael Celentano

174. Do not believe me, friend, when in a surge of sorrow
I say that I don't love you any more!

175. When the tide is low, the sea has not abandoned the land.
It will come back, filled with love.

176. I am already pining, full of the same passion.
I'll give my freedom back to you again.

177. And the waves are already running back with a roar
To the beloved shoreline from afar.

179. ending image, after words

180. Images by N. Aivazovsky, I.Repin, A. Rylov

181. O не грусти!
Oh, do not grieve!
Text by Aleksei Apukhtin
Chantelle Grant

183. Oh, do not grieve for me!
I am where there is no suffering.
Forget your worries and your tormented dreams.

184. Let your memories of me
Be brighter than the first day of spring.

185. Oh, do not pine!
There is no separation.
I am still close to you
in spirit, like before.

186. I'm still touched by your torments,
I'm still oppressed by your sadness.

187. Live! You must live!
And if you find relief and peace…

188. Then know that it was me who answered
from the other side

189. …to the call of your afflicted soul.

191. Images by
P. Fedotov
I. Kramskoj
K. Makovsky
N. Roerich

192. Она как полдень хороша
She is as beautiful as noon
Text by N. Minsky
Gustavo Ahualli

193. She is as beautiful as noon.
She holds more mystery than midnight.

194. Her eyes have never filled with tears,
her soul has never suffered.

196. And I, whose life is
one of struggle
and sorrow,
am destined to
pine for her…

198. As ever the roaring sea
Is in love with the silent shore.

199. Images by
N. Aivazovsky
V. Borovikovsky
A. Edelfelt
I. Repin

200. Пора!
It is time!
Text by S. Nadson
Gustavo Ahualli

201. Now is the time, come forth, oh prophet!
In the strength of anguish,
the strength of love,
I call upon you!

202. Look how feeble and weary we are,
forlorn in our torturous struggle.

203. It is now or never.

204. The mind dies, shame fades,
and conscience sleeps.

205. There is no gleam of light.
Only oblivion raises its voice.

206. Images by
A. Ivanov
I. Kramskoj
V. Surikov
I. Tvorozhnikov

211. Aleko. Cradle Scene.
Zemphira: Cristina Nassif
Aleko: Gustavo Ahualli

213. ZEMPHIRA
“Husband old, husband fierce,
Stab me, burn me if you wish.
I am brave and do not fear
Flames that scorch,
or knives that pierce.”

215. “Yes, I loathe thee and I scorn thee.
For another man I sigh,
And for love of him I’ll die”

218. ALEKO
My soul’s oppressed with secret sorrow.
Where are the joys of lawless love?

220. ZEMPHIRA
“Slay me, throw me in the flame!
My tongue is tied, I’ll speak no word.
Husband old, husband fierce,
You cannot guess my lover’s name.”

221. ALEKO
Silence! I am tired of your singing. I do not like such wild songs.

222. ZEMPHIRA
You like it not? Well, what care I?
‘Tis for myself I sing.

223. My lover is as fresh as spring,
Warm as a summer day.
He is so young, he is so brave,
And ah… he loves me so!

224. ALEKO
Silence, Zemphira.
I can bear no more!

225. ZEMPHIRA
So you understand my song?

226. ZEMPHIRA
You are entitled to feel angry.
I am singing about you!

227. Oh how I caressed him in the dark of night!
And how we laughed at your grey hair!

228. My lover is as fresh as spring,
warm as a summer day.
He is so young, he is so brave,
and ah…he loves me so!

230. Oh how I caressed him in the dark of night!
And how we laughed at your grey hair!

233. Images by
A. Atroshenko
N. Bessonov
H. Merle
S. Rosa
Photographs by
A. Souvorov

234. Aleko. Aleko’s Cavatina
Gustavo Ahualli

236. The entire camp is asleep.
The moon above shines with its midnight beauty.

237. Why does my poor heart quiver?
With what sadness am I tormented?

238. Without care, without regret
I spend my days in nomadic roaming.

239. Having cast off the shackles of civilization,
I am free as they are.

240. I have lived without acknowledging
the authority of cruel blind fate.

241. But, oh God,
how the passions play
with my helpless soul!

243. Zemfira! How she loved me!

245. How tenderly she pressed against me in silence,
all through the night!

246. How often with her lovely chattering and her entrancing kisses
she was able to quickly dispel my heavy thoughts.

247. I remember: full of passion, she whispered to me then:
“I love you! I am in your power! Yours, Aleko, forever!”

248. And I would forget everything as I listened to her words.
Like a madman, I kissed…

249. …her enchanting eyes, the strands of her hair, darker than night,
Zemfira’s lips…

251. Whilst she, in ecstasy, full of passion,
clung to me and gazed into my eyes...
But what happened?

253. Zemfira is unfaithful!

254. My Zemfira has grown cold!

255. INTERMISSION

256. Images by M. Chagall, A. Korin, A. Svedomsky, M. Vrubel
Photographs by A. Souvorov

257. INTERMISSION

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273. Bel Cantanti Opera
presents

275. Johann Strauss
Die Fledermaus (The Bat)
Saturday, December 7, 7:30pm
Sunday, December 8, 3:00pm
Saturday, December 14, 7:30pm
Sunday, December 15, 3:00pm
Randolph Road Theater,
4010 Randolph Rd, Silver Spring, MD
Get your tickets at
www.belcantanti.com

277. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Iolanta
Friday, January 17, 7:30pm
Sunday, January 19, 3:00pm
Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd, Rockville, MD
Get your tickets at
www.belcantanti.com

290. Они отвечали.
They answered.
Text by Lev Mey after Victor Hugo
Ashley Alden

291. They asked: "How can we glide in flying barks,
like white seagulls over the waves,
so that the guards won't reach us?"

292. "Keep on rowing!“, they answered.

293. They asked: "How can one forget forever that this merciless world
is full of poverty and troubles,
full of menaces and sorrows?"

294. "Fall asleep!" , they answered.

295. They asked: "How can we
attract beautiful women
without love-potions, so that
they fall into our arms having
heard our words of passion?"

296. "Be in love!" , they answered.

297. Images by
N. Roerich

298. Сирень
Lilacs
Text by A. Beketova
Ashley Alden

299. In the morning, at daybreak, over the dewy grass,
I will go to breathe the crisp dawn.

300. …and in the fragrant shade, where the lilac crowds,
I will go to seek my happiness...

302. In life, there is only one happiness for me to discover,
and that happiness lives in the lilacs.

303. In the green boughs, in the fragrant bunches,
my little happiness blossoms...

304. Images by
I. Grabar
K. Kostandi
I. Levitan
V.Serov
V. Tabanin
M. Vrubel

305. Отрывок из Мюссе
An excerpt from Musset
Text by A. Apukhtin
(after A. de Musset)
Gustavo Ahualli

306. Why is my sick heart beating so frantically
And pleading and yearning for peace?
What so excites and scares me in the night?

307. The door slammed shut, moaning and weeping,
Rays of a flickering lamp dimly flashed...
My God! My breath is caught in my chest!

308. Someone is calling me, whispering sadly...
Someone has come in...?

309. My room is empty, no one is here.
It's only the clock striking midnight...

310. O, loneliness, O despair!

311. Images by I. Glazunov, W. Kurelek, F. Lembersky

312. Здесь хорошо
How fair this place
Text by G. Galina
Ashley Alden

313. How fair this place...
Look, in the distance, the river sparkles like fire.

314. The meadows stretch out like a colored carpet,
the clouds are white.

316. There are no people here…
There is just silence...
Only God and I…

317. Flowers, and an old pine tree…

318. And you, my dream!

320. Images by
I. Levitan
S. Zhukovsky

326. Христос воскрес!
Christ is Risen!
Text by D. Merezhkovsky
Michael Celentano

328. "Christ is risen“ they sing in church.
Yet I am sad… my soul is silent.

329. The world is steeped in blood and tears,
so this hymn before the altars sounds like an insult.

331. Were He present among us to see what our glorious age
has achieved, how brother hates brother,
and how shameful is mankind…

332. And if, within the shining church, this "Christ is risen"
He were to hear, what bitter tears before the crowd would He sob!

334. Images by I. Repin, V. Perov

335. У моего окна
Before my window
Text by G. Galina
Sarah Hayashi

336. Before my window blooms a bird-cherry tree.
It blooms thoughtfully under its silver veil.

337. And with its branch fresh and fragrant it leans in and calls me...

338. I happily catch the cheerful breath of its quivering petals.

339. Their sweet fragrance is intoxicating.

340. And they are singing wordless songs of love.

342. Images by V. Borisov-Musatov, I. Levitan, V. Soldatkin

343. Вчера мы встретились
Yesterday we met
Text by Y. Polonsky
Michael Celentano

344. Yesterday we met.
She halted… as did I...
We looked into
each other’s eyes.

345. Oh God, how she had changed.
The fire in her eyes was extinguished,
and her cheeks had grown pale.

346. And for a long time, I looked at her, silently, severely.

347. The poor little soul offered her hand and smiled…

348. I wanted to speak; but she, for the sake of God,
ordered me to be silent.

349. …and immediately turned away,
knitted her brows, and
pulled away her hand…

350. … and spoke: “Good bye.”

352. And I wanted to say:
”Farewell forever, ruined, but sweet creature.”

354. Images by
V. Borisov-Musatov
I. Kramskoy
K. Somov
V. Surikov

359. Музыка
Music
Text by Y. Polonsky
Chantelle Grant

360. They are swimming and growing, these wonderful sounds.
I'm swept up in a wave of sound...

361. It has come up and lifted me,
and it is full of unknown pain and bliss...

363. And for a moment, a divine image flashed with
an illusory beauty and floated up, like a living vision…

364. Over this airy, crystal-clear wave…

365. And was reflected, and was swayed,
And either smiled... or shed a tear...

367. Images by
N. Roerich

368. Вокализ
Vocalize
Ashley Alden

381. Images by A. Kuindzhi, I. Levitan, A. Makovsky, V. Polenov,
I. Ostrouhov, V. Serov, I. Shishkin, S. Zhukovsky

389. Francesca da Rimini
Duet of Francesca and Paolo
Francesca: Cristina Nassif
Paolo: Jeffery Springer

390. PAOLO (reading)
The fair Guinevere having dismissed her handmaidens and pages,
was sitting alone.

391. Then Galahad, resplendent in his weaponry, appeared,
and bending his knee, spoke thus:

392. Permit a servant of your heavenly beauty, Queen, to bring to you
a hero. He has performed in your name a number of great feats.

393. He is the son of King Guinevis, his name is Lancelot of the Lake.
He longs to fall at your feet...

395. What do you think, Francesca, should
Guinevere allow Lancelot to appear
before her?

396. FRANCESCA
Oh, yes! I shouldn’t love her
were she not to pity him.

397. PAOLO
Yet you yourself are cruel...

398. FRANCESCA
Be silent, faithless one. Have you forgotten
that you swore to me that you would not recall
those things which I dare not, must not listen to?

399. PAOLO
Oh, Francesca!

401. As the early portent of morning colored the east
with the tints of tender radiant roses…

402. So the cheeks of the pale queen began to glow at the name
of the “Stranger from the Lake”

403. With the barest nod of her head Guinevere
allowed the hero to come in, and Galahad
brought in him who had once
been his enemy.

404. …but now timorous and anxious, he did not dare to raise
his eyes to the queen...

406. Oh, how sweet, how awe-inspiring it was
for them! How fortunate they were!

407. FRANCESCA
Fortunate... Oh, yes!

409. And now the wondrous voice of the lady rang forth:
“Fearless knight, what do you want?’”
…But the poor woman couldn’t continue.

410. “The Son of the Lake” glanced straight into her eyes.
And she saw that there was no need to make any further inquiries.
What he wanted was the same as she:

411. …to gaze and be struck dumb in rapturous silence...”

413. FRANCESCA
Oh, do not look at me like that... Read!

414. PAOLO
Am I to read how he who is so fortunate clung to the lips
of his beloved, how, forgetting everything…

415. …they abandoned themselves to passion and were frozen
in the bliss of an eternal embrace? Oh, Francesca!

416. FRANCESCA
Oh, do not sob, my Paolo, do not...

417. FRANCESCA
Let it be that we are not fated to know kisses,
let it be that here we must be apart...

418. The time of our earthly wanderings is short,
our earthly dreams will flash by in an instant!

419. Do not weep, for the reward for all our earthly suffering
awaits us both…

420. … in that place where there are no shadows or deprivation,
a place that is an imperishable temple of love.

422. There, on high, beyond the boundaries of this world,
soaring in your embraces in the azure of the radiant ether,
I shall be forever yours!

423. PAOLO
What to me is paradise with its impassionate beauty
when a tempest is raging in my blood?

424. PAOLO
I am seized by the indomitable will of earthly love.

425. Oh, the ardent bliss of a kiss!
I would forfeit the blessed sight of incorporeal spirits,
paradise and the beauty of heaven just for one instant...

426. …one instant of the fiery touch of burning lips on lips.
My whole life, my whole world in a single moment,
all eternity is there!

427. FRANCESCA
Alas, I am given to another!

428. PAOLO
No! No! Before heaven you are mine!
God bound us together!

429. Did you not swear before the host of the powers most high
that you will bind your life to mine?

430. FRANCESCA
Go away... Go away... leave me... you must not...

431. PAOLO Before heaven you are mine.
FRANCESCA The torments of hell await us!
PAOLO I shall be there with you!

432. FRANCESCA Oh, Paolo!
PAOLO Oh, Francesca!

435. FRANCESCA With you hell is better than paradise!
PAOLO Where you are there is happiness without end!

436. FRANCESCA Swooning in your embraces,
what to me is the divine halo?

437. PAOLO You are mine in happiness and in suffering...
Everywhere and always I shall be will you!

438. FRANCESCA Take me... I am yours, yours...
PAOLO Swoon, swoon in my kisses!

439. FRANCESCA, PAOLO: Just for one instant!
One instant of the fiery touch of burning lips on lips...

440. My whole life, my whole world in a single moment,
all eternity is there...

442. Oh, blessed instant, the longed-for instant!

445. PAOLO: My dearest! I shall forfeit
everything, everything!
In you is eternal bliss!

446. FRANCESCA : I am yours forever!
In you is eternal bliss!

448. Images by
P. Bordone
S. Botticelli
A. Cabanel
W. Dyce
H. J. Ford
F. Harrison
A. Scheffer
F. R. Pickersgill
Raphael
D. G. Rosetti

453. Running and awakening the sleepy shore,
Running and glittering and announcing loudly…
They are announcing loudly to every corner:

454. Spring is coming, Spring is coming!
We are the messengers of young Spring!

455. Spring is coming, Spring is coming!