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From design to costume: Jonathan Roxmouth as the Phantom
So far heβs played the Phantom in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Manila, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. The photos are a mix from this. The original design is by Maria BjΓΈrnson.
Another one of my favourite musical theatre songs ever, this one also from Master and Margarita! I really, really love this particular performance from Ivan, it feels much more emotionally intense and raw than was standard fare from him in the 2015-era of this musical. A+ acting, A+ singing, we get the 20-second note, what more can I say.
As usual translation notes are below the cut, and Russian speakers who are more fluent than me, please feel free to evaluate.
@musical-ingenue-wannabe I'm so sorry this took me a hot minute to find, apparently I used a different software to make the subtitles for this one so it was on a different external drive. The only other one I have is the intro to Π‘ΡΡΠ°Ρ ΠΈ ΠΡΠ±ΠΎΠ²Ρ from the 2022 production, I'll upload that later. Enjoy!
The bit I've translated as "and now, the door of fate has closed. And, the way back is cut off" is clear that he is talking about the present (now), past (the way back), and future (the door of fate) paths. I couldn't find a nice way to convey that in the subtitles without it sounding like a grammar lesson, so I'm writing it here instead :)
Β«ΠΠ½Π΅ ΠΏΠΎΠ΄Π²Π»Π°ΡΡΠ½Ρ Π·ΡΠ±Ρ ΠΈ ΡΠ²Π΅ΡΠ΄ΡΒ» - I ran into the same issue with this line as I did with Β«ΡΠΏΠ°ΡΠ΅Π½ΡΠ΅ β ΡΡΠ°ΡΡΡ ΠΠΎΠ³Π°!Β» in ΠΠ»ΠΎΠ±ΡΡ - throughout this musical they choose really interesting words/syntax to describe something being within someone's power. Woland especially, and I'm not certain if there is a reason for this. I'm not fluent enough to know if they've deliberately chosen words with religious connotations, for instance. (It doesn't help that there really isn't an English equivalent for the exact grammatical phrasing of Β«ΠΌΠ½Π΅ ΠΏΠΎΠ΄Π²Π»Π°ΡΡΠ½ΡΒ» - I know exactly what it means in Russian but finding words to convey that meaning in English is very difficult. I did my best!)
Β«β¦Π³Π»ΠΈΠ½ΡΠ½ΡΠΉ ΠΊΡΠ²ΡΠΈΠ½ - ΡΠ΅Π»ΠΎ ΡΠ΅Π»ΠΎΠ²Π΅ΠΊΠ°Β». In case it wasn't obvious the meaning of this line is that, the body as a vessel for the soul is what he's talking about being able to empty/destroy. But the word used is literally actually "clay jug" which is why I translated itβ¦ the way I did. (Too many metaphors in this song. My head hurts.)
Β«Π― Π·Π° Ρ ΡΡΠΏΠΊΠΈΠ΅ ΡΠ΅ΡΠ΄ΡΠ°, Π·Π° Π³ΡΠ΅Ρ ΠΈ Π³Π»ΡΠΏΡΠ° Π² ΠΎΡΠ²Π΅ΡΠ΅. ΠΠΎ ΠΏΠΎΠ΅Ρ Ρ ΡΡΠ΅Ρ Π΄ΠΎΡΠΎΠ³, ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ Ρ ΠΎΠ΄ΠΈΠ½ΠΎΠΊ, Ρ ΠΎΡ ΡΡΡΡΡΠ΅Π»Π΅ΡΠΈΠΉΒ». Hey native speakers! What on earth does this mean?!? I translated it literally as best I could, but if this is another metaphor or a reference to something, it has gone completely over my head. Sins of a fool, fragile hearts? Three ways? Please help, very confused.
Fun fact I wanted to make that line my blog title but it didn't fit :(
Anyway, here's another fragment from my unfinished musical theatre subtitles folder - sharing because this is one of my absolute favourite songs from any musical ever, I'm in love with the lyrics and the orchestration and everything is just... aaaaa
I tried to convey the general meaning of the lyrics as best as possible with the subtitles but I have a couple of footnotes on the translation below the cut. My Russian language skills are not very good so any native speakers who see this, please feel free to eviscerate me. Or offer constructive criticism, that works too.
@musical-ingenue-wannabe this is a bit of the subtitle project I mentioned!
The line Β«ΡΠ°Π·Π²Π΅ Π±ΡΠ΄Π΅Ρ ΡΠ°ΠΊ, ΡΡΠΎ ΠΊ Π±Π΅Π·Π΄Π½Π΅ Π²ΠΎ ΠΌΡΠ°ΠΊ, Π±Π»Π°Π³Π°Ρ ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ Π½Π°ΠΌ Π²ΡΡΡΠ΅Π»Π΅Ρ Π΄ΠΎΡΠΎΠ³Ρ?Β» is more accurately something like "can it be that in seeking the light, we unwittingly pave our way into the dark abyss?" which also makes Woland's next line about "a different path" make more sense. But that was too clunky to write out in full and the word order difference means that there was no nice way to have the translation line up with what's actually being said, hence my slightly-inaccurate translation.
Β«ΠΡΡΡ Π²Π°ΠΆΠ½Π΅ΠΉ Π΄Π΅Π»Π° ΠΌΠΈΡΠ° ΠΈ ΡΡΡΠ°Π΄Π°Π½ΠΈΠΉΒ» well I know what he said but honestly the meaning of this one is a bit foggy for me. I'm not really sure whether it should be "more important than peace and suffering" or just "more important peace and suffering", I don't know, if I were translating this today I would probably write that out differently.
Β«ΠΠ°ΠΊ Π² Π³ΡΠ΅Ρ Π°Ρ , Π²Π΅ΡΡ ΠΌΠΈΡ Π² ΠΊΡΠΎΠ²ΠΈΒ» got condensed a little bit in the translation, "the world wallows in blood as it does in sin" is probably better but the Russian syntax is just so much more poetic and efficient than it ever could be in English.
i am on my knees, begging for someone to make subtitles for the Master and Margarita musical. I donβt care about English translation, I just want to know what the heck theyβre saying period. i canβt memorize the dialogue and obsessively reenact scenes from it (and consequently get better at Russian) if all i have to go off of is spoken words from a language i canβt speak.
Hey, I know that I'm over a year late to this post (I put something in the m&m tag and then saw it lol) but if you're still interested? I thought about doing an English subtitle of it years ago back when my Russian was still decent, and then kinda abandoned the project. Everything I did do was from songs so I'm not much help with the spoken dialogue, sorry!
But in case it's useful, if you just want to read the written lyrics, all the songs (no dialogue unfortunately) were posted in a vk discussion thread at some point, it may still be there but if not I downloaded it and would be happy to share if you can't find it online (it's an rtf so it looks like an absolute mess, but everything is there). Let me know if you'd like it!
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