This is superb! We never had expected
Such splendid company and dancing to a band!
We seldom see, we seldom see parties such
As this one.
What glorious food! What glorious wine!
So tasteful, so well-planned!
Yes it's splendid, yes it's splendid;
Simply delightful!
What a party, what a party!
We have never been more surprised!
Not for years have we seen such a party;
Ev'ryone should enjoy it while they can!
Here in the country we live in seclusion;
Festive occasions and dancing are rare.
Hunting is really our only diversion; makes
A nice change from the handsome and the hare!
ELDERLY LADIES
That's all our menfolk consider amusing, just
Shooting and fishing and up with the sun;
And then in the evening they're always exhausted,
Yet we who've been working could do with some fun!
Yes, do with some fun!
YOUNG GIRLS
Oh, Captain Petrovich, we beg
You to tell us the name of your regiment!
CAPTAIN
Certainly! But why aren't you dancing?
Well, no one has asked us to.
In that case, dear ladies, the pleasure is mine!
Look at them! Look at them!
Now what could be plainer!
She must find a husband. That's him for sure!
How sad for Tatyana, for once they are married
She'll find he's a tyrant.
He gambles, what's more!
He's most discourteous and conceited; the
Things he says can't be repeated!
He's a freemason, so they say, and ends up drunk
On wine each day.
ONEGIN
So that's your verdict! No more of this! I'm tired
Of hearing their dreary gossip! Derives me right,
Though, for coming.
Whatever brought me here to this confounded ball?
Yes, what? I can't forgive Vladimir for persuading
Me to come, so I'll dance again with Olga for that
Will make him jealous. Here she is. . . Allow me!
LENSKY
But you had promised me this dance!
ONEGIN
You're mistaken there, my friend!
LENSKY
She's smiling at him! I must be dreaming! Olga!
What's come over you?
CHORUS
Such a party! Such a surprise! What delightful dancing!
The party's at its height. How delightful!
VERSO IN RUSSIAN
Vot tak syurpriz, nikak nye ozhidali voyennoi muzyiki!
Vyesyelye khot (s) kuda! Davno uzh nass, Davno uzh nass,
Tak nye ugoshchali! Na slavu pir, nye pravdal, gospoda
Bravo, bravo, vot tak syurpriz nam, bravo, bravo slavnyi
Syurpriz dlyanass!
Uzh davno nass tak nye ugoshchali! Pirna slavu, nye
Pravdal gospodal!
Vnashikh pomyestyakh nye chastovstryechayem bala
Vyesylovo radostnyi blyesk.
Tolko okhotoi syebya razvlyekayem, lyub nam okhotnichi
Go mon I tryesk.
ELDERLY LADIES
Nu, uzh vyesyelye, dyen tsyelyi lyetayut po dye-bryam,
Polyanam, bolotam, kustam!
Ustanut, zalyagut, I vsyo otdyikhayut, I vot razvlyechenye
Dlya byednyikh vsyekh dam!
Dlya byednyikh vsyekh dam!
YOUNG GIRLS
Akh, Trifon Pyetrovich, kak mi lyi vyi, pravo, myi tak
Blagodarnyivam...
CAPTAIN
Polnotyes. . . ya sam ochem schastliv!
GIRLS
Poplyashem na slavu myi!
CAPTAIN
Ya tozhe namyeren, nachnyomtyezh plyasat (s)!
Glantyeka! Glyantyeka! Tantsuyut pizhonyi!
Davno uzh pora byi. . . nu, zhenishok! Kak
Zhalko Tanyushu! Vozmyot yeyov zhonyi i
Budyet tiranit (s)! On slyishno igrok!
On nyeuch strashnyi, sumassbrodit, on
Damam kroochkye nye pod khodit, on
Farmazon, on pyot odno stakanom krassnoye
Vino!
ONEGIN
I vot vam mnyenye! Naslushalssya dovolno ya,
Raznyikh splyetyen myerzkikh! Po dyelom mnye
Vssyo ehto! Zachem priyekhal ya na ehtot glupyi
Bal? Zachem? Ya nye proshchu Vladimiru uslugu
Eh-tu! Budu ukhazhivat (s) - za Olgoi vzbyeshu yevo
Poryadkom! Vot ona!. . . Proshu vass!
LENSKY
Vyi obyeshchali mnye tyepyer!
ONEGIN
Oshibssya vyerno tyi!
LENSKY
Akh, shto takoye! Glazam nye vyeryu! Olga!
Bozhe, shto so mnoi. . .
Pir na slavu! Vot tak syurpriz! Vot tak ugoshchenye!
Vyesyelye khot (s) kuda!
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