"THE DAMNATION OF FAUST" "Dramatic Legend by Hector Berlioz" "The fading winter is yielding to the spring." "Nature is young once more." "From heaven ..." "From heaven's endless canopy" "heavy torrents of glittering light pour down." "I feel the morning breeze." "The stirring of the air." "From my burning breast the purest breath expires." "I hear around me everywhere the awakening of birds." "The steady, bold resurgence of plant life and rushing streams." "Oh, how sweet it is to live at the font of solitude." "Far away from human strife and the teeming multitude." "The shepherds abandon grazing flocks and garb themselves in dancing frocks." "Wild flowers adorn them all." "They're off to the maypole for a ball." "Ha, ha!" "Ha, ha, ha!" "Hey!" "To the fiddle's agile strings." "What are these shouts and cries?" "What's the distant clamour?" "It's the villagers who rose at break of day." "They dance and sing for joy on the verdant green." "My misery is jealous of their merriment." "Round and round they go." "Right, then left, then dos-à-dos." "Dresses whirl en masse." "Foreheads are becoming red." "Bodies warm and wed." "Soon couples are entwined." "Elbows and arms inclined." "Don't touch me there so tenderly." "My wife is sober and might happen to see." "He coaxed her from the maypole to where the music was faint and far." "Ha, ha!" "Ha, ha, ha!" "Hey!" "The music and the dancing." "But suddenly the pastures become a battlefield." "As the Danube's sons prepare to fight a war." "Behold the pride and joy with which they beartheir arms." "What fire in their eyes!" "Every heart rejoices to their victory cry." "Only mine stays cold." "Unmoved by glory's lure." "With no regret I left the laughing meadowland." "But monotony followed me." "Pleasureless I revisit our haughty mountain peaks." "I return to my urbanity with boredom in my bags." "How I suffer!" "And the starless night, which has enveloped all the earth in silence of uncertain worth," "adds darkness to my sorrows, deprives my soul of mirth." "Good Earth!" "Am I the only one you have no blooms to offer?" "Where in the world will I ever find that which my life is lacking?" "I searched in vain." "Joy escapes my yearning gaze." "It's time to end it all." "But I tremble." "I tremble before the brink that opens wide before me." "Oh, cup that has evaded my desire so long!" "Come, noble crystal!" "Give me the poison which will enlighten me or snuff my candle out." "Christ is risen." "What do I hear?" "Up from the grave's dark, dank abode," "He goes to his Father's mansion with transfigured mien." "While He hastens with unswerving strides" "to greater glory on high," "His loyal disciples languish below and suffer utter despair and gloom." "He's leaving us behind" "under stinging darts of misery." "Oh, divine Master, your happiness is" "the cause of all our sadness." "Oh, divine Master, you are leaving us behind under stinging darts of misery." "Oh, memories!" "Christ is risen today!" "Oh, my trembling soul!" "On the wings of song you soar into the skies." "My vacillating faith reinforced returns." "Restoring the blessed peace of my more pious days." "A happy childhood." "My sweet hours of prayer." "Pure, untarnished bliss of wandering dreamily among the grassy glens." "In the never ending light of the springtime sun." "Oh, kiss of love divine!" "You fill my aching heart with premonitions fine." "You chase my morbid wants and dismal drives away." "Hosanna!" "Oh, hymns of reverence!" "Why dust off old desires, awaken thoughts banned long ago?" "Songs of piety!" "Why come out of the past to block my chosen path?" "Your soft voice and tender call my heart anew enthral." "Songs sweeterthan radiant dawns resound again so clear." "I have shed those tears again." "Heaven has conquered me." "Oh, pure emotion!" "Child of paradise!" "I admire you, doctor!" "The pious tolling of these silver bells has completely charmed your ravaged ears." "Who are you, whose ardent scrutiny pierces like a dagger point?" "Which burns like a flame and consumes the soul?" "Really, for a doctor your question is quite trite." "I am the spirit of life." "The source of consolation." "I will give you everything." "Happiness." "Great pleasure." "All you ever fancied in yourwildest dreams." "Come on, pitiful devil." "Show me your miracles!" "It's a deal." "I'll treat your eyes and ears." "Instead of locking yourself in like a sullen bookworm, come, follow me." "Get some fresh air." "I agree." "Let us set out to get a taste of life." "Leave your stuffy philosophy behind." "More wine!" "More nectar of the Rhine!" "Here, Faust, a place of jolly fellowship!" "Here the drinking and singing make life well worth living." "Oh, how it cheers you, when the heaven thunders," "to sit and sip hot punch from a heated bowl." "To get as full as a barrel in a smoke-filled tavern." "I love my wine and the amberwater that float all my cares away." "When my dear mother put me in this world she chose a heavy drinker for my patron saint." "Who of you knows an entertaining story?" "Laughter adds vintage to the wine." "Yourturn, Brander!" "He can't remember a thing." "I know one." "I thought it up myself." "Good, spit it out!" "If you all insist, I'll sing you something new." "A rat once lived in a kitchen like a fatted friar." "His countenance would be the envy of Martin Luther." "But one day the poor devil was poisoned and fled his home." "He was as utterly miserable as if he were smitten by love." "He ran in turmoil to and fro and drank the brew of puddles." "Gnawed, scratched all overthe house." "The rabid rat was on fire." "At the border of delirium when push had come to shove, mocking watchers were convinced the rat was a victim of love." "He sought the oven as a refuge from his plight and others' pun." "But the hothead was mistaken." "They roasted him well done." "The fervent servant laughed to see the browning rat in his own fat." "Ah, he's stuffed and nicely grilled, seasoned by the spice of love." "Requiescat in pace!" "Amen!" "This amen deserves a fugue." "A fugue and a chorale." "Let's use our skill and improvise dainty tarts and pies." "Listen to this!" "Doctor, we're about to experience bestiality in the raw." "Amen." "By God, gentlemen, your fugue is very good." "When you hear it you would think you were visiting a sacred shrine." "If I may say so your style is savvy." "Truly religious." "You couldn't find a betterway to express the pious sentiments which at the end of every prayer churches sum up in a single word." "I'll outdo that, outsinging a lark on a subject that's never off the mark." "What's that?" "Is he making fun of us?" "Who is this man with skin so pale?" "With hair as red as a sunset's trail?" "Another song!" "Once there was a friendly flea who lodged with a brave prince." "The man loved his lodger as if she were his daughter." "It's true, I tell you, the prince called his taillor and had him measure the flea for a set of courtly garments." "The insect was delighted to be dressed in silk and velvet." "The humble bug was fitted out and adorned with golden rings." "She summoned her country cousins to gape at her in awe." "Noble statesmen they became by order of the sovereign." "But the vested lords and ladies considered them a plague." "All the royal highnesses, plain to see, not vague, scratched away the livelong day in silence to obey." "We itched and bitched, and took a fright at each lowly bite." "Bravo!" "Bravo!" "We itched and bitched and swatted till they all took flight." "Enough!" "Let us leave this place, where language is so vile." "Where the joy is vulgar and the gestures crude." "Have you no other pleasures?" "No spot more blissful than this?" "Lead, infernal guide!" "What?" "That's not your style?" "Follow me." "Look at the gorgeous roses that this night discloses" "on this perfumed bed." "Rest, beloved Faust." "Repose." "In a lustful sleep." "Let yourself be swept away in bouquets of scarlet kisses." "While flowers on your sheets open their buds for you." "Your ears will thrill to sentences sublime." "Listen!" "The spirits of the earth and air are tuning up to evoke your dream" "with a lovely overture." "Sleep!" "You happy" "Faust!" "Very soon under a veil" "uniting gold and azure, oh, happy Faust," "your eyes will slowly close." "On the firmament above" "your rising starwill shine." "Reveries of love will at last engulf you." "You happy Faust!" "Very soon under a veil uniting gold and azure your eyes will slowly close." " Above my eyes ..." " On the firmament ..." " ... a veil already falls." " ... your rising starwill shine." "Watch the young lovers strolling through the valley." "They forget their cares in the sumptuous vegetation." "A beauty rare follows them." "She will love you." "Margarethe!" "The lake extends its waves and surrounds the rolling hills." "Through the verdant landscape the brooks meander blithely." "Idyllic songs of glee echo from the distant shore." "Other choirs never cease." "Their dancing is pure delight." "Some of them are striding around the countryside." "The daring hurl themselves into the icy stream." "The waves of the lake surround the rolling hills." "Through the verdant landscape the brooks meander blithely." "Everywhere timid birds are seeking" "shadows and cool air." "The magic's working." "We've got him now." "Everyone goes to the marshes to taste what life has to offer." "Everyone seeks an ideal on high." "Searches there forthe light of his life." "The cherished star which shines for him alone," "which Amour has chosen." "Sleep!" "Well done, my little sprites." "I'm satisfied with you." "Rock him, rock him into enchanted sleep." "Margarethe!" "What have I seen?" "A celestial image, an angel with a human countenance!" "Where to find her?" "At what sacred altar should I pay her homage?" "All right." "You must follow me again." "To the perfumed boudoir where your beloved lies." "The heavenly treasure is reserved for you alone." "A very merry student throng will pass her door before too long." "Among these juvenile revellers, borne by their joyful songs, we'll take you to your maiden fair." "But keep your eagerness in bounds." "And follow my directions." "Citadels with walls and ramparts." "Sugar-sweet girls with haughty airs." "Victory's mine in your company." "The steeperthe climb, the higherthe reward." "When the bugles sound young soldiers rally round." "They charge into romance and engage the foe." "Citadels and lovely belles surrenderto their storm." "Jam nox stellata velamina pandit." "Nunc, nunc bibendum et amandum est." "Vita brevis fugaxque voluptas." "Gaudeamus igitur, gaudeamus!" "Nobis sub ridente luna, per urbem quaerentes puellas eamus!" "Nobis sub ridente luna, per urbem quaerentes puellas eamus!" "Ut cras fortunati Caesares, dicamus:" "Veni, vidi, vici!" "Gaudeamus, gaudeamus, gaudeamus igitur!" "Thank you, blessed eventide." "Welcome, welcome!" "Open at long last the sanctuary I never knew." "My furrowed brow is pacified by a lovely dream." "Like the fragrant kiss of a rising morning." "It must be love." "It's love at last, I hope." "Oh, how one feels it here." "Worries drift away." "How I love this silence." "I breathe the fresh, pure air." "Oh, charming maiden fair." "My ideal, beyond compare." "What enchantment I feel now." "In decision's moment." "How I love to contemplate the virgin bed, my priceless fate." "Oh, how pure the air I breathe!" "Oh, Lord!" "Oh, Lord!" "After all my suffering." "What bliss awaits." "I hear her." "Take cover behind the silk curtains." "God, the joy will break my heart!" "Bide yourtime and say farewell." "Take it slow or you will lose her." "That's right." "My sprites and I will sing a pretty wedding lullaby." "Be calm, my soul." "The air is stifling." "I'm as frightened as a child." "My dream of yesternight has made my thoughts run wild." "I saw him in my sleep." "The man who is made for me." "Love of my life." "Oh, how he wanted me!" "How he wanted me!" "And how I wanted him!" "Will we ever get together on this earthly plane?" "I sanity!" "Once upon a time in Thule a faithful king did rule." "I his saddest hour he received a goblet from his dying queen." "He took it always to his lip." "At every banquet and ball." "He shed a tearwith every sip." "The queen remained his all and all." "When his turn came to pass away he counted his cities and his gold." "He spread the wealth among his heirs." "But his goblet he saw fit to withhold." "He summoned to his table his knights and his peers-to-be." "They sat in a worthy setting in a castle by the sea." "The drinker left the banquet hall and went out to the balcony." "He cast the treasured goblet into the waves in agony." "The goblet sank into the deep." "The surf welled up and calmed again." "He dropped his eyes and gravely vowed not to drink a drop from then." "Once upon a time in Thule" "a faithful king" "did rule." "Spirits of the flickering flames!" "Hurry here!" "I have need of you." "Hurry up!" "Hurry up!" "Faithless, fickle fairies!" "Your seductive glow is required to charm a damsel and to acquire her soul." "I Satan's name, pick up your feet!" "And you are called to keep the beat, you fiddlers straight from hell, or I will snuff you out." "And now we'll sing the belle a melody of virtue" "to thoroughly corrupt her." "What is your bidding here at the door of the one you adore?" "Little Margie at crack of dawn, eager as never before?" "At desire's knock a maid will be admitted to his iniquitous den." "No chaste girl will depart." "When he extends his arms into his embrace you'll dash." "Good night, sleep tight, you innocent babe." "At the threshold bold resist as in the days of old." "Don't relent to his advance" "unless he offers a wedding ring." "Get out of here!" "Silence!" "Let's listen to ourturtle doves coo." "Good God, what do I see?" "ls it really he?" "Can I believe my eyes?" "Angel adored." "Your image divine illuminated my heart before I ever met you." "Finally I can see you." "The sombre clouds of jealousy which hid you from me for so long are banished by my ardent love." "Margarethe, I love you." "You know my name?" "And I have uttered, chanted yours." "Faust." "That's what they call me." "But you may call me anything that's sweeterto your ears." "I saw you in my dreams." "I our dreams." "You looked the same as now." "You saw me?" "I recognize your voice." "Your face." "Your gentle words." "Did you love me?" "I ... longed for you." "Beloved Margarethe!" "My passion aroused, I surrendered to you then." "Margarethe is mine!" "My beloved Faust." "Your noble, gracious face." " Angel divine." " My beloved Faust." " Your heavenly body ..." " Your noble, gracious face ... illuminated my heart before I ever met you." "Finally I can see you." "The sombre clouds of jealousy which hid me from you for so long" "are banished by my ardent love." "Margarethe, tender sensation!" "What is this intoxication?" "It is a hellish, burning passion." " What has thrown me into his arms?" " The flame that has led me to you." "Margarethe, tender sensation!" "What is this intoxication?" "It is a hellish, burning passion." "Fiery enchantment." " What has thrown me into his arms?" " The flame that has led me to you." "Oh, what yearning!" "My whole being is overcome!" "You will find true joy." "You will be reborn in my vital arms." " My eyes are full of tears." " Come, come!" " I m fainting." " Come!" "Come, come!" "Spinning." "Fainting." "Get out!" "It's late." " Who is that fellow?" "A fool!" " A friend!" "His keen gaze tears my heart apart." "I hope I m not disturbing." "Who let you in?" " We have to save that angel." "By now all the neighbours, awakened by our songs so loud, expose this home to a growing crowd." "Rebuking Margarethe." "Calling her mother." "She'll come running." "What shall we do?" "Get out of here." " The hell I will!" "You'll meet again tomorrow." "Commensurate consolation will follow your frustration." "Yes, tomorrow, dear." "In the room next door I hear a great commotion." "Farewell, night divine, short-lived dream of mine." "The festival of love that I so anticipated." "Let's go, day is dawning." "Will we ever meet again, fleeting hour of bliss?" "When my soul was blossoming in belated happiness." "Awake, Mother Oppenheim!" "See what your girl is doing!" "The mob is near!" "Take our advice." "It's a den of vice." "We have to hurry." "She soon will be in trouble." "You'll have another mouth to feed." "Heavens!" "Do you hearthe mob?" "I swearto God I m lost if they find you here." "A knock!" " Insanity!" "Escape through the garden!" "My angel, till tomorrow." " Tomorrow." "I ve finally learned life's value." " Happiness revealed itself." " I will capture you." "Take my life." " Love has snared my soul." " Your desire is still not sated." "Love your downfall." "Slyly baited." "Love has filled my soul." "New life has flooded me." "it's doubled your insanity." "And the moment is coming when you will belong to me." " I will still my burning desire." " I m possessed." "Losing you means I die." "The moment is coming when you will belong to me." "Love filled my soul." "New life has flooded me." "Oh, my darling, my life I would give you." "Love will fast infect you and double your insanity." "Love's burning flame consumes me in my prime." "My soul will know no peace." "My heart no reason nor rhyme." "Flee while there's a little time." "His leaving and his absence nailed my casket prematurely." "He's lost forever." "I miss him sorely." "All my world's in mourning." "My poor head is spinning and ill at ease." "My fainting heart will surely stop." "I know it is going to freeze." "I admire his gait." "His graceful posture too." "His smile seals my fate." "His eyes heavenly blue." "And his eloquence casts a magic spell." "Words like tender arms that hold me reverently." "His fine hands were fashioned for caressing." "And his kiss of fire!" "Love's burning flame consumes me in my prime." "My soul will know no peace." "My heart no reason nor rhyme." "Flee while there's a little time." "I wait at my window, or outside, Faust to discern." "To catch a glimpse of him or hasten his return." "To speed his fancied step my heart is in a race." "If only runaway tenderness could accelerate his pace!" "Caresses of fire!" "I wish I could once more let my soul melt away in the heat" "of his scorching kisses." "When the bugles sound young soldiers rally round." "Soon everybody in town will lie down to sleep." "The steeperthe climb, the higherthe reward." "Drums and trumpets I hear again like the ones I heard that night." "The gleeful songs of that night of love when I first set eyes on Faust." "He's not coming!" "He's not coming!" "Alas!" "Nature, vast, immense." "lmpenetrable, sovereign." "You alone can give me" "rest from my boundless sorrow." "Your voluptuous bosom cushions my misery." "Renewing my strength." "I feel I m alive again." "Rage, mighty hurricanes." "Murmur, forest thickets." "Crumble!" "Crumble, boulders." "Torrents!" "Come roaring down the hills." "Yourthunderous concerto" "invites my voice to join the turbulence." "Forests!" "Boulders!" "Torrents!" "I worship you." "Oh brightly sparkling worlds, to you I speed my heart." "A heart that's too expansive and a soul that thirsts for more." "They search the sky for fugitive happiness." "Can you make out in the blue yonder the star of eternal love?" "My friend, you need its influence to put you back on course." "Because you're dreaming while this poor child," "Margarethe ..." " Shut up!" "I guess I should shut up." "You stopped loving her." "She's been thrown into a dungeon." "Condemned to die forthe murder of her mother." "What?" "I hear hunters prowling in the woods." "Go on!" "What are you saying?" "Margarethe in prison?" "A brownish sleeping potion." "A harmless-looking poison, which you had given her to lull her mother into oblivion while you two were making love, was too much forthe frail soul." "Fantasizing about her Faust she waited every night for you." "Regularly her mother got" "a potent sleep inducer." "The old lady died of her girl's devotion." "Understand it now?" "Tribulation!" "Look what her love for you has done to the poor child." "Save her, you debaucher!" "Now you're blaming me!" "So is the lot and folly of the silly human race." "So what!" "I still have the power to open this door." "But what have you done for me since I ve been your servant?" "What are yourterms?" "My terms?" "Nothing but a signature on this scrap of antique parchment." "I ll save Margarethe at once." "If you swear a solemn oath to serve me starting from tomorrow." "Who cares about tomorrow?" "I m suffering tonight." "All right." "That's my name." "Let us swiftly fly to her sombre dwelling place." "Oh what anguish I suffer!" "Margarethe, I m coming!" "Come here, Vortex, Giaour!" "Onto the pitch black stallions, no soonerthought than done." "Mount them, giddy up!" "Justice knows no pardon." "My heart reverberates with her despairing call." "You poor, abandoned child!" "Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis." "Sancta Magdalena, ora pro nobis." "Watch out forthe praying children and women at the foot of the cross." "Who cares?" "Forward!" "Sancta Margarita ..." "God!" "A hideous, howling demon's on ourtail." "You're dreaming." "A giant flock of nighthawks." "What awful shrieks!" "They thrash me with theirwings." "Her death bell tolls already." "If you're afraid we'll turn around." "No, I hear it." "Faster!" "Look around us now." "At the endless row of dancing skeletons." "Hearthe horrible laughter our riding by provokes!" "Save her!" "Bury thoughts of the dead!" "The horses shudder." "They tearthe reins apart." "Under us I see the earth collapse." "Thunder roars." "it's raining blood." "Regiments of hell, sound the march of victory." "He's ours now!" "I m the victor." "lrimiru Karabrao!" "This soul once so stubborn will do your bidding now" "and always, Mephisto!" "I m his master from now on." "Faust signed of his own accord?" "The document that dooms him to roast forever in our blaze?" "Of his own accord." "Tradioun marexil firtru dincxe burrudixe." "Fory my dinkorlitz." "O merikariu!" "O mevixe!" "Merikariba!" "O merikariu!" "O mi dara caraibo lakinda, merondor dinkorlitz." "Merondor dinkorlitz, merondor." "Tradioun marexil," "Tradioun burrudixé, Trudinxe caraibo." "Fir ome vixe merondor." "Mit aysko, merondor." "Mit aysko ..." "Diff!" "Diff!" "Merondor." "Merondor aysko!" "Has!" "Has!" "Satan!" "Has!" "Has!" "Belphegor!" "Has!" "Has!" "Mephisto!" "Has!" "Has!" "Kroix!" "Diff!" "Diff!" "Astaroth!" "Diff!" "Diff!" "Belzebuth!" "Belphegor!" "Astaroth!" "Mephisto!" "Sat, sat rayk ir kimour." "Has, has, Mephisto!" "lrimiru karabrao." "Hell has closed its trap." "Only the boiling bubbling of its wide lakes of fire" "and the gnashing of the teeth of the torturers of souls" "were still audible." "Terror and woe went on." "Agony could still be heard in the place below." "Woe and terror!" "Praise!" "Hosanna!" "Lord, her love overflowed." "Margarethe!" "Ascend to heaven, naive soul," "misguided by your love." "Come, attire yourself anew in the beauty you possessed" "before an error blemished it." "Come!" "The heavenly virgins." "Come!" "The heavenly virgins, your sisters, the seraphim," "will wipe away the tears that your recent earthly sorrows make you shed today." "Be sure to keep your hope alive and smile to greet your joy." "Come, Margarethe." "Copyright (c) 2000 TITELBILD Berlin Subtitler:" "Alan Wildblood et al."