Here's another sublime aria performed by Renee Fleming (it's one of my favorites). Unlike most operas that are in French, German, or Italian, Dvorak's Rusalka is in Czech, which is why I have such a hard time understanding the lyrics. I didn't take any Czech classes in college, and I'm sure most of you reading this blog, didn't either. Hopefully, this translation will be just as useful to you as it was for me. Learn the lyrics and translation to Dvorak's "Song to the Moon."
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The lyrics for song to the Moon was written in the language of the. “rusyn”
People from the Carpathian Mountain region of eastern Austro Hungarian
Empire region. This is the spoken language of some 3 million people and is also the language of the Byzantine Catholic Church. In the 1400′s, two. monks, st Cyril and st methodius converted the people of this region and introduces the Cyrillic language to the people. This is the language Dvorak. Used in ths opera . We still sing this in the Byzantine church not only here in America but also in Europe in the Carpathian Mountain region of what was czechoslovakia .
Thank you
Richard Baranko
Cantor
St Nicholas Byzantine catholic Church