Marie Antoinette Part Five

Drumroll please!

It's worth saying that I embedded this video before it finished uploading. If you see this post and the video doesn't work then we've had last minute technical problems; more that possible!



And now for the, crossposted to my personal blog, post regarding this part

Sorry for the delay with this but it's finally online.

The exact translation in this video is probably a bit sloppy. I'm really out of practice with German which feels weird. It's almost like my old Elisabeth days when I had to stop and look things up every five minutes. Okay, in my really old Elisabeth days I had to look things up every five seconds but I digress. I was also rushing with this part to attempt to get it online and finished it at three a.m.. It's been three months since I uploaded the last part and, although I have good excuse, I feel really bad about that.

Claudia, a friend of mine from Austria, helped me with a line that was causing me real trouble so thank you to her <3

Also, I still can't get accents to render properly on my hard subbing so some words are missing accents. Of course, this doesn't really affect English but this musical does like to chuck in the odd bit of French (translations below).

Anyway, talking about the video:

Axel has this lovely line where he says 'Wir sind freier als die meisten Menschen.' (We're freer than many people). It's a lovely concept. Although they're unhappy he knows that, in comparison, they're lucky and shouldn't complain. Annoyingly, free isn't commonly seen in a comparative fashion, and I'm unsure if technically it can be as you're either free or not. Apparently, there is a word "freer" so that's the one I used.

Maskenspiel is translated as masque not masquerade. A masque is a kind of big entertainment play dance song thing put on by players (within courts). Traditionally, masks would be worn by the players so this is a big metaphorical thing beyond just saying "we wear masks". A masquerade, is a ball at which people wore masks so slight difference :-)

Translations:

Mainly French, again, with a bit of Latin. My Latin is very rusty as I learned it many years ago so may not be accurate. Axel also 'translates it' in the musical. In fact, my French is getting rusty too but that's a complete other story!

Trés jolie, ne c'est pas? - Very pretty, isn't it?

Oui - Yes

Bon soir, Monsieur Orléans! - Good Evening Mr. Orléans!

Palais Royal - Royal Palace

Non! - No

Bien sur. - For sure.

Bien oui - Well yes

S'il vous plaît! - If you please (also means just "please")

Pour le plaisir - For pleasure. (This is kinda creepy in context!)

Dolore Fortiter - Sorrow bravely (Latin)

Quelle que soit - Whatever

Excuse-moi, chéri - Excuse me, dear.

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This was originally posted on my LiveJournal account and Digne posted a very interesting comment on the meaning of freedom so it's worth going across there to read that. I also realised that, having posted at 3:00 a.m., most of the post was complete gobbledygook!

Subbing delay

I am really, really late with posting Marie Antoinette, as I promised, and I'm also really behind with the Tanz der Vampire libretto that I am still working on.

A lot has been going on in my life, most recently with my applying for a university in the Netherlands. Still waiting to hear if I will be offered an interview or not! Of course a lot of other stuff has been going on too but I won't go into it here because I have a personal blog for that!

I do, however, feel really guilty for keeping people waiting. I don't even know what part of Marie Antoinette I'm on, that's how long it's been. I'm going to look that up now and I'll get right down to translating now. I should be doing other things but oh well. I'm not going to make a libretto for Marie Antoinette, as I usually do and as I have planned to, and will focus on just getting the videos up. Not promising anything but wanted to say I'm still alive!

Tanz has been progressing slowly. At 2 a.m. when I have nothing better to do I sit down and do a bit of Tanz work ;-)