Так что вот она, центральная ария Клэггарта, вот он, Гидон Сакс в роли Клэггарта. Надо сказать, в феврале этого года он был больше в голосе и пел эту арию еще лучше. Но и в декабре тоже получилось очень и очень пронзительно и проникновенно.
Ах, да, вот еще для удобства - текст этой арии. Можно следить за словами и даже подпевать.
O beauty, o handsomeness, goodness!
Would that I never encountered you!
Would that I lived in my own world always,
in that depravity to which I was born.
There I found peace of a sort, there I established
an order such as reigns in Hell. But alas, alas!
The lights shines in the darkness comprehends
it and suffers. O beauty, o handsomeness, goodness!
Would that I had never seen you!
Having seen you, what choice remains to me?
None, none! I'm doomed to annihilate you,
I'm vowed to your destruction.
I will wipe you off the face of the heart,
off this ship where fortune has led you.
First I will trouble your happiness.
I will mutilate and silence the body where you dwell.
It shall hang from the yard-arm,
it shall fall into the depths of the sea,
and all shall be as if nothing had been.
No, you cannot escape!
With hate and envy I'm stronger than love.
So may it be!
O beauty, o handsomeness, goodness!
You are surely in my power tonight.
Nothing can defend you.
Nothing! So may it be!
For what hope remains if love can escape?
If love still lives and grows strong where I cannot enter,
what hope is there in my own dark world for me?
No! I cannot believe it! That were torment to keen.
I, John Claggart,
Master-at-Arms upon the "Indomitable",
have you in my power, and I will destroy you.