mine
I look into your eyes
and hear your voice
- My beloved has returned
- Your beloved has returned
- I will have peace once more
- We are together, my love
I see my love once more
I have happiness,
joy and peace again
- My love, my gift from heaven
- My beloved joy
- My heart longed for you
- My dear beloved
- My love, my all
- You are with me, my love
How did you escape?
I fled in secret
When I learned the enemy was here
I fled to save this land...
...to call on all Russia
I've come to gather the regiments
and summon the princes...
...to stand again
against the enemy
I see my love once more
I have happiness,
joy and peace again
- My love, my gift from heaven
- My love, my beloved joy
- My heart longed for you
- My dear beloved
I shall rally the people...
...and attack the Khan again
The Khan, the horror of Russia,
will fall
- I'll vanquish the enemy
- The Khan will fall
Play, play, praise the prince
Prince Igor, Prince of Seversky
A prisoner, he gazes at the steppes
He fell to the Khan, dishonoured
He lost his army
and he's a prisoner
Against reason
he led his regiments...
...into battle at the wrong time
He murdered his people
on the steppes
He left his forces
in the quicksand
He dammed ponds
and paved bridges...
...with Russian gold and silver
He drowned his people
and lost his glory...
...in the Kayala
For all this, across Russia...
...across the world they reproach...
...Igor Svyatoslavich,
Prince of Seversky
They curse him in Posemye,
in Posuliye...
...in Kiev and on the Danube...
...in Pomorye
Play, play!
Prince Igor, Prince of Seversky
Look!
The Prince!
So what...
Oh dear,
this is bad news for us
What shall we do?
We are lost
They'll kill us
They'll surely kill us
They won't kill us
With our wits and our wine
we won't die in Russia
Let's think it over
Well?
Well?
Shall we run away?
Out of the frying pan
into the fire?
There's nowhere to run
Into the woods?
Gnaw a crust
after the Prince's bread?
Sip water
after the Prince's mead?
It's all finished with
You need to think
of something more clever
What?
Wait
Give me time
I've got it
Do you see that?
The bell tower?
Have you got it?
Why ring the bells?
To stay alive
and have our bread
And if we're clever
to have our wine
Call the people
Come here, Christian people.
We have good news
What is that ringing?
Are the Polovtsians coming?
Good news, brothers
Those drunkards are causing
an uproar
They're confusing people
Wait! What are you doing?
Good news for us
Has someone treated you
to a drink?
Treated us? No
When you hear the news
you'll be drunk with joy
The prince is back
Galitsky?
To hell with him
Not Galitsky
Our Prince Seversky
Igor Svyatoslavich!
How these drunkards lie!
Don't you believe us?
Look over there
He walks by the fortress
with the princess
There's his horse...
...and the Polovtsian
who came with him
The prince
Our prince
Has he really come back?
Our father has come back
Who brought the good news?
We were the first
The gudok-players?
The gudok-players, father
Prince Galitsky's men?
No, we're not Galitsky's men
Weren't you on the rebel's side?
Others were, not us,
we are Igor's men
Well, God bless you.
We'll forget what's past
Go in peace
God has enabled us
to see the Prince again...
...to meet him respectfully
with bread and salt...
...as was the custom in Rus
to celebrate him with glory
Glory to the multitude of stars
Glory in the high heavens
Glory to our princes
Glory with us in Rus
To the first of the great,
to the least of the low...
...to all our princes, glory
English subtitles
Philips Classics 2003