CHORISTERS

Choristers

The Count is coming!
The Count is coming!

To Yefremovo.
Which he owns.

Get ready the music.

Sacristan, is the choir ready?

Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.

Answers, Alexey Alexeitch the conductor and sacristan.

Practice makes perfect.
And practice they do.
Day and night.
Day after day.

Impressive thinks the little priest with the lilac cassock.

But not the deacon.

The deacon thinks the sacristan is wasting his time.

The count is an atheist.
He doesn't care for church music.

The sacristan hates the deacon.
The deacon thinks the sacristan is a fool.

The count is here!
The count is here!

Father Kuzma, the little priest with the lilac cassock, is knocking on the door of the sacristan.

What's going on?

No choir.

No Choir?

No choir.

The deacon is right.

The sacristan will never hear the end of it.

And then . . .

The deacon is also rejected.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.