TODD - Act 1 "II. A Ballad about a Poor Barber"

The Tramp: You will not find a story, which would be more horrifying, and a ballad, which would be sadder, than the one about a poor barber Todd and his beautiful young wife Betty.

With a little baby-daughter and pretty Betty, there lived a merry barber in a cozy house. But once, on a way home after an execution, a lustful judge happened to meet that beautiful woman.

- The lustful Judge happened to meet the beautiful Betty.

The Judge’s reckoning was mercilessly accurate: he cooked up a case on false accusations, and, being separated from his wife and daughter, the poor barber was exiled to penal servitude.

The scoundrel Judge harassed Betty, while her husband was chained in iron. At dawn, she threw herself into the river, and the young body floated on the Thames.

- The young body floated on the Thames.

You will not find a sadder story, neither in "The Times", nor in another daily newspaper, than the one about the poor barber Todd and his beautiful young wife Betty.

- ...and his beautiful young wife Betty.

- ...and his beautiful young wife Betty.

The narrator’s voice: With hope in his heart and a razor in his pocket, the falsely accused Sweeney Todd returns to his hometown after his twenty-year penal servitude. There, he learns that his wife committed suicide, and the little daughter disappeared, traceless.

TODD - Act 1 "Feast of Blood" - Korol i Shut:

TODD - Акт 1 "Баллада о Бедном Цирюльнике" - Король и Шут