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In London in 1665, a group of people feast during a plague. A Young Man asks them to remember a friend who has died. Walsingham instead calls for silence and asks Mary to sing; Louisa doubts Mary’s sincerity. After the sound of a dead-cart frightens Louisa, the Young Man asks Walsingham to sing a hymn. A priest enters and condemns the group for disrespecting the dead, but Walsingham sends him away, and the feasters return to their meal.
Natacha, the miller’s daughter, learns that the prince she loves will marry a wealthy princess and throws herself into the Dnieper. Years later, the prince is drawn back to the river by her voice. Natacha has become queen of the rusalkas, and her father pushes the prince into the water, where the rusalkas bring his body to her.
Saltan chooses Militrisa as his bride and goes to war. Her jealous sisters and Babarikha replace the message telling him of the birth of his son, so he orders mother and child sealed in a barrel and cast into the sea. They reach the island of Buyan, where Gvidon rescues a Swan-Bird. She creates a city and helps Gvidon visit his father disguised as a bumblebee. After hearing sailors describe the island’s wonders, Saltan travels there. The Swan-Bird reveals herself as a princess, and Saltan is reunited with his wife and son.
In London in 1665, a group of people feast during a plague. A Young Man asks them to remember a friend who has died. Walsingham instead calls for silence and asks Mary to sing; Louisa doubts Mary’s sincerity. After the sound of a dead-cart frightens Louisa, the Young Man asks Walsingham to sing a hymn. A priest enters and condemns the group for disrespecting the dead, but Walsingham sends him away, and the feasters return to their meal.
Natacha, the miller’s daughter, learns that the prince she loves will marry a wealthy princess and throws herself into the Dnieper. Years later, the prince is drawn back to the river by her voice. Natacha has become queen of the rusalkas, and her father pushes the prince into the water, where the rusalkas bring his body to her.
Saltan chooses Militrisa as his bride and goes to war. Her jealous sisters and Babarikha replace the message telling him of the birth of his son, so he orders mother and child sealed in a barrel and cast into the sea. They reach the island of Buyan, where Gvidon rescues a Swan-Bird. She creates a city and helps Gvidon visit his father disguised as a bumblebee. After hearing sailors describe the island’s wonders, Saltan travels there. The Swan-Bird reveals herself as a princess, and Saltan is reunited with his wife and son.