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André and Firmin
Prima donna, first lady of the stage!
Your devotees are on their knees to implore you!
André
Can you bow out when they're shouting your name?
Firmin
Think of how they all adore you.
André and Firmin
Prima donna, enchant us once again
André
Think of your muse...
Firmin
And of the queues round the theatre!
André and Firmin
Can you deny us the triumph in store?
Sing, prima donna, once more!
Raoul
Christine spoke of an angel...
Carlotta
Prima donna, your song shall live again!
André and Firmin
Think of your public!
Carlotta
You took a snub,
but there's a public
who needs you!
Giry
She has heard the voice
of the angel of music...
André and Firmin
Those who hear your voice
liken you to an angel!
Carlotta
Think of their cry
of undying support!
Raoul
Is this her angel of music...?
André
We get our opera...
Firmin
She gets her limelight!
Carlotta
Follow where the limelight
leads you!
Meg
Is this ghost
an angel or a madman...?
Raoul
Angel or madmadman...?
André and Firmin
Leading ladies are a trial!
Carlotta
Prima donna,
your song shall never die!
Meg
Voice of hell, or of heaven...?
Giry
Heaven help you,
those who doubt...
Carlotta
You'll sing again,
and to unending ovation!
Raoul
Orders! Warnings!
Lunatic demands!
Giry
This miscasting
Will invite damnation...
André and Firmin
Tears... oaths...
lunatic demands
are regular occurences!
Meg
Bliss or damnation?
Which has claimed her...?
Carlotta
Think how you'll shine in that final
encore!
Sing, prima donna,
once more!
Giry
Oh fools,
to have flouted his warnings!
Raoul
Surely, for her sake...
Meg
Surely he'll strike back...
André and Firmin
Surely there'll be further scenes
worse than this!
Giry
Think, before these demands are rejected!
Raoul
...I must see these demands are rejected!
Meg-
...if his threats
and demands are rejected!
André and Firmin
Who'd believe a diva
happy to relieve a chorus girl,
who's gone and slept with the patron?
Raoul and the soubrette,
entwined in love's duet!
Although he may demur,
he must have been with her!
Meg and Raoul
Christine must be protected!
Carlotta
O, fortunata!
Non ancor
abbandonata! | |
André and Firmin
You'd never get away with all this in a play,
but if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue,
it's just the sort of story audiences adore,
in fact a perfect opera!
Raoul
His game is over!
Giry
This is a game you cannot hope to win!
Raoul
And in Box Five a new game will begin...
Giry
For, if his curse is on this opera...
Meg
But if his curse is on this opera...
André and Firmin
Prima donna,
the world is at your feet!
|A nation waits, and how it hates, to be cheated!
Carlotta
The stress that falls upon a famous prima donna!
Terrible deseases, coughs and colds and sneezes!
Still, the dryest throat will reach the highest note,
in search of perfect opera!
Meg and Giry
...then I fear the outcome...
Raoul
Christine plays the Pageboy,
Carlotta plays the Countess...
Giry
...should you dare to...
Meg
...when you once again...
All
Light up the stage with that age-old rapport!
Sing, prima donna, once more!
Phantom
(spoken)
So, it is war between us!
If these demands are not met,
a disaster beyond your imagination....will occur!
All
Once more!
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