PRIMA DONNA
Andre/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
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 . . .
Andre/Firmin
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Prima donna the world is at your feet!
A nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated!
Raoul
His game is over!
Giry
This is a game you cannot hope to win!
Carlotta
The stress that falls upon a famous prima donna!
Terrible diseases, coughs and colds and sneezes!
Still, the driest throat will reach the highest note,
in search of perfect opera!
Meg/Giry
. . . then I fear the outcome . . next |
