Prima Donna Lyrics - The Phantom Of The Opera - Soundtrack

ANDRE 

Your public needs you! 

FIRMIN 

We need you, too! 

CARLOTTA (unassuaged) 

Would you not 

rather have your 

precious little 

ingenue? 

ANDRE/FIRMIN 

Signora, no! 

the world wants you! 

(The MANAGERS adopt their most persuasive attitudes) 

ANDRE/FIRMIN 

Prima donna 

first lady of the stage! 

Your devotees 

are on their knees 

to implore you ! 

ANDRE 

Can you bow out 

when they're shouting 

your name? 

FIRMIN 

Think of how they all 

adore you! 

BOTH 

Prima donna, 

enchant us once again! 

ANDRE 

Think of your muse . . . 

FIRMIN 

And of the queues 

round the theatre! 

BOTH 

Can you deny us the triumph 

in store? 

Sing, prima donna, once more! 

(CARLOTTA registers her acceptance as the 

MANAGERS continue to cajole and the OTHERS reflect 

variously on the situation) 

RAOUL 

Christine spoke of an angel . . . 

CARLOTTA (to herself, in triumph) 

Prima donna 

your song shall live again! 

ANDRE/FIRMIN (to CARLOTTA) 

Think of your public! 

CARLOTTA 

You took a snub 

but there's a public 

who needs you! 

GIRY (referring to CHRISTINE) 

She has heard the voice 

of the angel of music . . . 

ANDRE/FIRMIN (to CARLOTTA) 

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 . . .? 

ANDRE (to FIRMlN) 

We get our opera . . . 

FIRMIN (to ANDRE) 

She gets her limelight! 

CARLOTTA 

Follow where the limelight 

leads you! 

MEG 

Is this ghost 

an angel or a madman . . .? 

RAOUL 

Angel or madman . . .? 

ANDRE/FIRMIN (aside) 

Leading ladies are a trial! 

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 . . . 

ANDRE/FIRMIN 

Tears . . . oaths . . . 

Iunatic demands 

are regular occurrences! 

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 . . . 

ANDRE/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! 

ANDRE/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/RAOUL 

Christine must be protected! 

CARLOTTA 

O, fortunata! 

Non ancor 

abbandonata! 

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 

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 . . . 

ANDRE/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 diseases, 

coughs and colds and sneezes! 

Still, the dryest throat 

will reach the highest note, 

in search of perfect 

opera! 

MEG/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'S VOICE 

So, it is to be war between us! If these demands are not 

met, a disaster beyond your imagination will occur! 

ALL 

Once more! 

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