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ANDR

Your public needs you!



FIRMIN

We need you, too!



CARLOTTA

Would you not

rather have your

precious little

ingenue?



ANDRFIRMIN

Signora, no!

The world wants you!



ANDRFIRMIN

Prima donna,

first lady of the stage!

Your devotees

are on their knees

to implore you!



ANDR

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!



ANDR

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!

*

*RAOUL

*Christine spoke of an angel...

*

*CARLOTTA

*Prima donna,

your song shall live again!



*ANDRFIRMIN

*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...

*

*ANDRFIRMIN

*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...?

*

*ANDR

*We get our opera...



*FIRMIN

*She gets her limelight!

*

*CARLOTTA

*Follow where the limelight

*leads you!

*

*MEG

*Is this ghost

*an angel or madman...?

*

*RAOUL

*Angel or madman...?

*

*ANDRFIRMIN

*Leading ladies