Prima Donna lyrics

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

Andre & Firmin:

Prima donna, enchant us once again

Andre:

Think of your muse

Firmin:

And of your queues

'round the theatre!

Andre & 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

Andre & Firmin:

Think of your public

Carlotta:

You took a snub

But there's a ​public

who needs you

Madam Giry:

She has heard the voice

of the Angel of Music

Andre & 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?

Andre:

We get our Opera

Firmin:

She gets her limelight

Carlotta:

Follow ​where the

​limelight leads you

Andre & Firmin:

Leading ladies are a trial

Raoul:

Angel or madman?

Carlotta:

Prima Donna

Your song shall never die

You'll sing again

And to unending ovation

Madam Giry:

Heaven help you

​those who doubt

This miscasting

Will invite damnation

Andre & Firmin:

Tears, Oaths

Lunatic ​demands are regular occurrences

Raoul:

Orders, warnings

Lunatic demands!

Carlotta:

Think how you'll shine in that

​final encore

Sing Prima Donna

​once more

Andre & Firmin:

Surely

​there'll be further scenes

Worse than this!

Madam Giry:

Oh fools, to have flouted his warnings!

Think, before ​these demands

​are ​rejected!

Raoul:

Surely, for her sake,

I must see these demands are rejected!

Andre & Firmin:

Who'd believe a diva

Happy to relieve a

Chorus girl whose 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!

You'd never get away

With all this in a play

But if it's loudly sung

And in a foreign tongue

Meg & Raoul:

Christine must be protected!

Carlotta:

O! Fortunata!

Non ​ancor,

ab​ban​donata

Madam Giry:

This is a game you cannot hope to win!

Andre & Firmin:

It's just the sort of story

Audiences adore

In fact ​a perfect opera!

Raoul:

And in Box Five a new game will begin

Madam Giry:

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!

Madam Giry:

Then ​I fear ​the outcome

Should you dare to...

Raoul:

Christine plays the Pageboy,

Carlotta plays the Countess

All:

Light up the stage with that age-old rapport!

Sing prima donna, once more!

Once more!