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andrew lloyd webber - prima donna (film version) lyrics

[andre]
your public needs you

[firmin]
we need you too

[carlotta]
wouldn’t you rather have your precious little ingénue?

[andre & firmin]
signora, no! the world wants you

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 the queues ’round the theatre!

[andre, firmin & piangi]
can you deny us the triumph in store?
[andre, firmin
& piangi]
sing, prima donna, once more

think of your public

those who hear you liken you to an angel

[andre]
we get our opera

[andre & firmin]
leading ladies are a trial

tears…
oaths…
lunatic demands are regular occurrences

surely there’ll be further scenes—
worse than this!

[carlotta]
prima donna
your song shall live again
you took a snub
but there’s a public who needs you

think of the cry of undying support

follow
where the
limelight
leads you

prima donna
your song shall never die

you’ll sing again
and to unending ovation

think how you’ll shine in that final encore

sing prima donna once more

[raoul]
christine spoke of an angel

[mme giry]
she has heard the voice of the angel of music

[firmin]
she gets her limelight

[piangi]
when she sings, we see heaven

[raoul]
orders! warnings!
lunatic demands!

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
it’s just the sort of story
audiences adore
in fact, a perfect opera!

[carlotta]
o!
[?]
fortunata!
non ancor
abbandonata

[meg & giry]
for if his curse
is on this opera…

[all]
prima donna the world is at your feet
a nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated!
light up the stage with that age-old rapport
sing prima donna
once more!

- andrew lloyd webber lyrics

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