【POTO】— — Prima Donna

Andr-
Your public needs you!

Firmin-
We need you too!

Carlotta-
Would you not rather have your precious little ingnue?

Andr and Firmin-
Signora, no. The world,  wants you.

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.

Andr and Firmin-
Prima donna, enchant us once again

Andr-
Think of your muse...

Firmin-
And of the queues round the theatre!

Andr and Firmin-
Can you deny us the triumph in store?

Andre and Firmin-
Sing, prima donna, once more!

Raoul-
Christine spoke of an angel...

Carlotta-
Prima donna, your song shall live again!

Andr and Firmin
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...

Andr and 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...?

Andr-
We get our opera...

Firmin-
She gets her limelight!

Carlotta-
Follow where the limelight leads you!

Meg-
Is this ghost an angel or a madman...?

Raoul-
Angel or madmadman...?

Andr and Firmin-
Leading ladies are a trial!

Carlotta-
Prima donna,
your song shall never die!

Meg-
Voice of hell, or of heaven...?

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...

Andr and Firmin
Tears... oaths...
lunatic demands
are regular occurences!

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...

Andr and 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!

Andr and 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 and Raoul
Christine must be protected!

Carlotta-
O, fortunata!

Non ancor abbandonata!

Andr and Firmin：

You'd never get awaywith all this in a play,
but if it's loudly sungand 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 gameyou 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...

Andr and 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 deseases, coughs and colds and sneezes! 

Still, the dryest throat will reach the highest note, in search of perfect opera!

Meg and 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(spoken)-
So, it is war between us! If these demands are not met, a disaster

beyond your imagination....will occur!

All-
Once more!