文档介绍：I am bid. Six, seven. Against you, sir, seven. prologue
Eight. 1. rehearal for Hannibal by Chalumeau
Eight once. Sel
(spoken) Showing here. RAOUL (quietly, half to himself, half to the
box)
AUCTIONEER
(spoken) Do I have ten francs? Five then. Five A collector's piece indeed . .
every detail exactly as she said . . . SLAVE GIRLS are played by MEG GIRY and
CHRISTINE DAAE. MME. GIRY is the She often spoke of you, my friend .... ballet mistress. M. REYER, the repetiteur, is Your velvet lining, and your figurine小塑像 in charge.
of lead...
We join the opera towards the end of Will you still play, when all the rest of us are ELISSA's (CARLOTTA's) great aria. She is dead? alone, holding a pre. from the approaching
HANNIBAL, a bleeding severed head) (Attention returns to the AUCTIONEER, as he
resumes) CARLOTTA (at the climax of an extravagant
cade)
AUCTIONEER
This trophy from our saviours, from the (spoken) Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. enslaving force of Rome!
Some of you may recall the strange affair of
the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never (A STAGE HAND carries a ladder across the fully explained. We are told ladies and stage. OTHERS are seen still constructing gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier parts of the scenery)
which figures in the famous disaster. Our
workshops have restored it and fitted up parts GIRLS' CHORUS
of it with wiring for the new electric light, so
that we may get a hint of what it may look like With feasting and dancing and song, when re- assembled. Perhaps we may frighten tonight in celebration
away the ghost of so many years ago with a we greet the victorious throng, little illumination, gentlemen? returned to bring salvation!
(The AUCTIONEER switches on the MEN'S CHORUS
chandelier. There is an enormous flash, and
the OVERTURE The trumpets of Carthage resound ! begins. During the overture the opera house is Hear, Romans, now and tremble! restored to its earlier grandeur. The chandeli