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[clock bell tolling]

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[audience chattering, murmuring]

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[conductor tapping baton]

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[orchestra playing classical ballet score]

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[chorus singing]

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[audience applauding]

[orchestra playing introduction]

[chorus] ♪ Some drink, drink, drink, drink, drink ♪

♪ Do you hear us about ♪

♪ You lazy lout ♪

♪ We want some beer We want some wine ♪

♪ We want some wine ♪

♪ We want some beer We want some wine ♪

♪ We want some beer We want some wine ♪

♪ Pour out the wine And drink and drink till morning ♪

♪ Pour out the wine For drinking is divine ♪

♪ It is divine ♪

♪ Pour out the wine And drink and drink till morning ♪

♪ Pour out the wine ♪

♪ Pour out the wine ♪

♪ And drink For drinking is divine ♪

♪ We want some wine And drink till morning ♪

♪ We want some wine And drink till morning ♪

♪ We want some wine We want some wine ♪

♪ And drink and drink till morning ♪

♪ We want some wine ♪

[all] Hey!

♪ Good day, my friends ♪

♪ Good day ♪

♪ A chair, a glass of wine and a pipe ♪

♪ Excuse me, Master If you don't mind ♪

♪ I'll sit and drink and smoke Same as you ♪

- ♪ Fair's fair ♪ - ♪ How true ♪

♪ Make a place for two Come on, make a place for two ♪

♪ Nott' e giorno mal dormire ♪

♪ The devil take you and Mozart ♪

♪ At once, sir ♪

[laughs] ♪ What makes you so put out ♪

♪ indeed we never would have known you ♪

♪ Now what on earth brought that about ♪

♪ Frozen earth all dead or dying ♪

♪ There in the snow buried deep ♪

♪ And outside where he was lying ♪

♪ The sight of a drunkard asleep ♪

♪ That's true ♪

♪ Seeing him there ♪

♪ A craving seized my brain ♪

♪ For drinking ♪

♪ Yes, drinking ♪

♪ Then do the same ♪

♪ Lie down there in the ditch ♪

- ♪ And for a pillow ♪ - ♪ The pavement ♪

- ♪ And for a roof ♪ - ♪ The sky ♪

- ♪ What about sheets? ♪ - ♪ The rain ♪

♪ Are you having nightmares, Hoffmann? ♪

♪ The first song is yours then ♪

♪ Don't make us ask again ♪

♪ The chorus leave to us ♪

[chorus] ♪ Yes, leave that to us ♪

♪ Right ♪

♪ Choose something that's gay ♪

♪ Sing the song of the rat ♪

[man] ♪ No, we're all sick of that ♪

♪ I know ♪

♪ We'll have to have The one about Kleinzach ♪

[chorus] ♪ Oh, yes, come on We'll have the song about Kleinzach ♪

♪ Right ♪

♪ Here's Kleinzach ♪

♪ Now long ago The duke of renowned Eisenach ♪

[chorus] ♪ The duke of Eisenach ♪

♪ Employed a tiny clown With the name of Kleinzach ♪

[chorus] ♪ He had the name Kleinzach ♪

♪ He wore a bus by big and black ♪

♪ And his noddle His noddle did go crick-crack ♪

♪ Crick-crack ♪

♪ Crick-crack ♪

♪ So that's, so that's Kleinzach ♪

- ♪ Crick-crack ♪ - ♪ Crick-crack ♪

- ♪ Crick-crack ♪ - ♪ Crick-crack ♪

♪ So that's ♪

♪ So that's ♪

♪ Kleinzach ♪

♪ He also had a paunch Quite as stout as a stack ♪

♪ As stout as any stack ♪

♪ His feet looked just like twigs Sticking out of a sack ♪

♪ Like twigs in any sack ♪

♪ He capered like a jumping jack ♪

♪ And his knees cracked together ♪

♪ And went click-clack ♪

♪ Click-clack ♪

♪ Click-clack ♪

♪ So that's So that's Kleinzach ♪

- ♪ Click-clack ♪ - ♪ Click-clack ♪

- ♪ Click-clack ♪ - ♪ Click-clack ♪

♪ So that's ♪

♪ So that's ♪

♪ Kleinzach ♪

[Hoffmann] ♪ Now what words What words to paint those features? ♪

[chorus] ♪ Now what words To paint those features? ♪

[Hoffmann] ♪ Now what words ♪

♪ What words to paint those features? ♪

♪ To paint those features ♪

♪ Past comparing ♪

♪ She is there ♪

♪ Fair ♪

♪ Fair as dawn of the day ♪

♪ When love first bade me dare To leave the home of my youth ♪

♪ And in my heart to swear ♪

♪ I would fly faraway ♪

♪ To a world we could share ♪

♪ Oh, her hair Oh, her hair with its curls entwining ♪

♪ Shed a warmth where the snow Of her bosom was shining ♪

♪ Her eyes, her eyes Unfathomed lakes of blue ♪

♪ Spread around where she trod ♪

♪ A reflection as true ♪

♪ And as our pageant car ♪

♪ By cupids all attended ♪

♪ Sped on with ne'er a jar ♪

♪ Her voice with triumph blended ♪

♪ While mortals held their breath ♪

♪ Sang out with heavenly art ♪

♪ While mortals held their breath ♪

♪ She sang with heavenly art ♪

♪ Till echoes melt in death ♪

♪ Resounding ♪

♪ Through ♪

♪ My heart ♪

♪ Oh, Stella ♪

♪ Three women blended as one ♪

♪ Three souls ♪

♪ United as one ♪

♪ True artist ♪

♪ Tender maiden ♪

♪ And courtesan ♪

♪ My mistress ♪

♪ No, no, rather say my three ♪

♪ Three magic visions fair to see ♪

♪ Of all my life ♪

♪ They claimed a part ♪

♪ Would you hear The three tales of my folly of love? ♪

♪ Yes, yes, yes ♪

♪ Now what do you mean Three magic visions? ♪

♪ Your pipe ♪

♪ And by the time You have to light it up again ♪

♪ You'll know why When all has been said ♪

♪ Even you, who in this tale Of my heart and its pain ♪

♪ Showed good sense And still kept your head ♪

[bell clanging]

♪ Good sirs The curtain is going to rise ♪

♪ Let it rise then ♪

♪ Let it rise then ♪

- ♪ For that we don't care a pin ♪ - ♪ No, we don't care a pin ♪

♪ Right you are ♪

♪ Now we're in our glory ♪

♪ While we drink ♪

♪ Listen to a story ♪

♪ At the clouds of our smoke we gaze ♪

♪ And see dreams in the growing haze ♪

♪ At the clouds of our smoke ♪

♪ We gaze ♪

♪ And see dreams ♪

♪ In the growing ♪

♪ Haze ♪

♪ I'll begin then ♪

♪ Begin then ♪

♪ Begin then ♪

♪ Here's the story of the first ♪

♪ Olympia was her name ♪

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[orchestra playing classical score]

♪ There, sleep in peace ♪

♪ Aha ♪

♪ Modest and sweet and clever ♪

♪ Through her I shall endeavor To recoup the whole sum at a stroke ♪

♪ That I lost when my backer went broke ♪

♪ Yes, but what of Coppelius? ♪

♪ I swear he sits up nights Thinking up ways to blackmail me ♪

♪ By filing a claim against me For inventor's rights ♪

[electricity crackling]

♪ Words fail me ♪

♪ Well, I'm glad he's not here ♪

[Spalanzani] ♪ Ah, come in ♪

♪ Sir, good day ♪

♪ An early hour to call, sir ♪

♪ Tell me, sir, you're a pupil ♪

[Hoffmann] ♪ Not worth yours kill at all, sir ♪

♪ You're too modest, I should say ♪

♪ Pay to art no more attention ♪

♪ Learn mechanical invention ♪

♪ Then a degree ♪

♪ Might come your way ♪

♪ There's my daughter to see, sir She's a heavenly sight ♪

♪ Yes, science is always right Do you hear ♪

♪ Olympia's very, very dear ♪

♪ First his science, then his daughter ♪

♪ What can be the connection? ♪

♪ Cochenille, come to me, sir ♪

♪ Go turn up all the lights ♪

♪ And the ch-cham-p-pagne? ♪

♪ Leave that to me ♪

♪ Stay here, my boy ♪

♪ I'll return to you straight ♪

♪ So be it To my fate I bid defiance ♪

♪ I will study naught but science ♪

♪ Let knowledge come in any guise ♪

♪ I must deserve ♪

♪ The one I treasure ♪

♪ In my heart I feel there's a measure ♪

♪ Of the stuff that makes men wise ♪

♪ She is there ♪

♪ if I dared ♪

♪ She's there ♪

♪ Now could I dare ♪

♪ Oh, how fair ♪

♪ How divinely ♪

♪ Fair ♪

♪ Ah, could we two together ♪

♪ Know the same tomorrow ♪

♪ The same remembered past ♪

♪ We could share every joy ♪

♪ Could share in every sorrow ♪

♪ Could share in every sorrow ♪

♪ Yes, every sorrow We could share to the last ♪

♪ May then Oh, may my dreaming ♪

♪ In you reflect the morn ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ Let clouds of glory streaming ♪

♪ Proclaim that love is born ♪

♪ Let clouds of glory streaming ♪

♪ Proclaim that love ♪

♪ ls born ♪

♪ 'Tis I, Coppelius ♪

♪ Now look out very gently ♪

♪ A man ♪

Mmm?

♪ Who can he be? ♪

♪ What's he eyeing so intently? ♪

♪ Our Olympia, eh? ♪

♪ Why not? ♪

[Nicklaus] ♪ Their Olympia, eh? ♪

♪ Young fellow, my dear sir ♪

♪ Hears not a jot ♪

♪ Dear sir ♪

♪ Dear sir ♪

♪ Yes, what? ♪

♪ Oh, Coppelius, sir, is my name ♪

♪ As a friend I Signor Spalanzani attend ♪

♪ You see all these barometers ♪

♪ And hygrometers and thermometers ♪

♪ Very cheap, but pay in cash And you'll agree you've not been rash ♪

♪ These glasses in a flash Turn all as black as a sweep ♪

♪ Or else as white as whitening ♪

♪ As white as whitening ♪

♪ Dark as night, dark as night ♪

♪ Bright as lightning ♪

♪ I've got eyes, actual eyes, alive ♪

♪ And eyes a-blazing ♪

♪ I have eyes people prize For hidden hearts are they appraising ♪

♪ And at times it maybe fall ♪

♪ A heart they can present ♪

♪ To those who've got none at all ♪

♪ I've got eyes, actual eyes, alive ♪

♪ And eyes a-blazing ♪

[crowing]

♪ I've got eyes ♪

♪ Lovely eyes ♪

♪ See ♪

♪ Would you try the heart of a woman ♪

♪ Whether kind or whether inhuman? ♪

♪ Would you rather have the knack ♪

♪ To see it white when it is black? ♪

♪ Look and you will see All you want to see ♪

♪ Try all my eyes I've eyes alive and eyes a-blazing ♪

♪ I've eyes the heart appraising ♪

♪ Try out my eyes ♪

♪ Is that true? ♪

♪ Well, try ♪

♪ Here, then ♪

[winds]

♪ That's three ducats ♪

♪ Gracious heaven ♪

♪ Power divine ♪

♪ Oh, the charms That so brightly round her shine ♪

♪ Three ducats ♪

♪ My love, can this be true? ♪

♪ For three ducats ♪

♪ Oh, but why snatch away ♪

♪ That heavenly vision Of delight and of love? ♪

♪ Oh, you ♪

♪ Dear Professor ♪

♪ Well, what? It had all been agreed ♪

- ♪ Not in writing ♪ - ♪ Still ♪

♪ No jesting ♪

♪ A fortune you will realize ♪

♪ And half will be mine ♪

♪ Must I keep on protesting? ♪

- ♪ Olympia's mine ♪ - ♪ Oh, no, she's got my eyes ♪

♪ Less loud, less loud ♪

♪ Less loud ♪

♪ Her eyes ♪

♪ Yes, he's right For I don't know how they work ♪

♪ But I'll fix it ♪

♪ Yes ♪

♪ Would you like a further 500 ducats? ♪

♪ Just sign for me that you're resigning ♪

♪ Her eyes With all the rest of her designing ♪

♪ Then I'll give you a check ♪

♪ On the house of Elias ♪

♪ Elias? ♪

♪ Splendid reputation ♪

♪ Whatever's this negotiation ♪

♪ All right ♪

♪ Agreed ♪

♪ Come on, come on ♪

♪ My friend indeed ♪

♪ I rather think it is he who will pay ♪

♪ By the way, a suggestion ♪

♪ Marry off Olympia now ♪

♪ That young fellow there, I vow ♪

♪ Very soon will pop the question ♪

[Coppelius, Spalanzani] ♪ My friend indeed ♪

[Cochenille laughs]

[Spalanzani laughs]

[Coppelius laughing]

♪ That is science, my friend ♪

♪ Lord ♪

♪ He's quite demented ♪

♪ Oh, sir, the g-guests w-wait to be presented ♪

[guests] ♪ None but our host, I do declare ♪

♪ None, I do declare ♪

♪ Entertains with such a flair ♪

♪ With such a flair ♪

♪ Wealth and good taste Combine to greet us ♪

♪ All combine to greet us ♪

♪ Sheer perfection ♪

♪ Sheer perfection through and through ♪

♪ Now, Signor Spalanzani, do ♪

♪ Now, Signor Spalanzani, do ♪

♪ Now, Signor Spalanzani, do ♪

♪ Allow your daughter to meet us ♪

♪ They do say none was made so neat ♪

♪ They do say none was made so neat ♪

♪ They do say, they do say ♪

♪ And none so faultless in their graces ♪

- ♪ We'll not be allowed ♪ - ♪ We'll not be allowed to eat ♪

♪ Till she's seen us face-to-face And shown her paces ♪

♪ None but our host, I do declare ♪

♪ None, I do declare ♪

♪ Entertains with such a flair ♪

♪ With such a flair ♪

♪ Wealth and good taste Combine to greet us ♪

♪ All combine to greet us ♪

♪ Sheer perfection ♪

♪ Sheer perfection through and through ♪

♪ Sheer perfection through and through ♪

♪ Sheer perfection through and through ♪

♪ You will not have to wait, my friends A moment more ♪

♪ At last we'll see close to The pride of all his treasure ♪

♪ That he does cherish past all measure ♪

♪ Be quiet ♪

♪ Here she comes ♪

♪ And now, ladies and gentlemen ♪

♪ Your wish I am granting ♪

♪ My daughter Olympia ♪

♪ Enchanting ♪

♪ Enchanting, enchanting ♪

♪ Enchanting ♪

♪ A lovely pair of eyes ♪

♪ Her figure is perfection ♪

♪ A wonderful complexion ♪

♪ There's nothing more to add ♪

♪ A lovely pair of eyes ♪

- ♪ Her figure is perfection ♪ - [winding]

♪ A wonderful complexion ♪

♪ In fact she isn't bad ♪

♪ Who sees her must adore her ♪

♪ And heaven bow before her ♪

♪ A great success, my dear ♪

[Nicklaus] ♪ She's really not so bad ♪

[guests] ♪ A lovely pair of eyes ♪

♪ Her figure is perfection ♪

♪ A wonderful complexion ♪

♪ There's nothing more to add ♪

♪ In fact In fact she isn't bad ♪

♪ She isn't bad ♪

♪ In fact In fact she isn't bad ♪

- ♪ She isn't bad ♪ - ♪ She isn't bad ♪

- ♪ She isn't bad ♪ - ♪ She isn't bad ♪

♪ She isn't bad ♪

♪ She is not bad ♪

♪ Not bad ♪

♪ And now, ladies and gentlemen ♪

♪ Flattered by all you say ♪

♪ And besides, eager to earn Your critical praise without delay ♪

♪ My child, keen to fall in With your slightest caprices ♪

♪ Will, if you wish ♪

♪ Parade all her technical pieces ♪

[Spalanzani] ♪ Sing a song for you all ♪

♪ And supporting her voice High soprano ♪

♪ I'll play you the guitar or piano ♪

♪ Or the harp ♪

♪ So make your choice ♪

♪ The harp, sir ♪

♪ The harp, sir ♪

♪ Very good ♪

♪ Cochenille, be quick and bring us here the harp ♪

♪ Yes, the harp my daughter sings to ♪

♪ To hear her voice ♪

♪ What joy ♪

♪ What things love finds to say ♪

♪ Come now Away with your dismay and be gay ♪

[Nicklaus] ♪ Yes, yes ♪

♪ Th-Th-Th-There ♪

♪ My friends, no more delay ♪

♪ N-No m-m-m-more delay ♪

♪ No more delay ♪

♪ No more delay ♪

♪ Birds in woodland ways ♪

♪ Are winging ♪

♪ Shines the morning star ♪

♪ Above ♪

♪ Now all maiden hearts ♪

♪ Are ringing ♪

♪ Now all maiden hearts ♪

♪ Are ringing ♪

♪ With love ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ For all are in love ♪

[vocalizing]

[Olympia] ♪ Now that is the song ♪

♪ To be singing ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ And that is my song of love ♪

♪ My song of love ♪

[vocalizing]

[Olympia's voice winds down, stops]

[winding]

- ♪ Now that is the song to be singing ♪ - [chorus] ♪ That's the song ♪

- [vocalizing] - ♪ She's always singing ♪

- ♪ And that is my song of love ♪ - ♪ That's her song ♪

- ♪ Her song of love ♪ - ♪ My song of love ♪

- ♪ That is her song ♪ - ♪ That is her song ♪

- ♪ That is her song ♪ - ♪ Of love ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ New delights can love ♪

♪ Discover ♪

♪ Joyous lark ♪

♪ Or sighing dove ♪

♪ Broken hearts ♪

♪ Can soon recover ♪

♪ Broken hearts ♪

♪ Can soon recover ♪

♪ With love ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ For all are in love ♪

[vocalizing high-pitched note]

♪ Now that is the song for ♪

♪ A lover ♪

♪ And that is my song of love ♪

♪ My song of love ♪

[vocalizing]

[vocalizing continues]

[Olympia's voice winding down]

- [winding] - [gears clicking]

- ♪ Now that is the song for a lover ♪ - [chorus] ♪ That's the song ♪

♪ She's always singing ♪

- ♪ And that is my song of love ♪ - ♪ That's her song ♪

- ♪ Her song of love ♪ - ♪ My song of love ♪

- ♪ That is her song ♪ - ♪ That is her song ♪

- ♪ That is her song ♪ - ♪ Of love ♪

[vocalizing high-pitched notes]

[vocalizing continues]

[orchestra concludes playing]

♪ Her reputation's well deserved ♪

♪ Oh, what scales ♪

♪ What scales ♪

♪ Now will you all look for your places ♪

♪ For the supper now is served ♪

[guests] ♪ Supper at last Supper at last ♪

♪ Supper at last That is grand ♪

♪ Unless you expected a dance before ♪

♪ No, no, the supper must be respected ♪

♪ And then strike up the band Strike up the band ♪

♪ It's just as I planned ♪

♪ Will you allow me? ♪

♪ After she has rested She'll give you a dance ♪

♪ Yes, yes ♪

♪ There you are, she'll obey ♪

♪ Would you mind if now I suggest ♪

♪ That you should stay in here with her While we're away? ♪

♪ It's an honor ♪

♪ Now we'll see what he will find to say ♪

[Spalanzani chuckles]

♪ She's not eating today ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ Food she finds too coarse to mention ♪

♪ What's that? ♪

♪ That ♪

♪ Pure invention ♪

♪ Yes, my boy ♪

♪ Pure invention ♪

♪ S-S-S-Supper is served ♪

[guests] ♪ Supper at last is served ♪

♪ Now it's served ♪

♪ None but our host, I do declare ♪

♪ None, I do declare ♪

♪ Entertains with such a flair ♪

♪ With such a flair ♪

♪ None but our host, I do declare ♪

♪ None, I do declare ♪

♪ Entertains with such a flair ♪

♪ So now they've gone away at last ♪

♪ And you are near me ♪

♪ Quite, quite alone ♪

♪ Oh, may I hope that you will hear me ♪

♪ Olympia, oh, my love ♪

♪ Let me gaze for a while ♪

♪ And dazzled by your charms ♪

♪ Let me bask in yours mile ♪

♪ Yes ♪

♪ Yes ♪

♪ Did I hear a sigh Escape your lips so tender? ♪

♪ Or was it but a dream My fever does engender? ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ Gentle sigh A pledge of love begun ♪

♪ You now are mine ♪

♪ Our hearts for evermore ♪

♪ Are one ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ Can you feel, my love ♪

♪ That joy ever springing ♪

♪ From a heart's silent replies? ♪

♪ Two souls ♪

♪ One in their scheming ♪

♪ With a sweep they are winging ♪

♪ Till we ascend the skies ♪

♪ May then ♪

♪ Oh, may my dreaming ♪

♪ In you reflect the morn ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ May clouds of glory streaming ♪

♪ Proclaim that love is born ♪

♪ May clouds of glory streaming ♪

♪ Proclaim that love ♪

♪ ls born ♪

♪ Oh, my dear, do but stay ♪

♪ Why must you leave me so? ♪

♪ Tell me, why turn away? ♪

♪ Then I'll go where you go ♪

♪ Oh, good Lord Don't get so excited ♪

♪ Come on now and have a good feed ♪

♪ Oh, Nicklaus, my love is requited ♪

♪ My love ♪

♪ Love divine ♪

♪ Oh, indeed ♪

♪ If you knew what against her was cited ♪

♪ What can be cited? ♪

- ♪ What? ♪ - ♪ That she's a dead thing ♪

- ♪ Great heavens ♪ - ♪ Or never was alive ♪

♪ Oh, Nicklaus, my love is requited ♪

♪ My love ♪

♪ Love divine ♪

♪ The cheat, the rogue ♪

♪ It's ruination ♪

♪ Elias can't meet his obligation ♪

♪ So, then all in good time ♪

♪ I shall find out the way To be revenged ♪

♪ I'm fleeced ♪

♪ I'm fleeced ♪

♪ Me ♪

♪ I'll make someone ♪

♪ Pay ♪

[orchestra playing lively introduction]

[orchestra continues playing lively waltz]

[winding]

[Spalanzani] ♪ Let the dancing proceed ♪

♪ The opening ♪

♪ They're repeating ♪

♪ How the waltz Sets our hearts a-beating ♪

♪ Let the gentleman lead you so ♪

♪ Now go ♪

[Olympia] ♪ Yes ♪

♪ Yes ♪

[chorus] ♪ Now she's dancing ♪

♪ How entrancing ♪

♪ Never could art such grace impart ♪

♪ Smiling, smiling ♪

♪ How beguiling ♪

♪ Light as the air ♪

♪ Nowhere, now there ♪

♪ Now she's dancing ♪

♪ How entrancing ♪

♪ Never could art such grace impart ♪

♪ Smiling, smiling ♪

♪ How beguiling ♪

♪ Light as the air ♪

♪ Nowhere, now there ♪

♪ Olympia, no ♪

♪ Someone detain her ♪

♪ Someone detain her ♪

[chorus] ♪ Why should we be expected to go? ♪

[Nicklaus] ♪ He's in trouble now What could be plainer? ♪

♪ Now what the devil? ♪

[chorus] ♪ There they go ♪

[Spalanzani] ♪ Now go slow ♪

- [Spalanzani sighs] - [gears clicking]

♪ That's right ♪

♪ No more, no more, dear daughter ♪

[vocalizing]

[Spalanzani] ♪ You've had enough today ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ No more, no more, dear daughter ♪

♪ Go and escort her Back where you know ♪

[gears squeaking]

♪ S-S-So then ♪

♪ S-So then ♪

♪ So ♪

[Olympia] ♪ No ♪

[vocalizing]

[guests] ♪ What do you think they're saying? ♪

♪ Such compliments we're paying ♪

♪ There's nothing more to add ♪

♪ She's not too bad ♪

♪ She's not too bad ♪

[vocalizing high-pitched notes]

♪ No, she's not too bad ♪

♪ She's not too bad ♪

- ♪ Is he dead? ♪ - ♪ No ♪

♪ In falling Only his glasses came to grief ♪

♪ He revives, what relief ♪

[guests] ♪ Truly appalling ♪

♪ He revives, what relief ♪

- ♪ Truly appalling ♪ - ♪ Truly appalling ♪

[cries out]

- ♪ What? ♪ - ♪ The spectacle maker-there ♪

♪ Merciful gods Olympia, beware ♪

♪ Olympia, beware ♪

♪ Oh, heavens Now she has crashed ♪

[gears clicking]

♪ She's crashed ♪

[laughs]

♪ Yes, she is smashed ♪

[shrieks]

♪ You fright ♪

♪ You swine ♪

♪ You fool ♪

♪ Fox ♪

[shrieks]

♪ Fanatic ♪

♪ It's automatic ♪

♪ It's automatic ♪

[chorus] ♪ Ha, ha, ha It's too dramatic ♪

♪ His beloved's automatic ♪

♪ How too dramatic His beloved's automatic ♪

♪ His beloved's automatic ♪

[shrieks]

- ♪ You cheat ♪ - ♪ You fiend ♪

♪ You cheat ♪

[chorus] ♪ She's automatic ♪

[orchestra concludes playing]

[orchestra playing introduction]

♪ Moon of love ♪

♪ O tender moon ♪

♪ Smile down on our caresses ♪

♪ Fools demand of day a boon ♪

♪ O lovely, tender moon ♪

♪ Memory fades and all too soon ♪

♪ No past delight confesses ♪

♪ Sad with shame our years are strewn ♪

♪ For memory fades too soon ♪

♪ The breeze all ♪

♪ The breeze all afire ♪

♪ Warms the kiss that it presses ♪

- ♪ The breeze all afire ♪ - ♪ It warms the kiss it presses ♪

♪ Leaves a kiss of desire ♪

♪ Warms the kiss ♪

♪ Our desire ♪

♪ Warms the kiss ♪

♪ Our desire ♪

[Giulietta, chorus vocalizing]

[chorus] ♪ Moon of love ♪

♪ O tender moon ♪

♪ Smile down on our caresses ♪

♪ Fools demand of day a boon ♪

♪ O lovely, tender moon ♪

♪ Lovely, tender moon ♪

♪ Smiling on our caresses ♪

- ♪ Tender moon ♪ - ♪ O moon of love ♪

♪ O tender moon ♪

[vocalizing continues]

[song concludes]

♪ For me a love like that I swear can never fire me ♪

[orchestra resumes playing]

♪ Enraptured by her charms For love of whom we die ♪

♪ In our bliss what need to sigh ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ A laugh in the heart ♪

♪ Has a song to inspire me ♪

♪ Has a song to inspire me ♪

♪ A love full of worry and care Beware ♪

[chorus] ♪ Beware ♪

♪ A love that is merry and bright Delight ♪

[chorus] ♪ Delight ♪

[Hoffmann] ♪ When passion's blazing fire In your heart is burning ♪

♪ The fever of desire Will in flame its yearning ♪

♪ Yet love they say ♪

♪ Will die away ♪

♪ Will die away ♪

♪ Will die away ♪

♪ Oh, have done with dreary dying ♪

♪ For two bright eyes ♪

♪ For we all cares defying ♪

♪ Despise all ties ♪

♪ No sense in sighing if you're wise ♪

[vocalizing]

[chorus] ♪ Have done with dreary dying ♪

♪ For two bright eyes ♪

♪ For we all cares defying ♪

♪ Despise all ties ♪

♪ No sense in sighing ♪

♪ When you're wise ♪

[song ends]

[orchestra resumes playing]

♪ I see A celebration ♪

♪ How delightful, milady ♪

♪ Schlemil ♪

♪ Well, I did cry for you Three whole days ♪

- ♪ Did you ♪ - ♪ Runt ♪

- ♪ Look here ♪ - ♪ No, not now ♪

♪ Do you see we've a poet From abroad here today? ♪

♪ Hoffmann ♪

- ♪ Too charmed ♪ - ♪ Too charmed ♪

♪ Oh, what a gloomy face ♪

♪ Will you all find a place For a game of faro ♪

[chorus] ♪ Bravo Let's have a game ♪

♪ What insolence ♪

[Giulietta] ♪ Come on Come on, my friends ♪

[chorus] ♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪

♪ A word ♪

♪ I've two horses ready saddled ♪

♪ But no sweethearting ♪

♪ Once your daydreams begin Then, Hoffmann, we're departing ♪

[Hoffmann] ♪ And what daydreams indeed ♪

♪ Do you think one could trace ♪

♪ In such a worldly place ♪

♪ Can one love one in her station? ♪

♪ That Schlemil says he does ♪

[Hoffmann] ♪ He's not the same as I ♪

[Nicklaus] ♪ You be careful The devil's very quick ♪

[Hoffmann] ♪ He can try ♪

♪ if I fall in love with her ♪

♪ Then I shall deserve damnation ♪

- ♪ Come on ♪ - ♪ Come on ♪

♪ So gleam ♪

♪ With desire ♪

♪ Keen diamond The sunlight reflecting ♪

♪ So gleam ♪

♪ With desire ♪

♪ With splendor steal her heart ♪

♪ As the moths fly round a candle ♪

♪ Woman does crave your fire ♪

♪ Though 'tis death to admire ♪

♪ They're but staking their being ♪

♪ But she forswears her soul ♪

♪ They're but staking ♪

♪ Their being ♪

♪ But she ♪

♪ Forswears ♪

♪ Her soul ♪

[vocalizing]

[Dappertutto] ♪ So gleam ♪

♪ With desire ♪

♪ Keen diamond The sunlight reflecting ♪

♪ So gleam ♪

♪ With desire ♪

♪ And steal her heart ♪

♪ And steal ♪

♪ Her heart ♪

♪ Yes, steal her heart ♪

♪ Diamond afire ♪

♪ Now steal her heart ♪

♪ Diamond afire ♪

♪ Now gleam ♪

♪ And steal ♪

♪ Her ♪

♪ Heart ♪

[Dappertutto] ♪ Fair angel ♪

♪ What must I do to merit such a prize? ♪

♪ This you've already shown ♪

♪ You allure the hearts of men ♪

♪ In guile you are so wise ♪

♪ That through you I now do own ♪

♪ The shadow of Schlemil ♪

♪ I require new delights ♪

♪ And I ask will you get me ♪

♪ Hoffmann's reflection today? ♪

♪ Yes, his reflection ♪

♪ Do you doubt the potent strength ♪

♪ Of those eyes ♪

♪ That poet's dream Above desire may rise ♪

♪ Why, yes, indeed While I chanced to be about ♪

♪ At you he sneered ♪

♪ At you he sneered ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ Then I'll make Hoffmann dance ♪

[Dappertutto] ♪ Here he is ♪

♪ Here he is ♪

♪ You're leaving me so ♪

♪ No more to lose ♪

♪ What, even you? ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ So you mean to insult me ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ So you mean to insult me ♪

♪ No regrets and no thanks ♪

♪ Well, go Yes, go ♪

♪ And leave you to your sorrow? ♪

♪ No, I love you ♪

♪ Though I should die tomorrow ♪

♪ Are you mad? ♪

♪ And have you got no qualms ♪

♪ That with your life any moment Any hour, you may pay ♪

♪ And that my love will lose you Evermore if you stay ♪

♪ And that Schlemil May strike you dead in my arms? ♪

♪ You cannot refuse my prayer ♪

♪ My life is all yours, I swear ♪

♪ Ah, go ♪

♪ And soon I'll be with you ♪

♪ And then no more ♪

♪ Alarms ♪

♪ O heaven ♪

♪ A joy divine ♪

♪ illumines all around me ♪

♪ Like music from the spheres ♪

♪ Your voice has pierced my heart ♪

♪ A fervent eager flame ♪

♪ Consumes my every part ♪

♪ Your glances kindle mine ♪

♪ And tongues of fire ♪

♪ Surround me ♪

♪ They burn as the stars in the skies ♪

♪ And I feel with my love ablaze ♪

♪ The breath of your passion that plays ♪

♪ On my mouth ♪

♪ And on my eyes ♪

♪ The breath of your passion ♪

♪ Of your passion that plays ♪

♪ On my mouth ♪

♪ On my mouth ♪

♪ And on ♪

♪ My eyes ♪

♪ O heaven ♪

♪ A joy divine ♪

♪ illumines all around me ♪

♪ Your glances kindle mine ♪

♪ And tongues of fire ♪

♪ And ♪

♪ Tongues of fire ♪

♪ Surround ♪

♪ Me ♪

♪ Your eyes ♪

♪ Your face ♪

♪ This reflection close to mine ♪

♪ It is for that I pray ♪

♪ What? ♪

♪ My reflection? ♪

♪ What do you mean? ♪

♪ This ♪

♪ When it is wiped away ♪

♪ And when the glass is clean ♪

♪ Unimpaired ♪

♪ Straight away in my heart ♪

♪ It shall stay ♪

- ♪ In your heart ♪ - ♪ In my heart ♪

♪ 'Tis I 'Tis I for this am pleading ♪

♪ All else do I abjure ♪

- ♪ You are sure? ♪ - ♪ I am sure ♪

♪ Whether heedless or heeding I am yours, I'm sure ♪

[both vocalizing]

[both] ♪ Though the night ♪

♪ Though the night be dying ♪

♪ May the day The day endure ♪

♪ Though the night Though the night be dying ♪

♪ May the day endure ♪

[both vocalizing]

♪ Though the night be dying ♪

♪ May the day endure ♪

♪ May the day ♪

♪ Endure ♪

[song ends]

[orchestra resumes playing]

[Giulietta] ♪ Schlemil ♪

[Schlemil] ♪ Just as I thought ♪

Hmph.

♪ Together ♪

♪ You see, my friends You see ♪

♪ indeed I rather wonder whether ♪

♪ We should greet a new devotee ♪

[laughs]

♪ Why, sir ♪

♪ Don't answer ♪

♪ He's got my key ♪

♪ I love you ♪

♪ Let us kill him ♪

♪ No, not now ♪

♪ You're looking very pale, sir ♪

♪ I? ♪

♪ Well, look for yourself ♪

♪ Heavens ♪

♪ What? ♪

♪ My reflection ♪

♪ I have lost my reflection ♪

- ♪ My reflection ♪ - ♪ She may know ♪

[chorus laughs] ♪ Look at his dismay ♪

♪ Oh, come, let's get away ♪

♪ Or you have lost your soul ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ I love her ♪

♪ I love her ♪

♪ Let me go ♪

♪ Alas ♪

♪ My soul again outpouring ♪

♪ My burning passion ♪

♪ Brooks no delay ♪

♪ A curse on love ♪

♪ All faults ignoring ♪

♪ For my reason still ♪

♪ Says me nay ♪

- ♪ if she smiles ♪ - ♪ Oh, my friend ♪

- ♪ All desire is soaring ♪ - ♪ Your soul outpouring ♪

- ♪ Yet my shame ♪ - ♪ All in vain ♪

- ♪ Would tear me away ♪ - ♪ Brooks no delay ♪

♪ I may hate ♪

♪ Yet still I'm ♪

♪ Adoring ♪

♪ Though death were mine ♪

♪ From her a kiss I pray ♪

[Giulietta] ♪ My dearest friend ♪

- ♪ 'Tis you I'm adoring ♪ - ♪ My soul outpouring ♪

- ♪ I ne'er refuse what comes my way ♪ - ♪ My passion brooks no stay ♪

- ♪ Accursed love all faults ignoring ♪ - ♪ This diamond ♪

♪ Sets all hearts a-soaring ♪

- ♪ When passion burns, it brooks no stay ♪ - ♪ What does it cost ♪

- ♪ So how can you say me nay ♪ - ♪ A kiss to pay? ♪

- ♪ 'Tis you, my friend ♪ - ♪ Though I hate ♪

- ♪ I'm adoring ♪ - ♪ I'm adoring ♪

[Giulietta, chorus] ♪ I ne'er refuse what comes my way ♪

♪ If it demand a kiss to pay ♪

♪ All who admire ♪

♪ I'm adoring ♪

♪ All who admire ♪

♪ I'm adoring ♪

♪ My friends am I imploring ♪

♪ To bear you faraway ♪

[Giulietta, chorus vocalizing]

♪ Away ♪

♪ Away ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ Do you hear, my friends ♪

♪ The music is playing ♪

♪ Gondolas gently swaying ♪

♪ And so the evening ends ♪

[chorus vocalizing]

♪ Moon of love ♪

♪ O tender moon ♪

♪ Smile down on our caresses ♪

♪ Fools demand of day a boon ♪

♪ O lovely, tender moon ♪

♪ Lovely, tender moon ♪

♪ Smile upon our caresses ♪

♪ Tender moon ♪

♪ O moon of love ♪

- ♪ O tender moon ♪ - ♪ O moon ♪

[chorus continues vocalizing]

[song ends]

[orchestral fanfare playing]

♪ All in vain ♪

♪ Dead leaves are falling ♪

♪ How cruel, yet how sweet ♪

♪ Our last farewell recalling ♪

♪ I seem to see him still ♪

♪ He is here ♪

♪ He is mine ♪

♪ Even now I see him still ♪

♪ He is mine ♪

♪ He is here ♪

♪ He is mine ♪

♪ All in vain ♪

♪ Dead leaves are falling ♪

♪ All in vain ♪

♪ Heart of mine ♪

♪ In my dreams ♪

♪ Fond hours recalling ♪

♪ Thou dost ask for a sign ♪

♪ Fond lover stay ♪

♪ My voice is calling ♪

♪ To say that my love is thine ♪

♪ Know that my love ♪

♪ ls thine ♪

♪ Know that my love ♪

♪ ls thine ♪

♪ All in vain ♪

♪ Dead leaves are falling ♪

♪ All in vain ♪

♪ All in vain ♪

♪ Heart ♪

♪ Of mine ♪

♪ Oh, my darling child ♪

♪ So I find you singing ♪

♪ Now, did you not swear ♪

♪ That that you'd not do? ♪

♪ I thought my mother's voice ♪

♪ In my voice was ringing ♪

♪ I feel ♪

♪ When I sing ♪

♪ That she's singing too ♪

♪ Yes, there lies my fear ♪

♪ Your mother before you ♪

♪ Sounded just the same ♪

♪ Regrets are in vain ♪

♪ It's her voice I hear ♪

♪ No, no ♪

♪ I implore you ♪

♪ So then Antonia ♪

♪ Will never sing ♪

♪ Again ♪

♪ No more hope ♪

♪ Even now once more ♪

♪ Did I see those patches of fire Flaming up on her cheeks ♪

♪ O God ♪

♪ Must I lose the child ♪

♪ I adore? ♪

♪ That poet Hoffmann Spawned in her heart ♪

♪ His intoxicating passion ♪

♪ I pray he'll not follow us here ♪

♪ Franz, we are not at home to callers ♪

♪ I'll go and see ♪

- ♪ What do you want? ♪ - ♪ Antonia ♪

♪ I'll go and call her ♪

♪ You told me to just now ♪

♪ I said we are not at home to callers ♪

♪ No callers ♪

♪ Did you hear me then? ♪

♪ Dare I say, sir ♪

♪ I am not deaf ♪

♪ Good ♪

♪ And you can go to hell, sir ♪

♪ Yes, of course I'll answer the bell, sir ♪

♪ You block headed, double-dyed ass ♪

♪ I quite agree ♪

[Crespel] ♪ Ye gods ♪

♪ There you are ♪

♪ Always in a passion ♪

♪ Eccentric, all whims ♪

♪ In a daze ♪

♪ Still, I do my best ♪

♪ In a fashion ♪

♪ Because he pays ♪

♪ Day and night ♪

♪ I am always slaving ♪

♪ But argue back ♪

♪ I'd never dare ♪

♪ 'Twould be like talking ♪

♪ To the air ♪

♪ Although a lot ♪

♪ I'd like to air ♪

♪ Then I could change ♪

♪ The way he is behaving ♪

♪ Give him the air ♪

♪ Right away ♪

♪ But my airs he keeps restraining ♪

Hmph.

♪ Tra-la-la-la La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la ♪

♪ It is not my voice, I say ♪

♪ Tra-la-la-la La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la ♪

♪ That dost foil my airs this way ♪

♪ Tra, la-la-la-la ♪

♪ La-la-la-la ♪

♪ La-la-la-la, la-la, la-la-la ♪

♪ La ♪

♪ No, it's lack of training ♪

♪ It's lack of training ♪

♪ It's lack of training ♪

♪ Lack of training ♪

♪ Tra-la-la, la-la La-la-la-la-la ♪

♪ Tra-la-la, la-la, la-la-la-la-la ♪

♪ Tra-la-la, la-la-la ♪

♪ La-la ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ Franz, so they're here ♪

♪ Get up, my friend ♪

♪ Eh, who is that? ♪

♪ Why, it's Hoffmann ♪

♪ Himself ♪

♪ And now where is Antonia? ♪

♪ Oh, sir, he's not at home ♪

[laughs]

♪ Deafer I find since a year ago ♪

♪ You are too kind, sir ♪

♪ Yes, thanks to heaven I am quite well ♪

♪ I said Antonia ♪

♪ Go tell her I'm here ♪

♪ I'll call Master Crespel ♪

♪ Oh, how glad he'll be ♪

♪ Sweet is the song lovers learn ♪

♪ From the hours of sun or showers ♪

♪ Sweet the hours of sun or showers ♪

♪ My love ♪

♪ Antonia ♪

♪ I knew within my heart A love like yours ♪

♪ Would never, never fail me ♪

♪ My heart has told me too ♪

♪ Your tears were shed for me ♪

♪ My heart then told me too ♪

♪ Your tears were shed for me ♪

- ♪ So, a farewell to sorrow ♪ - ♪ So, a farewell to sorrow ♪

- ♪ For yours will I be tomorrow ♪ - ♪For mine will you be tomorrow ♪

♪ Fly happy hours ♪

- ♪ Days to come all are ours ♪ - ♪ Days to come all are ours ♪

♪ All are ours Days to come ♪

[both vocalizing]

♪ Days to come Days to come ♪

♪ All are ours ♪

♪ All ours ♪

♪ Days to come all are ours ♪

♪ All ours ♪

♪ And yet, beloved, if I may ♪

♪ There is something I must say ♪

♪ That torments me ♪

♪ Through and through ♪

♪ When your music I hear ♪

♪ My jealousy keeps growing ♪

♪ You love it too much ♪

♪ Oh, what a curious fear You are showing ♪

♪ Do I love you because of music ♪

♪ Or music because of you ♪

♪ For you would never fear To hear me singing ♪

♪ As my father fears ♪

♪ What do you say? ♪

♪ Yes, my father has even ♪

♪ Forbidden me this room ♪

♪ That I love so ♪

♪ But will you hear me? ♪

♪ But how strange ♪

♪ What can he mean? ♪

♪ Then come, as long ago ♪

♪ Yes, come and hear me ♪

♪ And you can say if I can sing or no ♪

♪ if I can sing ♪

♪ Or ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ How your eyes are shining ♪

♪ And how your hand is trembling ♪

♪ Look, here's the song we loved ♪

♪ Often we sang it together ♪

♪ It's the song we loved ♪

♪ Often we sang it together ♪

♪ Together ♪

♪ Sweet is the song lovers learn ♪

♪ From the hours of sun or showers ♪

♪ Sweet the hours of sun or showers ♪

♪ Turn by turn ♪

♪ Sweet is the song lovers learn ♪

♪ From the hours of sun ♪

♪ Or showers ♪

♪ How sweet is the song we learn ♪

♪ How sweet ♪

♪ The song of love ♪

♪ The rose all her glory The summer will lend ♪

♪ But when is the end of her story told? ♪

♪ But when the end of her story? ♪

♪ Of her story? ♪

- ♪ Sweet is the song lovers learn ♪ - [Antonia vocalizing]

♪ From the hours of sun ♪

♪ Of sun or showers ♪

♪ Sweet the hours of sun or showers ♪

♪ Turn by turn ♪

♪ Sweet is the song lovers learn ♪

♪ From the hours of sun ♪

♪ Or showers ♪

♪ How sweet is the song we learn ♪

♪ How sweet is the song ♪

♪ Of ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Are you ill? ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ Listen ♪

♪ Heavens, it's my father ♪

♪ Come ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ I shall never rest till this be clear ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ I thought that Hoffmann was in here ♪

♪ Wish he were at the devil ♪

♪ Many thanks ♪

- ♪ Oh, sir ♪ - ♪ What? ♪

♪ Dr. Miracle is here ♪

♪ Idiot and scoundrel ♪

♪ Quickly shut all the doors ♪

♪ That is so It's the doctor ♪

♪ He? He a doctor? ♪

♪ Not on your life ♪

♪ He never cures But he destroys ♪

♪ And now he'd kill my child ♪

♪ As he killed my wife ♪

♪ I hear the sound of his bottles As they clink in the air ♪

♪ Far from here may we keep him ♪

[Dr. Miracle laughs]

♪ He's there ♪

♪ Well, well, it's myself ♪

♪ I am here, friend ♪

♪ Master Crespel at home? ♪

♪ He's my dear friend ♪

♪ Where can he be? ♪

- ♪ No, no ♪ - [laughs]

♪ I was just looking for Antonia ♪

♪ Well, this illness her poor mother Did leave her ♪

♪ Going all right ♪

♪ She's a dear child ♪

♪ We'll soon get her well Now take me to see her ♪

♪ You'd kill her tonight ♪

♪ If you move a step ♪

♪ Then that moment you will be lost ♪

♪ There, there, be calm ♪

♪ I have no desire to grieve you ♪

♪ Why do that? ♪

♪ Impostor ♪

[Crespel] ♪ Well, say on then ♪

♪ And be brief ♪

- ♪ Would you sit in this chair? ♪ - ♪ I'm sitting here ♪

♪ How old are you, if you please? ♪

- ♪ Who, me? ♪ - ♪ It is your daughter I mean ♪

♪ Antonia ♪

♪ Your age ♪

♪ Now reply, if you please ♪

♪ Only 20 ♪

♪ Why, the springtime of life ♪

♪ Let's see ♪

♪ Let's see your hand ♪

♪ Her hand? ♪

♪ Hush, let me take her pulse ♪

♪ God Is this but a wanton dream? ♪

♪ Is it illusion? ♪

♪ The beat's very uneven and quick ♪

♪ A sad conclusion ♪

♪ Then sing ♪

♪ No, no, no more ♪

♪ You shall not make her sing ♪

♪ Sing away ♪

[Antonia vocalizing]

[Dr. Miracle] ♪ Look, her cheeks are aglow ♪

♪ Her eyes aflame ♪

♪ And she presses her hand to her heart As it beats ♪

♪ What's he say? ♪

♪ It would be a shame ♪

♪ It would indeed ♪

♪ If we should leave to death ♪

♪ So fair a prey to claim ♪

♪ No more, no more ♪

♪ If you would care To trust what I contrive ♪

♪ If you would care, she could survive ♪

♪ Now see some bottles here ♪

♪ Which I keep in reserve ♪

[Crespel] ♪ No more ♪

[Dr. Miracle] ♪ These should provide ♪

[Crespel] ♪ No more ♪

♪ The Lord preserve me From your vile consultations ♪

♪ You torture and slay ♪

[Dr. Miracle] ♪ These should provide One dose each day ♪

♪ One dose each day ♪

♪ I hear you Come this way ♪

♪ Quickly then, no delay ♪

♪ On my help now relying May all your heart complying ♪

- [Hoffmann] ♪ Love of my life ♪ - ♪ Be gay ♪

♪ Why stay ♪

- ♪ Love of my life ♪ - ♪ Be gay ♪

♪ Away ♪

- ♪ Now all my fears are dying ♪ - ♪ Now with death ♪

- ♪ I hear you, come this way ♪ - ♪ Let him pay ♪

- ♪ And all my tears ♪ - ♪ Quickly then, no delay ♪

- ♪ I'll save you come what may ♪ - ♪ All my tears replying ♪

- ♪ No delay ♪ - ♪ Why stay, away ♪

- ♪ From his spite all-defying ♪ - ♪ Why stay, away ♪

- ♪ Your throats are vain and lying ♪ - ♪ May your heart now be gay ♪

♪ Away ♪

- ♪ Away ♪ - ♪ No delay, now be gay ♪

- ♪ May all your heart complying ♪ - ♪ So all my tears replying ♪

- ♪ Why stay ♪ - ♪ Be gay ♪

- ♪ Why stay ♪ - ♪ Away ♪

- ♪ I will provide one dose each day ♪ - ♪ Away, away ♪

- ♪ Away ♪ - ♪ I will provide one dose each day ♪

♪ No more to sing ♪

♪ Alas ♪

♪ But how can I persuade her ♪

♪ This sacrifice to make ♪

♪ And now, my father What did he say? ♪

♪ I cannot tell you now ♪

♪ But later you shall know ♪

♪ On a new road must we go ♪

♪ My bride that is to be ♪

♪ If I'm to guide you ♪

♪ Forget you've heard a story ♪

♪ Of brilliant days to come ♪

♪ Of success and of glory ♪

♪ Then with ♪

♪ All your heart ♪

♪ Trust in me ♪

♪ And if I do ♪

♪ Our love more brightly yet appearing ♪

♪ Will bind me to your heart ♪

♪ Content and never fearing ♪

♪ Never ♪

♪ Fearing ♪

♪ Then come ♪

♪ I shall obey ♪

♪ Ah, can it ever be ♪

♪ That I shall fully know ♪

♪ All you've sacrificed for me ♪

♪ Your father ♪

♪ Will soon return ♪

♪ So I leave you for today ♪

♪ For today ♪

♪ indeed, it's plain to see ♪

♪ My father's won him over ♪

♪ Ah, well ♪

♪ My tears are all in vain ♪

♪ For I have sworn ♪

♪ I'll never sing again ♪

♪ You'll never sing again ♪

♪ And have you thought it over? ♪

♪ The sacrifice demanded ♪

♪ The youth that you will lose ♪

♪ Your beauty and your charms ♪

♪ And your art to refuse ♪

♪ All these gifts come from heaven ♪

♪ In trust for you to share ♪

♪ And should they be entombed ♪

♪ In the gloom of daily care? ♪

♪ Or have you never heard ♪

♪ When you have dreamed of praise ♪

♪ Like all the forest leaves ♪

♪ That the wind is caressing ♪

♪ That soothing trembling roar ♪

♪ Of the crowd round you pressing ♪

♪ As they murmur your name ♪

♪ And hold you with their gaze? ♪

♪ See there the burning joys ♪

♪ Before the feet of beauty ♪

♪ And these your youth in flower ♪

♪ ls ready to abjure ♪

♪ How commonplace the toys ♪

♪ They'd force you to endure ♪

♪ And children swarming round ♪

♪ To call you back to duty ♪

♪ Ah, what can be that voice That so disturbs my heart? ♪

♪ Are those the words of hell ♪

♪ Or does God take my part? ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ No ♪

♪ No, it is false that delights That excites me ♪

♪ Against ambitious pride ls my love armed to fight ♪

♪ For fame cannot rival The calm that invites me ♪

♪ To the home of my heart's ♪

♪ Delight ♪

♪ What kind of love ♪

♪ From such a lover? ♪

♪ For Hoffmann's made you the victim ♪

♪ To excite his brutal desire ♪

♪ Only your beauty feeds his fire ♪

♪ And for him as all discover ♪

♪ The time soon will come When his passion will expire ♪

♪ No, tempt me not again ♪

♪ Away, I say ♪

♪ You shall no more be heard ♪

♪ I have sworn I am his ♪

♪ I know for me he'll stay ♪

♪ I am not my own mistress ♪

♪ And cannot break my word ♪

♪ And just a while ago ♪

♪ By his heart I adore ♪

♪ His everlasting love ♪

♪ So tenderly he swore ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ Who can save my soul from the fiend ♪

♪ From my own self? ♪

♪ My mother ♪

♪ O dear Mother ♪

♪ I love him ♪

♪ I love ♪

♪ Him ♪

♪ Your mother ♪

♪ You dare invoke her soul ♪

♪ Your mother ♪

♪ Now remember well ♪

♪ That 'tis her voice Speaks through mine ♪

♪ Ungrateful ♪

♪ She would tell of the fame of her name ♪

♪ That you'd gladly for ego ♪

♪ So listen ♪

[mother] ♪ Antonia mine ♪

[Antonia] ♪ Heavens ♪

♪ Just listen ♪

[mother] ♪ Antonia mine ♪

♪ So listen ♪

[Antonia] ♪ O God ♪

♪ My mother ♪

♪ My mother ♪

[mother] ♪ Child of mine ♪

♪ Hear me calling ♪

♪ So now rejoice ♪

♪ 'Tis thy mother who's calling ♪

♪ Hear her voice ♪

♪ Child of mine, hear me calling ♪

♪ So now rejoice ♪

♪ 'Tis thy mother who's calling ♪

♪ Let thy heart rejoice ♪

♪ 'Tis my mother who's calling ♪

♪ Her spirit is calling ♪

♪ Hers, the voice in your ear ♪

♪ A wiser voice than any other ♪

♪ Bequeathing you a skill divine ♪

♪ Which all the world longs to hear ♪

- [mother] ♪ Antonia mine ♪ - ♪ So listen ♪

- ♪ Now listen ♪ - ♪ Antonia mine ♪

♪ Now again life's returning ♪

♪ And again her cheeks aflame ♪

♪ With wild bravos are burning ♪

- ♪ Antonia mine ♪ - ♪ My mother, my mother ♪

♪ Sing with her though tears are falling ♪

♪ Her spirit is calling ls calling ♪

- ♪ Sing together, now sing ♪ - ♪ Antonia mine ♪

- ♪ My mother ♪ - ♪ Though your tears are falling ♪

- ♪ My mother ♪ - ♪ Sing with her ♪

♪ Though tears are falling ♪

- [mother] ♪ Child of mine ♪ - ♪ Yes, her spirit is calling ♪

- ♪ Hear me calling ♪ - ♪ So now rejoice ♪

- ♪ So now rejoice ♪ - ♪ 'Tis your mother who's calling ♪

[Antonia] ♪ Yes, I hear her voice ♪

♪ Oh, hear her voice This is her voice ♪

- ♪ Yes, her spirit is calling ♪ - ♪ Child of mine, hear me calling ♪

- ♪ So now rejoice, this is her voice ♪ - ♪ Ah, my mother ♪

- ♪ This is my voice ♪ - ♪ This is her voice, this is her voice ♪

♪ No, but stay I am fainting ♪

- ♪ Grant a rest, I do pray ♪ - ♪ No fast and faster ♪

- ♪ All afire, all afire ♪ - ♪ Still faster ♪

- ♪ My frenzy I ne'er master ♪ - ♪ But why this delay ♪

♪ 'Tis your mother who's calling ♪

♪ Her spirit is calling you to rejoice ♪

- ♪ So hear her voice ♪ - ♪ My mother ♪

- ♪ She's calling ♪ - ♪ I hear her voice ♪

♪ Yes, 'tis her spirit that does call ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ Yes, her spirit is calling ♪

♪ Her voice is ♪

♪ Calling ♪

- ♪ Child of mine, hear me calling ♪ - ♪ Yes, her spirit is calling ♪

- ♪ 'Tis your mother who's calling ♪ - ♪ So now rejoice ♪

♪ 'Tis my mother who's calling ♪

♪ Let thy heart rejoice ♪

♪ Child of mine, hear me calling ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ 'Tis my mother ♪

♪ I hear her voice ♪

♪ I seize on this joy all-defying ♪

♪ Ever flaming ♪

♪ How it sears my eyes ♪

♪ Ever flaming, ever flaming ♪

♪ How it sears How it sears my eyes ♪

♪ How it sears my eyes ♪

♪ How it sears my eyes How it sears my eyes ♪

[vocalizing]

- ♪ A moment more ere life be flying ♪ - ♪ Faster, faster ♪

- ♪ A moment more ere life be flying ♪ - ♪ Faster, faster ♪

♪ And then my soul shall mount the skies ♪

[mother] ♪ My voice is calling ♪

[Antonia] ♪ And then my soul Shall mount the skies ♪

♪ My soul shall mount the skies ♪

♪ Her spirit is calling So now rejoice ♪

[Antonia] ♪ A moment more ere life be flying ♪

- [Dr. Miracle] ♪ Calling to you ♪ - ♪ And then my soul ♪

♪ Shall mount the skies ♪

[mother] ♪ My voice is calling So now rejoice ♪

[Antonia] ♪ And then my soul shall mount the skies ♪

♪ I seize on this joy all-defying ♪

♪ Ever flaming How it sears my eyes ♪

♪ A moment more ere life be flying ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ And then And then my soul ♪

♪ And then my soul ♪

♪ Shall mount ♪

♪ The ♪

♪ Skies ♪

♪ Antonia ♪

[orchestra concludes playing]

[orchestra resumes playing]

[orchestra continues playing]

[orchestra concludes playing]

[orchestra resumes playing]

[orchestra resumes playing]

Olympia.

Giulietta.

Antonia.

[chorus] ♪ Pour out the wine And drink and drink till morning ♪

♪ Pour out the wine For drinking is divine ♪

♪ Pour out the wine And drink and drink till morning ♪

♪ Pour out the wine ♪

♪ Pour out the wine ♪

♪ And drink For drinking is divine ♪

♪ Divine ♪

[orchestra concludes playing]

[audience murmuring]

[audience applauding]

- Bravo! - Bravo!

[audience cheering, whistling, applause continues]

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[audience] Bravo! Bravo!

Bravo!

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