Italienne scène et orchestre

And in "the joy of singing about painful things" it's not pain that's important, but joy It's to achieve joy that we sing tragic things Enter with the same intimidation as Verdi faced his blank page before he invented The notes you're about to sing Where did you go to school? I knew they'd teach you to play for the subscribers You must play for the ignorant who come to the opera for the first time And if you accept that you don't know anything yourself, he may think That there's a little place for him next to you on the stage