Prologue - The Stage Of Paris Opera House, 1905 (Live At The Royal Albert Hall/2011) - Andrew Lloyd Webber.mp3

[00:29.058]Sold！Your number，sir？
[00:33.056]Thank you
[00:34.553]Lot 663，then .Ladies and gentlemen
[00:38.558]A poster for this house’s production of “Hannibal” by Chaluinean
[00:44.806]Showing here
[00:48.056]Do I have ten francs?
[00:52.549]Five? Five I am bid
[00:55.802]Six? Six
[00:58.816]Do I see seven ?Seven
[01:01.305]Against you ,sir ,seven
[01:03.057]Eight? Eight
[01:06.309]Eight once
[01:08.806]Selling twice
[01:11.056]Sold ,to Raoul Vicomte de Chagny
[01:15.049]Thank you very much
[01:18.057]Lot 664,ladies and gentlemen
[01:21.313]A wooden pistol and three human skulls
[01:24.559]From the 1831 production of “Robert le Diable” by Meyerbeer
[01:31.306]Ten francs for this
[01:34.555]Ten, thank you
[01:37.051]Ten, I am bid
[01:39.060]Ten francs still
[01:40.557]Fifteen, thank you ,sir
[01:42.800]Fifteen I am bid
[01:46.307]Going for fifteen
[01:48.303]Your number ,sir? Thank you
[01:51.810]Lot 665,ladies and gentlemen
[01:57.056]A papier-maché musical box in the shape of a barrel organ
[02:01.807]Attached the figure of a monkey in Persian robes playing the cymbals
[02:07.557]This item ,discovered in the vaults of the theatre
[02:10.551]Still in working order ,ladies and gentlemen.
[02:14.053]Showing here .
[02:29.074]May I commence at 20 francs?
[02:35.060]Oh, come , come .ladies and gentleman. Fifteen, then?
[02:38.808]Fifteen I am bid. Thank you very much.
[02:41.562]Yes,20 from you ,sir .Thank you very much.
[02:44.058]“Twenty-five”
[02:45.056]Twenty-five on my right.
[02:46.554]Thank you madam.
[02:48.052]Twenty-five I am bid.
[02:49.804]Thirty? Thirty.
[02:52.810]Selling at 30 francs ,then.
[02:56.804]30 once,30 twice…
[03:00.810]Sold for 30 francs to the Vicomte de Chagny.
[03:05.061]Thank you very much ,sir.
[03:07.057]Boy.
[03:17.308]A collector’s piece indeed
[03:22.812]Every detail exactly as she said
[03:29.813]She often spoke of you ,my friend
[03:34.066]Your velvet lining and your figurine of lead
[03:41.806]Will you still play when all the rest of us are dead?
[03:50.804]Lot 666,then.
[03:54.811]A chandelier in pieces.
[03:58.597]Some of you may recall the strange affair of the phantom of the opera,
[04:04.065]a mystery never fully explained.
[04:07.060]We are told ,ladies and gentlemen ,that this is the very chandelier
[04:10.055]that figures in that famous disaster.
[04:13.305]Our workshops have restored it
[04:15.317]and fitted parts of it with wiring for the new electric light,
[04:19.307]so that we may get a hint of how it may took when reassembled.
[04:23.313]Perhaps we may even frighten away the ghost of so many years ago
[04:29.316]with a little illumination ,gentlemen!