Prologue - The Stage Of Paris Opera House, 1905 (Live At The Royal Albert Hall/2011)

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

Sold Your number sir Thank you

Lot 663 then ladies and gentlemen:

A poster for this house's production of "Hannibal" by Chalumeau

Showing here

Do I have ten francs Five then Five I am bid

Six seven Against you sir seven Eight

Eight once Selling twice Sold to Raoul Vicomte de Chagny

Lot 664: a wooden pistol and three human skulls

From the 1831 production of "Robert le Diable" by Meyerbeer

Ten francs for this Ten thank you

Ten francs still Fifteen thank you sir Fifteen I am bid

Going at fifteen Your number sir

Lot 665 ladies and gentlemen: a papier-mache musical box

In the shape of a barrel-organ

Attached the figure of a monkey in Persian robes playing the cymbals

This item discovered in the vaults of the theatre still in working order

Holding it up

Showing here

May I start at twenty francs Fifteen then Fifteen I am bid

A collector's piece indeed

Every detail exactly as she said

She often spoke of you my friend

Your velvet lining and your figurine of lead

Will you still play when all the rest of us are dead

Lot 666 then: a chandelier in pieces

Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera:

A mystery never fully explained

We are told ladies and gentlemen

That this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster

Our workshops have restored it

And fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light

So that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re- assembled

Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of

So many years ago with a little illumination gentlemen