LOST LETTERS Act 1 Scene 5 THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS 2
Act 1 Scene 5 - THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS - Mozart, Nannerl
This child-like song evokes the complicity between brother and sister during the family’s journeys, as well as with Sébastien Winter, their driver and valet who Wolfgang sometimes asks to draw the map of "The Kingdom Of Dreams" a land where there are only children who are happy and where he is the King and Nannerl is the Queen. The coda of this song alludes to the moment where she becomes very ill and narrowly misses death.
MOZART :
COME WITH ME TO THE KINGDOM OF MY DREAMS
GO WHERE THE SKY’S ALWAYS BLUE
SLIDE WITH ME DOWN UPON THOSE SUNNY FUNNY BEAMS
INTO A LAND THAT’S TRUE
YOU’RE THE QUEEN IN THE KINGDOM OF MY DREAMS
I AM YOUR KING WE ARE BLESSED
SO MANY MELODIES THAT COLOR AND THAT GLEAM
THE TREASURES IN OUR PLEASURE CHEST
SWEET MELODIES WE CARESS (piano solo)
MOZ + NANNERL : WE LIVE IN THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS (3X)
MOZ + THE CO :
SEBASTIEN YOU WONDERFUL CHAP !
SHAKE A LEG AND DRAW US A MAP !
THERE’S A TOWN WE’RE GOIN’ TO CALL IT TIM-BUC-TOO IF YOU MISS IT THEN WE KNOW YOU’RE A SAP (2X)
THERE’S A VILLAGE FILLY WILLAGE BY A GLADE
WHERE WE’LL REST OUR WEARY BONES IN THE SHADE
WITH THE SUN TO OUR BACK WE’LL HEAD TO SHACK-A-DACK AND WE’LL LISTEN TO THE SONGS THAT WE’VE MADE (2X)
DRIVE ON MY BASSY MAN ! DRIVE ON THE BEST YE CAN ! WITH A MAP AND A PLAN WE’LL DO THE BEST WE CAN DRIVE ON MY BASSY MAN! DRIVE ON MY BASSY MAN...
TUTTI : COME WITH ME TO THE KINGDOM OF MY DREAMS
WHERE WE SEE CHILDREN AT PLAY
LAUGHING AND SWAYING ON A LOVELY SUMMER BREEZE
A PLEASURELY LEISURELY DAY
YOU’RE THE QUEEN IN THE KINGDOM OF MY DREAMS
I AM THE KING YOU ESTEEM
FOREVER WALTZING ON A CARPET WITHOUT SEAMS,
SATB: OOH, OOH
MOZ/NAN: WE LIVE IN THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS
MOZ/NAN + S : WE LIVE IN THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS
TUTTI : WE LIVE IN THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS...
SATB: THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS (8x)
NAN: WACHET AUF! WACHET AUF! (2x) LA MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR EST UNE TRÈS JOLIE FEMME, N’EST-CE PAS? N’EST-CE PAS? YOU PLAY THE PIANO SO WELL, DEAR GIRL! WHY THANK YOU KING GEORGE, WHY THANK YOU! THANK YOU... THANK YOU... THANK YOU... THANK YOU... THANK YOU...
THE PRIEST : ET SUAM MISERICORDIUM, INDULGEAT TIBI DOMINUS
SED TANTUM DIC VERBO, ET SANABITUR ANIMA MEA.
KYRIE ELEISON, CHRISTE ELEISON, KYRIE ELEISON,
BENEDICAT TE OMNIPOTENS DEUS, PATER ET FILIUS, ET SPIRITUS SANCTUS. AMEN.
LEOPOLD + MARIANNE : VANITY OF HUMANITY, THIS WORLD IS ONLY VANITY. VANITY... IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU’LL BE SO HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY.
NARRATOR : YET EVEN WITH THE SPECTER OF DEATH SO NEAR ,
EVENTUALLY THE SKIES WOULD CLEAR
© 2014 John B. Meldrum
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