Love is the strangest thing

Love is the strangest thing

Nicholas Lewis and Streetwise Opera

Session recording from 29 January

Composer recording by Nic Lewis

Figaro is dressing, preparing for his wedding day.

Figaro
Love is the strangest thing,
love is the strangest thing.
It’s nothing and everything,
nothing and everything.

When two rivers are flowing as one,
Two rivers flow into one.
Two rivers are flowing as one,
Two rivers flow into one.

Two rivers flow into one.
Two rivers flow into one.
Two rivers flow into.

Marcellina enters the room. She looks at Figaro and screams. Figaro screams in response. Marcellina exits.

Marcellina
A trick of the eye?
He’s my long lost son.
That mark on his arm?
I have the same one!

I used to dress and feed him,
sing him lullabies.
How do I tell him, hold him,
now all this time has gone by?

Love is so strange I could cry,
Love is so strange I could cry.

Figaro exits the room to see Marcellina stood there.

Figaro
What was all of that about?

Marcellina
You are my …

Figaro
Cant you see you stressed me out?

Marcellina
I am your …

Figaro
I really don’t have time for this.

Marcellina
We are a …

Figaro
My bride awaits, the car is here.

Marcellina
You are my son!

Figaro
Your son?

The two pause, confused. Their relationship has changed.

Marcellina
Love is the strangest thing.
Love is the strangest thing.
Kept hidden for all of these years.
Hidden for all of these years.		Figaro
Oh love, oh love
Oh love, oh love
For years, for years
For years, for years

Marcellina & Figaro
When two rivers have joined into one,
Two rivers joined into one.
Two rivers have joined into one,
Two rivers joined into one.

Two rivers joined into one.
Two rivers joined into one.
Two rivers joined into …. one.