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The Enchantress: “I want to be a prima donna”
by Victor Herbert (1859–1924)
The paradox of the song “I want to be a prima donna” – from Victor Herbert’s musical The Enchantress, which opened on Broadway in 1911 – is that you can’t sing it unless you are already a prima donna.
From Gerald Larner’s files: “Enchantress/I want.rtf”