How can you—as you have never been there?
AMADEUS
But you have told me enough about it. A villa standing at the edge of the water—radiantly white—with marble steps leading straight down to the blue sea.
FREDERIQUE
Yes. And sometimes, on very hot nights, I sleep in the park, right on the sward, under a plane tree.
AMADEUS
That plane tree is famous.—But time is flying. It would be better to go on with the singing. (He seats himself at the piano again) The polonaise—if you please, Countess. (He begins the accompaniment)
FREDERIQUE (singing)
"Titania, airiest queen of fairies,
Has descended from her blue cloud throne,