Music: Gian Carlo Menotti
Good evening, Madame Flora.
Good evening.
What do you want?
Isn't this the night of the seance?
The seance?
Yes, yes, I'm glad you came.
I've something to tell you, come in.
There will be no more seances.
There is your money.
No more seances?
What do you mean?
Listen to me!
There never was a seance!
I cheated you'
Do you understand?
Cheated you, cheated you'
How could it be?
It isn't true, you must not say so!
I clearly saw my daughter,
I saw her, with my own eyes!
And little Mickey, laughing, touching my hair!
Nothing but a fraud,
I can prove it to you.
Look here, the lights, the wires to make the table move.
The hidden microphone.
Oh, no! I saw my daughter, I saw her!
Your daughter, here she is!
Cheap white gauze, nothing else.
But I spoke to her.
Monica, Monica, let her hear your voice, show her.
"Mother, mother, are you there'
Mother, mother, are you there?"
Oh, no, no, no, that isn't the same voice!
And do the little boy laughing.
Oh, no' You know that isn't the same!
You fools!
What more proofs do you want?