"Meanwhile, Mme. Carlotta (Virginia Pearson), the prima donna of the Paris Grand Opera, barges into the managers' office enraged. She has received a letter from ""The Phantom,"" demanding that Christine sing the role of Marguerite the following night, threatening dire consequences if his demands are not met. Christine is in her dressing room at that moment, speaking to a phantom voice (which the audience sees as a shadow on a wall behind the dressing room.) The voice warns her that she will take Carlotta's place on Wednesday and that she is to think only of her career and her master."
"house next to the subterranean lake beneath the Paris Opera. In ""The Phantom of the Opera"" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, ""Don Juan Triumphant"" figures prominently in the second act as an opera within a musical. It is, as stated before, a thinly veiled adaptation of Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"" which premiered in Prague in 1787, only told from Don Juan's point of view. In this version, the Phantom forces the opera company to stage his work and orders Christine, a Swedish soprano and his protege with whom he is in love, to be cast in the lead role. She reluctantly agrees"
"Christine Daaé Christine Daaé is a fictional character and the female protagonist of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and of the various adaptations of the work. Erik, the Phantom of the Opera and Viscount Raoul de Chagny both fall in love with her. Christine Daaé was born in a town near Uppsala, Sweden. Her mother died when she was six years old. Raised by her father, they constantly traveled to fairs where he played the violin and she sang. They were discovered at one of these fairs by Professor Valérius, who took them to Gothenburg and"
"to project a French atmosphere to reflect its Parisian setting. Its story hews more closely to the Leroux novel and offers a deeper exploration of the phantom's past and his relationship with Gérard Carrière, the head of the Opera House. The character Raoul does not feature at all in the story. In January 1991, Houston Texas's Theater Under the Stars presented the premiere of the Yeston/Kopit musical, renamed simply ""Phantom"" to separate it further from Lloyd Webber's and other productions of ""Phantom of the Opera"". Richard White starred in the title role. Members of the Houston cast recorded a cast"
"Phantom of the Opera (1976 musical) Phantom of the Opera is a 1976 musical with book and lyrics by Ken Hill. It is the first musical adaptation of the novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"" by Gaston Leroux, about the hideously disfigured Phantom's amorous obsession with the magnificent, naïve singer, Christine. Hill wrote the original English lyrics to the music of Verdi, Gounod, Offenbach, Mozart, Weber, Donizetti, and Boito. Hill’s ""Phantom of the Opera"" was the first musical version of the story by Gaston Leroux and has enjoyed financial success. Hill's musical inspired the award-winning Andrew Lloyd Webber musical version"
"Melbourne run ended on 12 December 2011 the production moved to the Capitol Theatre in Sydney where it played from January to April 2012. The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart. Richard Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber wrote the musical's book together. Stilgoe also provided additional lyrics. Based on the eponymous French novel by Gaston Leroux, its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath"
"to date, the opera's eight characters have been performed by singers doubling or tripling roles. ""(adapted and condensed from theatre programme from 2005 Edinburgh production, and by referencing the privately circulated DVD recording of the opera, also from the Edinburgh production)"" The action takes place variously in London, Palestine, Afghanistan, the White House in Washington DC and Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay. Scene 1 - London Leila, a Palestinian Arab poet, lives in London with Daniel Xavier, a British Jewish composer. In addition to being lovers, the two are artistic collaborators, as Leila is writing a libretto for Daniel's music. However,"
"Australia and New Zealand, on national tours. Phantom of the Opera (1976 musical) Phantom of the Opera is a 1976 musical with book and lyrics by Ken Hill. It is the first musical adaptation of the novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"" by Gaston Leroux, about the hideously disfigured Phantom's amorous obsession with the magnificent, naïve singer, Christine. Hill wrote the original English lyrics to the music of Verdi, Gounod, Offenbach, Mozart, Weber, Donizetti, and Boito. Hill’s ""Phantom of the Opera"" was the first musical version of the story by Gaston Leroux and has enjoyed financial success. Hill's musical inspired"
"out portions of her mother's tragic youth, gaining insight, forgiveness, and strength. The opera is set both in 1997 San Francisco, and in China and Hong Kong around the outbreak of World War II. Shifting times and locales are linked by a recurring trio of women: American-born Ruth, a professional ghostwriter who scarcely speaks up for herself; her mother, LuLing, who appears both as a querulous old woman and as a selfish adolescent; and LuLing's childhood caretaker known as Precious Auntie, who appears both as a ghost and as the fiery young mother she once was. For further details, see"
"The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by Rose's irritable father, Frank. The show portrays the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossips of the neighbors, as the mounting tensions involving the Maurrant family eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions. As the curtain rises, we are introduced to some of the residents of the apartment"
"to genuine emotional fervour. ... Erik is altogether more engaging and believable than the Lloyd-Webber skulker."" He stated that this makes the Beauty and the Beast theme ""credible and agonizing"", and that the father-son theme is even more ""moving in the agony of both loving and loathing the thing you have spawned."" Phantom (musical) Phantom is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit. Based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"", the musical was first presented in Houston, Texas in 1991. Although it has never appeared on Broadway and"
"James Barbour (singer) James Barbour (born April 25, 1966), is an American singer and Broadway actor. Barbour was born April 25, 1966 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He graduated from Hofstra University. In late 2007, he performed the role of Sydney Carton in a world premiere pre-Broadway musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' ""A Tale of Two Cities"" at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. It was announced in January 2015 that Barbour would take the role of Phantom in the Broadway musical ""Phantom of the Opera"". He was cast once more as Sydney Carton in the Broadway musical adaptation"
"The opera is set in 15th-century Venice, at the house of Simone Trovai, military commander of the Venetian republic. On the night of the great Carnival, Simone in vain searches his house for his wife Violanta. Ever since her sister Nerina committed suicide (after having been seduced by Alfonso, the Prince of Naples), she has been bent on vengeance. Simone is about to leave for the Carnival with the painter Giovanni Bracca, when Violanta appears. After dismissing Bracca, she reveals to Simone that she has (anonymously) arranged a meeting with Alfonso in their house, where she wants her husband to"
"Phantom (musical) Phantom is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit. Based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"", the musical was first presented in Houston, Texas in 1991. Although it has never appeared on Broadway and has been overshadowed by the success of the 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Yeston and Kopit's ""Phantom"" has received over 1,000 productions. Yeston and Kopit had just finished the musical ""Nine"", winner of the Tony Award for ""Best Musical"" in 1982, when in 1983 they were approached by actor/director Geoffrey Holder to"
"Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when the Opéra Bastille opened at the Place de la Bastille. The Paris Opera now mainly uses the Palais Garnier for ballet. The Palais Garnier has been called ""probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur Basilica."" This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and, especially, the novel's subsequent adaptations in films and the popular 1986 musical. Another contributing factor is"
"performed by Bampton Classical Opera in English translation in July of that year, followed by performances in London's Wigmore Hall in September. The opera received its US premiere in New Brunswick, New Jersey at the Rutgers University Nicholas Music Center on 30 October 2009. The story is set in Taranto and concerns the Prince of Sorrento's search for Prince Casimiro's rightful heir who had been taken to Taranto as a baby after her father's murder. Two young fisherwomen in the village, Lesbina and Nerina, each believe they might be the missing princess. Although they are engaged to each other's brother"
"and Mohammed renounce violence and attempt to resolve their lives and grievances in a more peaceful manner, but are caught up in the brutal realpolitik of war and the imperial machinations of the American state. The action takes place variously in London, Palestine, Afghanistan, the White House in Washington, D.C., and Camp X-Ray (Guantanamo), and contains both realistic and metaphysical content. To date, the opera has been staged once, at the King's Head Theatre in London in September 2011. Set in the present day or ""near-future"", the complex plot centres on a harrowing journey through the War on Terror by"
"is set in Hackney during the oppressive reign of Oliver Cromwell. Hannah leads the people of Hackney on to London Fields where, in a series of increasingly vivid prophecies, she sings of a new proto-Marxist Kingdom of Heaven. Among her followers are an idealistic young couple called Deborah and Abel. Eventually the meeting is brutally suppressed by a group of Puritan soldiers led by Sir Bawnagayne Surly. Abel tries to oppose the soldiers and is killed. The opera ends with his young widow singing a poignant lullaby to the couple's unborn child. For the original production Matthew King composed for"
"he hoped to have the opera premiered in Vienna, where in fact it was eventually produced in 1861 - most of the opera was written in Dornbach, not far from the capital. The opera's first performance in Russia was in 1867. The location is a Hungarian village. Wania is Isbrania's lover; she tells him of a planned robbery of Conrad's inn, which Wania foils. Conrad offers him as a reward his daughter Maria in marriage. Maria confesses to her father that she is in love with a mystery man, who turns out to be Count Waldemar. Waldemar and Isbrana conspire"
"in London on 17 September 1931. The operetta takes place after the end of the first world war in a Russian prison camp in Siberia, as well as in the cities Tokyo (Japan), St. Petersburg (Russia) and the Hungarian village Dorozsma near Szeged. Stefan Koltay, Cavalry Master of the Husars, and his batman Jancsi have become prisoners of war to the Russians. Because they both joined with a group that planned a counter-revolution, and was revealed, they have been sentenced to death and are now awaiting their execution. Jancsi plays a sorrowful Hungarian melody on his violin one last time."
"developing a grand scale version of his Phantom in the West End, and offered to produce it. In fact, Hill and Lloyd Webber had worked together earlier on a revival of ""Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"" at the Winchester Theatre. Lloyd Webber and his producer, Cameron Mackintosh, had been highly enthusiastic when they broached Hill about his Phantom of the Opera. But in the end, Lloyd Webber chose to pursue the musical without Hill. ""Phantom of the Opera"" then emerged on the other side of the Atlantic in 1987 for its American premiere in St. Louis at the Repertory"
"and orchestral parts are all in the collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center in New York City. The original working title of the opera was ""Knights of the Hemp"". The setting of the opera is a small Parisian tavern, in the dead of winter, during the 17th century. A group of torturers meet, and compare stories. The mistress of the tavern listens intently as one of the men recounts how, years ago, he'd tortured a young man. Just before the young man died, he'd promised his tormentor that one day he'd return"
"was first performed on 27 September that year. Michael Hofstetter, who staged a series of revivals of rarely played operas, conducted the Ludwigsburg Festival orchestra and singers from the Gärtnerplatztheater in performances and a recording. The first production in Switzerland was mounted in Zurich in 2016 by the Free Opera Company, with dialogues in more modern German and a reduced orchestra, conducted by Emmanuel Siffert. The action takes place in Florence. The plot is marked by confusions in relationships, caused partly by disguise and by misunderstanding of signs and tokens of love. The music was described as inspired by Mozart,"
"revised version, by the composer, took place in 1985 with the New York Opera Repertory Theater. The composer himself had great affection for this opera. The premiere production received mixed reviews, with one particularly negative one from Harold C. Schonberg, including this description: ""...a very bland score, distressingly banal (all those waltzes!) and frequently gagglingly cutesy."" The opera has not yet received a full-scale professional production. Monadnock Music performed the opera in September 1991. The opera is set in London from 1812 to 1824. In the nave of Westminster Abbey, Lord Byron's friends, wife and sister have arrived to present"
"1, and Catalunya Música. In her review of the 2012 revival for ""Musical America"", Rebecca Schmid described the score as a ""rehashed Mozartean farce with shades of Cimarosa and Rossini"". ""Gramophone""'s critic, James Jolly, thought the music ""charming and occasionally surprisingly engaging with its vivid colours and original orchestral effects."" The opera is set in an abandoned house in Rome belonging to the nobleman Don Raimondo Colloverde. Unable to rent it out because it has the reputation of being haunted, he has instructed his major domo, Callisto, to place a sign in the street offering it to a poor person"
"Shelley"", ""Home James!"" and ""Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself"". David Firth (actor) David Firth (born 15 March 1945) is an English actor, writer and singer for stage, film and television. Firth was a member of the original cast of ""Phantom of the Opera"" with Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. David Firth (born David Coleman) was born in Bedford on 15 March 1945. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, the University of Sussex and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Firth was with the Royal Shakespeare Company (1967–70), the Royal National Theatre (1973) and part of the original"
"relationship with an apologetic, self-effacing letter placed at the bottom of a basket of apricots he has delivered to Emma. The shock is so great that Emma falls deathly ill and briefly turns to religion. When Emma is nearly fully recovered, she and Charles attend the opera, at Charles' insistence, in nearby Rouen. The opera reawakens Emma's passions, and she re-encounters Léon who, now educated and working in Rouen, is also attending the opera. They begin an affair. While Charles believes that she is taking piano lessons, Emma travels to the city each week to meet Léon, always in the"
"disappeared from the repertory. The opera was revived in Metz in 2011 at the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole to mark the bicentenary of the composer's birth. Catherine Hunold sang the title role and the was conducted by Jacques Mercier. The action takes place in Hell (prologue and epilogue) and in Rimini at the end of the 13th century. In the prologue, Dante and Virgil meet the lovers Paolo and Françoise in Hell, and Virgil suggest that Dante tell their story. During the four acts, their passionate love unfolds against the background of the battles between the Guelphs and Ghibellines. In"
"at the Paris Opera, the Phantom is now a well known tycoon and the mastermind of Phantasma, a Coney Island amusement park. Despite his success, he is tortured by the absence of Christine Daaé in his life and longs to hear her sing again (""Til I Hear You Sing""). At Phantasma, a trio of freak show performers (Dr. Gangle, Miss Fleck, and Mr. Squelch) introduce the wonders of Coney Island (""The Coney Island Waltz""). Meg Giry, Christine's friend from the Paris Opera, has become ""The Ooh La La Girl"" in The Phantom's vaudeville show, which Madame Giry produces. Meg and"
"Salzburg in 1953, where they met a young Canadian piano prodigy (Gould). In Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1953 the main characters met a young Canadian prodigy who played the Goldberg Variations miraculously and who, they quickly came to realize, was a greater pianist than even their teacher—indeed, ""the most important piano virtuoso of the century,"" as the narrator puts it in the novel's opening sentence. The encounter with Gould affects both characters decisively for almost three decades, as they experience an endless series of personal and intellectual travails. Gould’s talent triggers the suicidal tendencies of his two colleagues: so great"
"the 1950s. Francesco Lanzillotta conducted the Teatro San Carlo orchestra and chorus. The opera was performed again in July 2015 at the Festival della Valle d'Itria. The performance there (with a new cast) was recorded live and released in 2016 on the Dynamic label. Setting: A village near Naples in the early 19th century Act 1 The opera opens inside Bartolaccio's inn. The road to Naples with hills in the distance can be seen through the inn's entrance. Bartolaccio's daughter Fiorina is at her spinning wheel in the dining room, while Bartolaccio and his head waiter Carletto scurry about serving"
"by the 1911 Gaston Leroux novel. He wrote the part of Christine for his then-wife, Sarah Brightman, who played the role in the original London and Broadway productions alongside Michael Crawford as the Phantom. The production was directed by Harold Prince, who had also earlier directed ""Evita."" Charles Hart wrote the lyrics for ""Phantom"" with some additional material provided by Richard Stilgoe, with whom Lloyd Webber co-wrote the book of the musical. It became a hit and is still running in both the West End and on Broadway; in January 2006 it overtook ""Cats"" as the longest-running musical on Broadway."
"original ""Phantom of the Opera"": ""As sequel and original are erected on such different imaginative premises they cannot both be true"". Love Never Dies (musical) Love Never Dies is a romantic musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth and Slater. It is a sequel to the long-running musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and was loosely adapted from Forsyth's novel ""The Phantom of Manhattan"" (1999). The plot is not based on the storyline in the original book by Gaston Leroux. Lloyd Webber stated: ""I don't regard"