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'Til I Hear You Sing
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"'Til I Hear You Sing" is a song from the 2010 musical sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, entitled Love Never Dies. It is sung by the Phantom, played by Ramin Karimloo in the original cast.
Synopsis[edit]
The Phantom sings about his he has done next to nothing in the ten years since the events of the first musical took place. He now feels like he cannot be productive in any way until he hears Chrstine sing again.
Critical reception[edit]
StageWhispers described it as a "vocally demanding opening prologue".[1] All Music described this song, along with the title song, as "crafty/schmaltzy ballads".[2] Gramophone wrote "Karimloo’s Phantom seethes magnificently in his opening ballad ‘Til I Hear You Sing".[3]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.stagewhispers.com.au/reviews/love-never-dies
2.Jump up ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/love-never-dies-mw0001962486
3.Jump up ^ http://www.gramophone.co.uk/blog/the-gramophone-blog/first-night-review-love-never-dies


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 The Phantom of the Opera (1989) ·
 Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) ·
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 Joseph Buquet
 

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Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
 "Think of Me" ·
 "Angel of Music" ·
 "Little Lotte" ·
 "The Phantom of the Opera" ·
 "The Music of the Night" ·
 "I Remember" ·
 "Stranger Than You Dreamt It" ·
 "Magical Lasso" ·
 "Notes " ·
 "Prima Donna" ·
 "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" ·
 "Why Have You Brought Us Here?" ·
 "Raoul, I've Been There" ·
 "All I Ask of You"
 


Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
 "Down Once More" ·
 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


Other

"Learn to Be Lonely" ·
 "'Til I Hear You Sing"
 


Other
Gaston Leroux ·
 Andrew Lloyd Webber ·
 Ken Hill ·
 Maury Yeston ·
 Don Juan Triumphant ·
 Punjab lasso ·
 Adaptations ·
 Return of the Phantom ·
 Palais Garnier ·
 Lon Chaney (Sr.) ·
 "A Slight at the Opera"
 

 


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Learn to Be Lonely
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"Learn to be Lonely" is a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart for the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. The song is performed by Minnie Driver during the closing credits, and is found on the film's soundtrack.
Another song using the melody of Learn to be Lonely entitled No One Would Listen (also with lyrics by Hart) was originally included in the film, to be sung by the Phantom, but was ultimately cut.
This is the only song in the film or on its soundtrack to feature Minnie Driver, who played Carlotta in the film, actually singing; the character's opera voice was given by Margaret Preece (who played Carlotta in the stage musical at one time and had a bit part in the film as Carlotta's confidante).
Beyoncé performed the song at the 2005 Oscars (she performed all of that year's nominees for Best Original Song requiring female lead vocals) with Webber accompanying on piano. Minnie Driver performed the song during her appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.


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Stage adaptations
Phantom of the Opera (1976) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1986) ·
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ·
 Song at Midnight (1937) ·
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 The Phantom of the Opera (1962) ·
 The Phantom of Hollywood (1974) ·
 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ·
 Opera (1987) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1989) ·
 Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1990) ·
 The Phantom Lover (1995) ·
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Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
 "Think of Me" ·
 "Angel of Music" ·
 "Little Lotte" ·
 "The Phantom of the Opera" ·
 "The Music of the Night" ·
 "I Remember" ·
 "Stranger Than You Dreamt It" ·
 "Magical Lasso" ·
 "Notes " ·
 "Prima Donna" ·
 "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" ·
 "Why Have You Brought Us Here?" ·
 "Raoul, I've Been There" ·
 "All I Ask of You"
 


Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
 "Down Once More" ·
 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


Other

"Learn to Be Lonely" ·
 "'Til I Hear You Sing"
 


Other
Gaston Leroux ·
 Andrew Lloyd Webber ·
 Ken Hill ·
 Maury Yeston ·
 Don Juan Triumphant ·
 Punjab lasso ·
 Adaptations ·
 Return of the Phantom ·
 Palais Garnier ·
 Lon Chaney (Sr.) ·
 "A Slight at the Opera"
 




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Masquerade (The Phantom of the Opera song)
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"Masquerade" is a song from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera. The song's music was composed by Lloyd Webber and the lyrics were written by Alan Jay Lerner. Lerner withdrew from the project after writing this song and was replaced by Charles Hart, who wrote the rest of the musical's lyrics. It is sung at the beginning of the second act where a New Year's masquerade ball is held at the Opera House. Several months have passed since the end of the first act and the cast and crew of the Opera House have heard nothing of the Phantom for that period of time, thus assuming that he had left them for good. The owners of the Opera, Andre and Firmin, are determined to celebrate this, as well as the "new chandelier" installed after the Phantom fell the last one (although this is changed to "our friends who are here" for the film, where the falling chandelier is moved until a later scene). Christine and Raoul also mention their secret engagement, each expressing doubt and that they need not be so silent about it.
Themes and metaphors[edit]
The song begins in a bright, cheery, and perhaps innocently sinister manner, with all people dancing and swirling about in costumes. The lyrics, though, reveal that there is something strange about the song. They describe the power of masks and their ability to conceal one's persona, which may seem like a game—but the words reveal the dangerous side of hiding away. As the revelers sing, "You can fool any friend who ever knew you!" Indeed, Firmin and Andre begin the song by tentatively approaching one another in skeleton costumes, uncertainly whispering one another's names and only breaking into a self-congratulatory conversation once they have established their identities.
The song also acts a strange parallel to the Phantom himself. The lyrics of the song boldly state:


Masquerade!
 Paper faces on parade...
 Masquerade!
 Hide your face so the world will never find you...
This mirrors not only the fact that the Phantom wears a mask to conceal his disfigured face, but also the fact that he hides himself away from the world. By turning his daily practice into a fun but dark game for the patrons and workers of the opera, the song suggests that all social interaction requires one to metaphorically conceal oneself. One can only enjoy perfect liberty while in disguise. This is driven home when the Phantom disrupts the song by arriving in an elaborate Red Death costume and mask, bullies and taunts the managers and wrenches the chain Christine wears her engagement ring on from around her neck.
It should also be noted that "bal masques" were popular middle-class entertainments held at the Palais Garnier and elsewhere throughout the latter quarter of the nineteenth century, and did not necessarily have any connection to other events or performances at the Opera.
"Masquerade" is usually viewed as the show's theme (alongside the "Phantom of the Opera" melody), mainly because it is the first song that the audience hears throughout the whole play, even before the overture begins. It is the song that plays from the mysterious monkey and barrel organ music box that eventually becomes a symbol of the Phantom's and Christine's love. In the play's final scenes, the Phantom, unmasked, observes the music box in his lair. It comes to life by magic, and tinkles out its tune across a vast, silent stage. The Phantom sings the lines quoted above while staring at his mask, reflecting on his life of hiding away and perhaps on his impending need to secure himself from his pursuers. He finally whispers, "Christine...I love you...," echoing Raoul's identical declaration several scenes before (in the song "All I Ask of You"), before preparing to disappear. Perhaps significantly, he leaves his mask on his chair.


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Stage adaptations
Phantom of the Opera (1976) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1986) ·
 Phantom (1991) ·
 Love Never Dies (2010)
 

Film and television
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ·
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 Phantom of the Opera (1943) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1962) ·
 The Phantom of Hollywood (1974) ·
 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ·
 Opera (1987) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1989) ·
 Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1990) ·
 The Phantom Lover (1995) ·
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Songs



Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
 "Think of Me" ·
 "Angel of Music" ·
 "Little Lotte" ·
 "The Phantom of the Opera" ·
 "The Music of the Night" ·
 "I Remember" ·
 "Stranger Than You Dreamt It" ·
 "Magical Lasso" ·
 "Notes " ·
 "Prima Donna" ·
 "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" ·
 "Why Have You Brought Us Here?" ·
 "Raoul, I've Been There" ·
 "All I Ask of You"
 


Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
 "Down Once More" ·
 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


Other

"Learn to Be Lonely" ·
 "'Til I Hear You Sing"
 


Other
Gaston Leroux ·
 Andrew Lloyd Webber ·
 Ken Hill ·
 Maury Yeston ·
 Don Juan Triumphant ·
 Punjab lasso ·
 Adaptations ·
 Return of the Phantom ·
 Palais Garnier ·
 Lon Chaney (Sr.) ·
 "A Slight at the Opera"
 

 


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All I Ask of You
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"All I Ask of You"

Single by Cliff Richard and Sarah Brightman

from the album The Phantom of the Opera

B-side
"Phantom Overture Act II"
Released
September 1986
Format
7 and 12" Vinyl
Genre
Musical theatre
Length
4:08
Label
Polydor
Writer(s)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (Music), Charles Hart (Lyrics), Richard Stilgoe (Additional Lyrics)
Producer(s)
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Sarah Brightman chronology

"Unexpected Song"
 (1984) "All I Ask of You"
 (1986) "Doretta's Dream"
 (1987)

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"Born to
 Rock 'n' Roll"
 (1986) "All I Ask of You"
 (1986) "Slow Rivers"
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"All I Ask of You" is a song from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical version of The Phantom of the Opera.
It was released as a single on both 7 and 12 inch vinyl in 1986 by Cliff Richard and Sarah Brightman.[1]
It was certified Silver in the UK.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Track listing 1.1 7-inch vinyl
1.2 12-inch vinyl
2 Chart performance
3 Covers
4 References
5 External links

Track listing[edit]
7-inch vinyl[edit]
1."All I Ask of You" duet with Cliff Richard
2."Phantom Overture Act II"
12-inch vinyl[edit]
1."All I Ask of You" duet with Cliff Richard
2."Only You" with Cliff Richard (from Starlight Express)
3."Phantom Overture Act II"
The song occurs at the end of Act I of the musical. Christine Daaé, terrified of the Phantom after a stagehand is found murdered during an opera performance, flees to the roof of the Paris Opera House with her childhood friend, Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny. He promises to love her and keep her safe from the Phantom, who is listening in on the exchange without their knowledge. Heartbroken and furious at being spurned, he swears revenge against Raoul and causes the Opera's giant chandelier to crash to the floor.
Chart performance[edit]

Chart
Peak
 position

UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[3] 3
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 24
Ireland (IRMA)[5] 1
South Africa (Springbok Radio)[6] 1

Covers[edit]
Barbra Streisand recorded the song on her 1988 album Till I Loved You
The Shadows did an instrumental version on their 1989 album Steppin' to the Shadows.
The King's Singers included a choral arrangement on their 1993 album, Chanson D'Amour
Elaine Paige performed a solo version of the track on her 2006 album, Essential Musicals.
Julian Lloyd Webber recorded the song in a special arrangement for cello by its original orchestrator, David Cullen, on the 2001 album Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber.
Susan Boyle recorded the song with Donny Osmond on her 2012 album Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage.
Tim Callicrate covered the song on his album Serenade From Tahoe II
Trisha Crowe and Michael Falzon for the Australian compilation album I Dreamed a Dream: Hit Songs of Broadway for ABC Classics[7]
Filipina Singer, Jolina Magdangal and her brother, Gabby David Magdangal covered their song on her upcoming album, due to release on March 2014 via GMA Records.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "All I Ask of You". Early Sarah Brightman. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008.
2.Jump up ^ "British certifications – Cliff Richard & Sarah Brightman – All I Ask of You". British Phonographic Industry. Enter All I Ask of You in the field Search. Select Title in the field Search by. Click Go
3.Jump up ^ "Cliff Richard" UK Singles Chart.
4.Jump up ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (doc). Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
5.Jump up ^ "Ireland singles charts". Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
6.Jump up ^ As presented on Springbok Radio/Radio Orion: "South African Charts 1969 - 1989". rock.co.za. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
7.Jump up ^ "I Dreamed A Dream – Hit Songs of Broadway". ABC. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
External links[edit]
Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics


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The Music of the Night
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"The Music of the Night" is a song from the musical The Phantom of the Opera. The music was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Charles Hart.


Contents  [hide]
1 History/Performances
2 Puccini controversy
3 Legacy
4 Notes
5 External links

History/Performances[edit]
Initially made famous by Michael Crawford, the actor who originated the role of the Phantom both in the West End and on Broadway, the popular song has sold millions of copies worldwide and has been translated into many different languages. The Really Useful Group filmed a video starring Crawford and Sarah Brightman (who did not sing), which featured the original lyrics to the song. Crawford later recorded the song as duet with Barbra Streisand for her album "Back to Broadway" (1993). This version of the song also appears on her greatest duets album.
In the musical, it is sung after the Phantom lures Christine Daaé down to his lair beneath the Opera House. He seduces Christine with "his music" of the night, his voice putting her into a type of trance. He sings of his unspoken love for her and urges her to forget the world and life she knew before. The Phantom leads Christine around his lair, eventually pulling back a curtain to reveal a mannequin dressed in a wedding gown resembling Christine. When she approaches it, it suddenly moves, causing her to faint. The Phantom then carries Christine to a bed, where he lays her down and goes on to write his music.
Sarah Brightman declared at the London's Royal Albert Hall Concert in 1997,[1] that the song was originally written by Andrew Lloyd Webber for her, the first time he met her. That version had different lyrics and was called "Married Man". The lyrics were later rewritten and the song was added into The Phantom of the Opera. After her run as the original Christine, she began using the song in her solo concerts.
A year before The Phantom Of The Opera even opened at Her Majesty's Theatre, the original version of the song was performed at Andrew Lloyd Webber's own theatre at Sydmonton, along with the first drafts of the show. The audience were a specially gathered group of Webber's acquaintances. The Phantom was played by Colm Wilkinson, who sang "The Music Of The Night" in Act One. As Charles Hart had not yet become involved in writing the song, in places the lyrics were very different from the ones used in the three variations of the song.
One version of "The Music of the Night", as performed by Sarah Brightman, has alternative lyrics, as well as a different ending, replacing the line "To the power of the music that I write," with "To the harmony which dreams alone can write".
Puccini controversy[edit]
Because of very noticeable similarities between the song and a recurring melody in Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera, La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), Webber has been accused of plagiarism by several individuals. Following the success of Phantom, the Puccini estate filed suit against Webber, accusing him of plagiarism, but the suit was settled out of court and details were not released to the public.[2]
Legacy[edit]
Meryl Davis and Charlie White used the song when ice dancing at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver and won a silver medal. Jackie Evancho included the song on her 2012 album Songs from the Silver Screen.
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Sarah Brightman concert
2.Jump up ^ Ouzounian, Richard (2006-01-02). "Aspects of Andrew". Toronto Star. 
External links[edit]
Alternative lyrics to the song
Current Broadway Phantom Hugh Panaro performing the song in concert
Television performance by Julian Lloyd Webber


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 The Phantom of Manhattan (1999)
 

Stage adaptations
Phantom of the Opera (1976) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1986) ·
 Phantom (1991) ·
 Love Never Dies (2010)
 

Film and television
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ·
 Song at Midnight (1937) ·
 Phantom of the Opera (1943) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1962) ·
 The Phantom of Hollywood (1974) ·
 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ·
 Opera (1987) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1989) ·
 Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1990) ·
 The Phantom Lover (1995) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1998) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (2004) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
 

Characters
Erik ·
 Christine Daaé ·
 Viscount Raoul de Chagny ·
 The Persian ·
 Carlotta ·
 Madame Giry ·
 Meg Giry ·
 Joseph Buquet
 

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Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
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Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
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 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


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The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song)
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"The Phantom of the Opera" is a song from the stage musical of the same name, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, sung by Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford, lyrics written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and additional lyrics by Mike Batt.[citation needed]


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1 Background
2 Influences
3 Controversies
4 Cover versions
5 References

Background[edit]
The song is performed in Act I after the song "Angel of Music" (The Mirror) and before "The Music of the Night" (and is reprised in Act Two at the end of the song "Notes/Twisted Every Way"). It takes place as the Phantom escorts Christine by boat to his lair beneath the Opera Garnier. It is sung as a duet by Christine and the Phantom. In this song, Christine sings her highest note in the show, a D#, at the end of the song. In different shows, Sarah Brightman sings this song in different duets with other performers Steve Harley, Antonio Banderas, Chris Thompson, Alessandro Safina, Mario Frangoulis, Colm Wilkinson, Anthony Warlow, John Owen-Jones, Peter Jöback and Erkan Aki.
Influences[edit]
What makes this particular song unique within the musical is its unusual hard rock style, since most of the songs in the musical have a more operatic style. Early in the musical's production, Andrew Lloyd Webber met Jim Steinman, who described "The Phantom of the Opera" as a rock song invading an opera house. This is what inspired the hard rock style of the song, which influenced all of the rock-based instruments in the song including drums and electric guitar.
"The Phantom of the Opera" song was also specially arranged by the show's original orchestrator, David Cullen, for a virtuoso cello version for cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, Andrew's brother, for the CD Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber.
Controversies[edit]
Ray Repp sued Andrew Lloyd Webber over the main melody of Phantom, claiming that it was based on his folk song "Till You" which he recorded in 1978. Webber won the case however, with the counter-claim that the section of "Phantom" in question was actually based on Webber's "Close Every Door", which was written before Till You.
In addition, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd had asserted that Andrew Lloyd Webber had plagiarised the intro section from the Pink Floyd song "Echoes", which largely resembles it, although he decided against filing a lawsuit.

"Yeah, the beginning of that bloody Phantom song is from Echoes. *DAAAA-da-da-da-da-da* [sic]. I couldn't believe it when I heard it. It's the same time signature – it's 12/8 – and it's the same structure and it's the same notes and it's the same everything. It probably is actionable. It really is! But I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew Lloyd Webber."[1]
Cover versions[edit]
The British guitarist; Hank Marvin did an instrumental version of the song on his 1997 album Hank Plays the Music of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The song "The Phantom of the Opera" was covered in 1998 by Charlotte Church and Peter Karrie. It was also covered in 2002 by the Finnish symphonic power metal quintet Nightwish and released on the album Century Child. This particular version of the song, with Tarja Turunen (soprano) singing Christine's part and Marco Hietala (baritone/tenor) singing the part of The Phantom, is set in a different register (one whole tone below) to the original version written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. On the recorded version, the female vocalisation at the end of the song is quite different from the original, however, when the song is performed live, the vocalisation is the same, although with a slightly different key progression. Tarja Turunen hits E6 in live at the end of the song. She also sings it in her solo concerts. There is also another gothic metal version released in 1999 by Austrian band Dreams of Sanity (Masquerade album). Tarja also performed the song live in Rock in Rio 2011, along with Brazilian power metal band Angra. Japanese Symphonic Metal band Liv Moon have also covererd the song live, as a duet between lead singer Akane Liv and guitarist Takayoshi Ohmura.
The song was also covered by Israeli countertenor David D'Or, backed by the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, on David D’Or & the Philharmonic; Live Concert, released on 1 April 2003.[2][3]
Power metal band HolyHell also covered the song, with Eric Adams of Manowar making a guest appearance singing the part of The Phantom.
The song was also covered by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their show-tune album, Are A Drag. Also, in Rufus Wainwright's song "Between My Legs", from the album Release the Stars, the last 30 seconds plays the main theme from this song. The song was also covered by X Factor finalist, Rhydian Roberts, for which Lord Lloyd Webber wrote a male solo version specially for the artist.
The beginning melody for this song was also used in the Alice Cooper concert DVD Live in Montreux before the song "Department of Youth".
In about 2001, this song is covered by Sophie Viskich and Kris Phillips live in Beijing, China.
Richard Clayderman has also arranged a piano-orchestral version of the song; originally found in his album The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber.[4]
In 2011, Hawaiian-American singer Nicole Scherzinger sang this song at the annual Royal Variety Performance in the United Kingdom, which is often attended by Queen Elizabeth II but was attended by her daughter Princess Anne this year. Nicole Scherzinger was accompanied by four male "Phantoms" (John Owen-Jones, Ramin Karimloo, Simon Bowman and Earl Carpenter) for the performance, which was performed to make the 25th anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
This is used as Kyla Ross' floor music. She was part of the gold winning gymnastics team at the 2012 Olympics. It is also covered by Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku portraying as Christine.
Violinist Lindsey Stirling did an accompanied instrumental version of the song on her Phantom of the Opera single in 2012.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Who the hell does Roger Waters think he is? Q magazine. November 1992. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
2.Jump up ^ "David D'Or & The Philharmonic". daviddor.com. February 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2009.[dead link]
3.Jump up ^ "David D'Or – David D'Or and the Philharmonic". Allmusic. Retrieved 5 May 2009.[dead link]
4.Jump up ^ Amazon.com: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber: Richard Clayderman: Music


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Joseph Buquet
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Joseph Buquet is a fictional character in The Phantom of the Opera, the 1910 novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. He also appears in the 1986 stage version.
He is the chief stagehand for the theatre who claims to have seen the Opera Ghost. In the novel he is the one to first describe Erik, saying, "He is extraordinarily thin and his dress-coat hangs on a skeleton frame. His eyes are so deep that you can hardly see the fixed pupils. You just see two big black holes, as in a dead man's skull. His skin, which is stretched across his bones like a drumhead, is not white, but a nasty yellow. His nose is so little worth talking about that you can't see it side-face; and the absence of that nose is a horrible thing to look at. All the hair he has is three or four long dark locks on his forehead and behind his ears."
In the first chapter he was found to be hanged in the third cellar between a flat and a set piece from Le roi de Lahore, right next to the entrance to the Phantom's torture chamber.
In Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 stage version, Buquet describes the Phantom's appearance to the ballet chorus and demonstrates the way to counter his "magical lasso" (the Punjab lasso, the Phantom's weapon for strangling victims). Cautioned by Madame Giry against speaking out, he is later found strangled and hanging from the stage rafters during a performance, throwing the audience into chaos.
In Nicholas Meyer's novel The Canary Trainer, Erik kills him as punishment for Buquet declaring his love to Christine Daaé. Irene Adler, currently performing Carmen at the Palais Garnier, hires Sherlock Holmes to investigate his death, beginning the series of events that pits Holmes against Erik.


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Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
 "Think of Me" ·
 "Angel of Music" ·
 "Little Lotte" ·
 "The Phantom of the Opera" ·
 "The Music of the Night" ·
 "I Remember" ·
 "Stranger Than You Dreamt It" ·
 "Magical Lasso" ·
 "Notes " ·
 "Prima Donna" ·
 "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" ·
 "Why Have You Brought Us Here?" ·
 "Raoul, I've Been There" ·
 "All I Ask of You"
 


Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
 "Down Once More" ·
 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


Other

"Learn to Be Lonely" ·
 "'Til I Hear You Sing"
 


Other
Gaston Leroux ·
 Andrew Lloyd Webber ·
 Ken Hill ·
 Maury Yeston ·
 Don Juan Triumphant ·
 Punjab lasso ·
 Adaptations ·
 Return of the Phantom ·
 Palais Garnier ·
 Lon Chaney (Sr.) ·
 "A Slight at the Opera"
 

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Meg Giry
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Meg Giry is one of the fictional characters from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera. In the story she is Madame Giry's oldest daughter.
In the novel she is described as having “eyes black as sloes, hair black as ink, a swarthy complexion and a poor little skin stretched over poor little bones. She is also, in the novel, portrayed as a child of around fifteen years old and adores having her own way and attention. Due to her mother's role as the keeper of Box Five, Meg occasionally acts as a source of information about the ghost to the other ballet girls. She is described by the author in the prologue as "the most charming star of our admirable corps de ballet."
In the Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation, she is older and her personality is much sweeter, caring and innocent showing genuine concern for Christine's claim of an Angel of Music (really the Phantom) coaching her. Meg is much more beautiful and curvaceous, having blonde hair and blue eyes.
Madame Giry is compelled to work for the Phantom because he left her a letter that told her that Meg (should she deserve it) would become Empress. Early in the novel, it is explained in the Prologue that Meg Giry, after the story's events, had indeed become the Baroness de Barbazac.
In contrast to the musical version, in the novel it is never mentioned that she is friends with Christine Daaé and the only reference she makes about Christine is when confronted with the news that Christine was singing in the opening Gala, she tells Count Phillipe de Chagny that it was impossible for her to have a "divine voice" let alone become a success, that "six months ago she sang like a rusty hinge".
In Susan Kay's novel Phantom she is mentioned briefly through Erik’s point of view as she is telling Christine of the Opera Ghost he listens to her story.

“Never you mind how I know I just do that’s all. We know a lot about the Opera Ghost, Ma and I, but it isn’t safe to talk about it here. And you’d better believe me for your own good- he doesn’t like people who don’t know how to show a proper respect, and when he’s angry terrible things happen.”
“What sort of things?” I heard real alarm enter the other voice now.
“Awful things!” said Meg cheerfully, “truly awful. The floor in our dressing room starts to run with blood...”
Up in box five I blinked in surprised amusement. That was a new one! Little Giry should be writing Gothic novels, not prancing around the stage dressed as a water nymph!

Contents  [hide]
1 The Phantom of the Opera
2 Sadie Montgomery's Phantom
3 Actresses
4 References
5 External links

The Phantom of the Opera[edit]
In the musical Meg Giry is the one who suggests to the theatre managers to put Christine in the leading role of the opera Hannibal once leading lady Carlotta Giudicelli is spooked by the Phantom's threats. Her mother, Madame Giry agrees and supports the decision. Normally she and Christine would be part of the ballet ensemble led by Madame Giry. At the end of Christine's performance, Christine confides in Meg in the musical number "Angel of Music" that she has been coached by a mysterious tutor who is calling her to him. Meg dismisses her claims, but after Christine's disappearance, comes to believe in the Phantom's powers, in part due to her mother's experiences with the Phantom as a young man.
At the end of the musical, Meg finds the Phantom's mask that he had used to cover his disfigured face resting on his chair in his abandoned underground lair.
According to the film, when she discovers the cause from the Phantom about the stage, she says, "He's here, the Phantom of the Opera."
Sadie Montgomery's Phantom[edit]
In a series of novels written by Sadie Montgomery that take place after Phantom of the Opera, Meg becomes the primary love interest of the Phantom as the two attempt to rebuild their lives. She later becomes his wife and the two have children.
Actresses[edit]
Janet Devenish (opening cast), and Heidi Ann O'Brien in West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical[1]
Elisa Heinsohn (opening cast), Catherine Ulissey, Tener Brown, Geralyn Del Corso, Jennifer Dawn Stillings, Joelle Gates, Heather McFadden, Jessica Bishop, Polly Baird, Kara Klein and Deanna Doyle in Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical. Paloma Garcia-Lee closing National tour Meg.
Brianne Kelly Morgan in the 2006 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular
Sharon Millerchip in the original 1990 Australian cast of The Phantom of the Opera and in the original Australian cast of Love Never Dies
Jennifer Ellison in the 2004 movie The Phantom of the Opera
Rachel Tucker
Summer Strallen in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Love Never Dies Original London Cast
Daisy Maywood in the 25th anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ POTO Onstage, phantom-media.info - accessed May 10, 2009
Paloma Garcia -Lee 2010 Youngest Meg Giry to date.
External links[edit]
http://www.literatureproject.com/phantom-opera/phantom-opera_0.htm


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Stage adaptations
Phantom of the Opera (1976) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1986) ·
 Phantom (1991) ·
 Love Never Dies (2010)
 

Film and television
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ·
 Song at Midnight (1937) ·
 Phantom of the Opera (1943) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1962) ·
 The Phantom of Hollywood (1974) ·
 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ·
 Opera (1987) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1989) ·
 Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1990) ·
 The Phantom Lover (1995) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1998) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (2004) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
 

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 The Persian ·
 Carlotta ·
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 Meg Giry ·
 Joseph Buquet
 

Songs



Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
 "Think of Me" ·
 "Angel of Music" ·
 "Little Lotte" ·
 "The Phantom of the Opera" ·
 "The Music of the Night" ·
 "I Remember" ·
 "Stranger Than You Dreamt It" ·
 "Magical Lasso" ·
 "Notes " ·
 "Prima Donna" ·
 "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" ·
 "Why Have You Brought Us Here?" ·
 "Raoul, I've Been There" ·
 "All I Ask of You"
 


Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
 "Down Once More" ·
 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


Other

"Learn to Be Lonely" ·
 "'Til I Hear You Sing"
 


Other
Gaston Leroux ·
 Andrew Lloyd Webber ·
 Ken Hill ·
 Maury Yeston ·
 Don Juan Triumphant ·
 Punjab lasso ·
 Adaptations ·
 Return of the Phantom ·
 Palais Garnier ·
 Lon Chaney (Sr.) ·
 "A Slight at the Opera"
 

 


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Madame Giry
The Phantom of the Opera character
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Miranda Richardson in the 2004 film version.

First appearance
The Phantom of the Opera
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Concierge
Children
Meg Giry (daughter)
Nationality
French
Madame Giry is a fictional character from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. She is a fairly intermediate character in the novel, although her role is much increased in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. This article will deal with both versions separately.
Madame Giry in the The Phantom of the Opera novel[edit]
Madame Giry is an aging woman who works as a concierge in the Place De L'Opera, who looks after patrons of the Opera, principally those who sit in the boxes.
One night, whilst working, Madame Giry hears a male voice in Box Five, which she knows to be empty. After recovering from her surprise, she learns to trust the "voice" and does odd jobs for the owner.
In the novel, it is never mentioned that she knows Christine Daae.
One of her little tasks is to collect the monthly "salary" of 20,000 francs owed to the "Opera Ghost." The Ghost instructs the managers of the Opera to hand Madame Giry a sealed envelope containing the money. The Ghost has provided her with a duplicate that contains play money; she knows nothing of the contents of either envelope. Placing the duplicate in Box Five, she slips the real one into the back pocket of a manager's dress-coat while he is wearing it. The Ghost later retrieves the money from this pocket when the managers are back in the office, using a trapdoor built into the floor.
The managers, Firmin Richard and Armand Moncharmin, remove Madame Giry from her post, finding her troublesome. There is an indication that they consider her to be the Ghost, but since the Ghost remains in the Opera Garnier after Madame Giry is removed, this is clearly an erroneous suggestion. As they search for a replacement concierge, they invite one candidate to sit in the audience for a performance. The chandelier falls that night, with the candidate as the only fatality. Following direct intervention by the Opera Ghost, Madame Giry is eventually reinstated into her role as concierge.
During a meeting with the managers, she explains that she once found a note in Box Five, written by the Ghost and listing a number of dancers who married into royalty, with her daughter Meg included as eventually becoming an empress. This note was enough to persuade Madame Giry to help the Ghost; later in life, Meg did become the Baroness de Castelot-Barbezac.
Madame Giry in the 1986 The Phantom of the Opera musical[edit]
In Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Madame Giry's role is changed to become a slightly younger woman who now works as a choreographer of the corps de ballet. She is shown holding a cane, which she uses to beat time with the music, but which she is rarely shown to use otherwise.
When the Opera Diva, Carlotta Giudicelli, walks out during rehearsals at the start of the show, it is Madame Giry who suggests Christine Daaé for the leading role. Later in the show, she receives one of the Phantom's "Notes" in both reprises of this tune. The first one she gives to M. Firmin, but the second she reads herself, being over-spoken by the Phantom part way through.
While there is very little history given between the Phantom and Madame Giry in the musical, a small scene was extended in the film version, showing a young Madame Giry rescuing the Phantom from a traveling circus and hiding him in the Opera House. This was taken from Frederick Forsyth's sequel, The Phantom of Manhattan. Even in the extended scene she does not give any indication why she is working for the Phantom (other than sympathy and her appreciation for his genius), unlike the reasons given in the novel.
In the 2004 film version of the musical (in which she is played by Miranda Richardson), Madame Giry is shown almost to be an accomplice of the Phantom, failing to notify people when he locks Christine's dressing room or when she spots him in the rafters during a scene. This collusion does not appear in the stage musical.
Regularly during the musical, Madame Giry tries to stop the Managers from doing any harm to the Phantom and defends him on several occasions. However, when Christine is abducted by the Phantom, Madame Giry gives up all hope of avoiding her past and helps Raoul de Chagny to the Phantom's Lair deep underground. She shows him the way, but will not accompany him into the catacombs. In this way, Andrew Lloyd Webber combines the roles of Madame Giry and the Persian from the novel. (In the novel, the Persian shows Raoul where the Opera Ghost resides - although he does accompany Raoul, unlike Madame Giry.) They both tell Raoul to hold his hand near his eyes, to protect from attack with punjab lasso.
Madame Giry is not amongst the crowd who enter the Phantom's Lair at the end of the musical, although her daughter Meg Giry is. In the film version, Richardson is seen playing a non-speaking character in several of the black-and-white scenes, which indicate events many years after the events in the story. Since Raoul uses a wheelchair in these scenes, it is wrongly assumed that she is meant to be an elder Meg, as opposed to Madame Giry. This theory has been disproved by both Joel Schumacher (director) and the Really Useful Group; it is in fact Madame Giry who appears in these scenes.[1]
In The Phantom of Manhattan, her first name is given as Antoinette.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ The Phantom FAQ online http://www.phantomoftheopera.com/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=4


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Stage adaptations
Phantom of the Opera (1976) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1986) ·
 Phantom (1991) ·
 Love Never Dies (2010)
 

Film and television
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ·
 Song at Midnight (1937) ·
 Phantom of the Opera (1943) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1962) ·
 The Phantom of Hollywood (1974) ·
 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ·
 Opera (1987) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1989) ·
 Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1990) ·
 The Phantom Lover (1995) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1998) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (2004) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
 

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 The Persian ·
 Carlotta ·
 Madame Giry ·
 Meg Giry ·
 Joseph Buquet
 

Songs



Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
 "Think of Me" ·
 "Angel of Music" ·
 "Little Lotte" ·
 "The Phantom of the Opera" ·
 "The Music of the Night" ·
 "I Remember" ·
 "Stranger Than You Dreamt It" ·
 "Magical Lasso" ·
 "Notes " ·
 "Prima Donna" ·
 "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" ·
 "Why Have You Brought Us Here?" ·
 "Raoul, I've Been There" ·
 "All I Ask of You"
 


Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
 "Down Once More" ·
 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


Other

"Learn to Be Lonely" ·
 "'Til I Hear You Sing"
 


Other
Gaston Leroux ·
 Andrew Lloyd Webber ·
 Ken Hill ·
 Maury Yeston ·
 Don Juan Triumphant ·
 Punjab lasso ·
 Adaptations ·
 Return of the Phantom ·
 Palais Garnier ·
 Lon Chaney (Sr.) ·
 "A Slight at the Opera"
 

 


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Carlotta (The Phantom of the Opera)
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Carlotta is a fictional character from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera.
In the novel, she is a minor character hailing from Spain. The first time that she is mentioned in the novel is during the chapter "The New Marguerite", where it is revealed that she could not perform at the ceremony for the former managers. Later in the novel, she is threatened by Erik that if she performs at the Opera House "a great misfortune will strike". She shrugs the warning off and performs anyway. When she does however croaking noises come out of her mouth and the chandelier comes crashing down. Ashamed, she hides from the public view for a few weeks, before making a return to the opera house.
In the 1943 film version, she is Mme. Biancarolli who has been drugged by the Phantom and murdered along with her maid when she tries to force him to take off his prop mask.
In Andrew Lloyd Webber's production, Carlotta (last name Giudicelli) is from Italy and is one of the major singing parts. The opera company's prima donna, she despises Christine Daaé and sees the younger woman as a threat to her job and Phantom´s courtesan, when Christine achieves prominence due to the Phantom's dirty tricks. Carlotta and tenor Ubaldo Piangi are lovers; she often turns to him for consolation when things go wrong, and she breaks down crying when his murdered body is discovered onstage. The film reveals that she likes poodles.
In the Lloyd Webber-Joel Schumacher 2004 film version, she was played by Minnie Driver. Due to Driver's lack of experience in opera, her singing voice was dubbed by opera singer Margaret Preece, although she lent her actual voice to the song "Learn to Be Lonely" during the end credits.
In Nicholas Meyer's novel The Canary Trainer, the characters of Carlotta and La Sorelli are combined into one, despite being mentioned as separate characters in the original novel. In Kim Newman's short story "Angels of Music" from the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology series, Carlotta is implied to be the ancestor of Bianca Castafiore from The Adventures of Tintin comic series.


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Stage adaptations
Phantom of the Opera (1976) ·
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 Phantom (1991) ·
 Love Never Dies (2010)
 

Film and television
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ·
 Song at Midnight (1937) ·
 Phantom of the Opera (1943) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1962) ·
 The Phantom of Hollywood (1974) ·
 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ·
 Opera (1987) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1989) ·
 Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1990) ·
 The Phantom Lover (1995) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1998) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (2004) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
 

Characters
Erik ·
 Christine Daaé ·
 Viscount Raoul de Chagny ·
 The Persian ·
 Carlotta ·
 Madame Giry ·
 Meg Giry ·
 Joseph Buquet
 

Songs



Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
 "Think of Me" ·
 "Angel of Music" ·
 "Little Lotte" ·
 "The Phantom of the Opera" ·
 "The Music of the Night" ·
 "I Remember" ·
 "Stranger Than You Dreamt It" ·
 "Magical Lasso" ·
 "Notes " ·
 "Prima Donna" ·
 "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" ·
 "Why Have You Brought Us Here?" ·
 "Raoul, I've Been There" ·
 "All I Ask of You"
 


Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
 "Down Once More" ·
 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


Other

"Learn to Be Lonely" ·
 "'Til I Hear You Sing"
 


Other
Gaston Leroux ·
 Andrew Lloyd Webber ·
 Ken Hill ·
 Maury Yeston ·
 Don Juan Triumphant ·
 Punjab lasso ·
 Adaptations ·
 Return of the Phantom ·
 Palais Garnier ·
 Lon Chaney (Sr.) ·
 "A Slight at the Opera"
 




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The Persian
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The Persian is a major character from the Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera. In the book he is the one who tells most of the background of Erik's history. He is referred to by Erik as the "daroga" (داروغه, Persian for "police-chief") and his memoirs are featured in five chapters of the novel.
He appears in the Susan Kay fan novel Phantom as a major character named Nadir. In the 1925 silent film The Phantom Of The Opera, his character was changed into a secret French policeman named Ledoux that had been studying Erik as the Phantom for months. He still helps and accompanies Raoul to rescue Christine. In the musical, he does not appear although aspects of his character are merged with Madame Giry's. For instance, Madame Giry shows Raoul where Erik lives, however, unlike the Persian, she does not accompany him to Erik's lair.
According to his account of himself in the novel, the Persian served as the chief of police (daroga) in the court of the Shah of Persia during the years that Erik was there. He refers to these times as "the rosy hours of Mazenderan". Being kindhearted, he helped Erik escape from Persia when the Shah-in-Shah ordered him executed, a trick that involved presenting a body washed up on the shore as Erik's. When news of the escape spread, the Shah-in-Shah punished the Persian by stripping him of his property and sending him into exile.
The Persian later traveled to Paris and took up living in a small, middle-class flat in the rue de Rivoli, across the street from the Tuileries, on the modest pension he received from the Persian government. He became known as a fixture of the Opera, considered an eccentric Persian who was allowed to wander backstage where he pleased. Research into Leroux's sources has revealed that Leroux based this description upon a real-life Persian who frequented the Paris Opera in the nineteenth century, whose home was in the rue de Rivoli and who was an mysterious exiled prince living on a pension from the British government.[1]
The character has a Persian servant whose name is Darius.
He is described in the novel as having an "ebony skin, with eyes of jade", and he wears a short astrakhan cap along with normal dress clothes. Gaston Leroux writes that he has "a noble and generous heart" and is very concerned for the fate of others.
Role in the Plot[edit]
The Persian first appears during Christine and Raoul's mad flight from the rooftops and warns them to go a different way. He next makes himself known after Christine's disappearance when he suddenly appears to Raoul and warns him, "Erik's secrets concern no one but himself!" Raoul ignores this warning by telling the commissary the whole story, but the Persian intercepts him and tells him that it is Erik, not Raoul's brother Philippe, who has carried off Christine. He leads Raoul through the passages of the Opera House to Christine's dressing room, where they go through the revolving door hidden in Christine's mirror and travel down through the passages under the Opera. Raoul is very confused as to the purpose of the long pistol the Persian has given him, as he is only instructed to keep his hand as if he were ready to fire - and that it does not even matter whether he is holding the weapon. The Persian eventually reveals that keeping the hand at the level of the eyes is a defense against the Punjab lasso. No matter how expert the thrower is, the lasso cannot be tightened around a neck with a hand blocking its path.
When they finally reach the back entrance to Erik's house, where Joseph Buquet was found hanged, they drop into what turns out to be Erik's torture-chamber. This chamber contains heat-reflecting mirrors that reach from floor to ceiling, with an iron tree in a corner, making its occupant feel like he or she is in an unending forest of trees made of iron. (Buquet had stumbled into this room and used a Punjab lasso hanging from a tree branch to commit suicide.)
The Persian finds a hidden exit that allows him and Raoul to drop into a still-lower room filled with gunpowder; unless Christine agrees to marry Erik, he will blow up the Opera House. She accepts this offer and water floods into the powder room, nearly drowning Raoul and the Persian.
The novel concludes some 30 years after these events, with the Persian - now old and sick, and still attended by Darius - telling how he and Raoul were saved from the flood by Erik, who allowed all three captives to go free.
Apocrypha[edit]
In Susan Kay's 1990 novel Phantom, the Persian's name is given as Nadir Khan. Distantly related to the Shah, he is assigned the office of chief of police in Mazenderan, where the shah and his court spend the summers. He is a widower, his wife Rookheeya having died while giving birth to their son Reza. Out of love for the memory of Rookheeya, Nadir has never had any other wife and occasionally avails himself of servant women rather than get remarried. He is very fond of Reza, who bears a great resemblance to his mother and is dying of Tay-Sachs Disease. Nadir has a great dislike of cats, and they seem to know it. Unfortunately, the shah owns a number of favorite cats and Nadir considers himself lucky to get off with imperial displeasure and a deep scratch on the ankle when he accidentally steps on a cat's tail. In an earlier adapted novel by Theadora Bruns his name is Oded.
In Nicholas Meyer's novel The Canary Trainer, the role of the Persian is largely taken by an incognito Sherlock Holmes.
Kim Newman's short stories "Angels of Music" and "The Mark of Kane" from the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology series are a parody of Charlie's Angels. In the stories, Erik is the equivalent of Charlie and the Persian takes the role of Bosley.


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Stage adaptations
Phantom of the Opera (1976) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1986) ·
 Phantom (1991) ·
 Love Never Dies (2010)
 

Film and television
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ·
 Song at Midnight (1937) ·
 Phantom of the Opera (1943) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1962) ·
 The Phantom of Hollywood (1974) ·
 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ·
 Opera (1987) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1989) ·
 Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1990) ·
 The Phantom Lover (1995) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1998) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (2004) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
 

Characters
Erik ·
 Christine Daaé ·
 Viscount Raoul de Chagny ·
 The Persian ·
 Carlotta ·
 Madame Giry ·
 Meg Giry ·
 Joseph Buquet
 

Songs



Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
 "Think of Me" ·
 "Angel of Music" ·
 "Little Lotte" ·
 "The Phantom of the Opera" ·
 "The Music of the Night" ·
 "I Remember" ·
 "Stranger Than You Dreamt It" ·
 "Magical Lasso" ·
 "Notes " ·
 "Prima Donna" ·
 "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" ·
 "Why Have You Brought Us Here?" ·
 "Raoul, I've Been There" ·
 "All I Ask of You"
 


Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
 "Down Once More" ·
 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


Other

"Learn to Be Lonely" ·
 "'Til I Hear You Sing"
 


Other
Gaston Leroux ·
 Andrew Lloyd Webber ·
 Ken Hill ·
 Maury Yeston ·
 Don Juan Triumphant ·
 Punjab lasso ·
 Adaptations ·
 Return of the Phantom ·
 Palais Garnier ·
 Lon Chaney (Sr.) ·
 "A Slight at the Opera"
 

References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Shah, Raj. "No Ordinary Skeleton: Unmasking the Secret Source of Gaston Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra", Forum for Modern Language Studies 50:1 (2014), 16-29 (17-18).
 


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Viscount Raoul de Chagny
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Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny

First appearance
The Phantom of the Opera
Created by
Gaston Leroux
Portrayed by
See "Other versions"
Information

Gender
Male
Occupation
Viscount
Title
Vicomte de Chagny
Family
Count Philbert de Chagny (father, deceased)
 Countess de Chagny-née de Moerogis de la Martynière (mother, died during childbirth)
 Count Philippe Georges Marie de Chagny (brother, original novel)
 Two sisters are mentioned once in the original novel.
Spouse(s)
Christine Daaé
Significant other(s)
Erik, the Phantom of the Opera
Nationality
French
Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera.


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2 Other versions 2.1 Film
2.2 Theater


Biography[edit]
Raoul de Chagny is a viscount and Christine Daaé's childhood friend. They first met when he was a young child when he went on vacation in Northern France. He meets up with her again after watching her performance at the former managers' retirement ceremony at the Palais Garnier. He reminds her that he is "the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf," which provokes her laughter. At first, Christine refuses to recognize Raoul, in fear that the "Angel of Music" would return to heaven. However, they become engaged later. Unknown to them, Erik, the "Angel of Music" of which Christine speaks (actually a musical genius who lives beneath the Opera), had been spying on them. On the day they were going to elope, Erik kidnaps her during a performance of Faust at the opera house. Raoul then, along with the mysterious man known only as The Persian, goes down into the cellars of the Opera in an attempt to rescue Christine. He and the Persian endure near-drowning and torture in a mirrored, super-heated chamber before Erik eventually relents due to Christine's willingness to sacrifice her happiness for Raoul's life. Raoul nearly commits suicide under torture, and, when Christine's marriage promise to Erik saves them, has to be put to bed by Erik because of a poison that has left him "limp as a rag."
In Gaston Leroux's novel, The Phantom of the Opera, Raoul is described as having a 'small, fair mustache, beautiful blue eyes, and a complexion like a girl's and an air of "just having left the women's apron-strings."' His elder brother and former guardian, Comte Philippe de Chagny, is a man of the world who indulges in dalliances with the Opera's ballerinas and is exasperated by his brother's attachment to "the little baggage" Christine. Philippe is later drowned by Erik when he goes looking for Raoul in the cellars of the Opera.
Raoul is described as 'having been petted by his two sisters and his aunt' and spoiled as a child, but he is very kind-hearted. Raoul has been to sea, and had plans to go on a rescue expedition to the North Pole before falling in love with Christine. Christine decided they would play at being engaged as was scheduled to leave the country, although she later begged him to take her away from the Phantom, no matter how much she resisted later. He is puzzled and sometimes angered by her allegiance to Erik, and thinks that she may be toying with his heart. He is the youngest member of his family, with an older brother (Philippe De Chagny) and two sisters already married. However, in the film adaptation of the Lloyd Webber musical, he mentions his still living parents (who had died long before the events of the novel) because if his parents were dead he would no longer be the Viscount, but the Count himself.
Other versions[edit]
Film[edit]
1925 - The Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by Norman Kerry
1943 - Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by Edgar Barrier
1962 - The Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by Edward de Souza
1983 - The Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by Michael York
1990 - The Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by Adam Storke (as Comte Philippe de Chagny, in Raoul's role)
1991 - The Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by Christopher Rath
1998 - The Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by Andrea di Stephano
2004 - The Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by Patrick Wilson
Theater[edit]
Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by various actors; the first actor to portray him beginning with the 1984 revival was James Saxon.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera - portrayed by various actors, originally Steve Barton.
Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's musical Phantom replaced Raoul with his older brother Phillipe, a Count.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies - Portrayed originally by Joseph Millson and then David Thaxton until the show's closure in London in August 2011.
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall- Portrayed by Hadley Fraser.


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Books
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 The Phantom of Manhattan (1999)
 

Stage adaptations
Phantom of the Opera (1976) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1986) ·
 Phantom (1991) ·
 Love Never Dies (2010)
 

Film and television
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ·
 Song at Midnight (1937) ·
 Phantom of the Opera (1943) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1962) ·
 The Phantom of Hollywood (1974) ·
 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ·
 Opera (1987) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1989) ·
 Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1990) ·
 The Phantom Lover (1995) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (1998) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera (2004) ·
 The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
 

Characters
Erik ·
 Christine Daaé ·
 Viscount Raoul de Chagny ·
 The Persian ·
 Carlotta ·
 Madame Giry ·
 Meg Giry ·
 Joseph Buquet
 

Songs



Phantom (1986) Act 1

"A Rehearsal for Hannibal" ·
 "Think of Me" ·
 "Angel of Music" ·
 "Little Lotte" ·
 "The Phantom of the Opera" ·
 "The Music of the Night" ·
 "I Remember" ·
 "Stranger Than You Dreamt It" ·
 "Magical Lasso" ·
 "Notes " ·
 "Prima Donna" ·
 "Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh" ·
 "Why Have You Brought Us Here?" ·
 "Raoul, I've Been There" ·
 "All I Ask of You"
 


Phantom (1986) Act 2

"Masquerade" ·
 "Why So Silent?" ·
 "We Have All Been Blind" ·
 "Twisted Every Way" ·
 "A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant ·
 "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" ·
 "Wandering Child" ·
 "Bravo, Monsieur!" ·
 "Music from Don Juan Triumphant" ·
 "The Point of No Return" ·
 "Down Once More" ·
 "Track Down This Murderer"
 


Other

"Learn to Be Lonely" ·
 "'Til I Hear You Sing"
 


Other
Gaston Leroux ·
 Andrew Lloyd Webber ·
 Ken Hill ·
 Maury Yeston ·
 Don Juan Triumphant ·
 Punjab lasso ·
 Adaptations ·
 Return of the Phantom ·
 Palais Garnier ·
 Lon Chaney (Sr.) ·
 "A Slight at the Opera"
 

 


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Christine Daaé
The Phantom of the Opera character
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Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera, alongside The Phantom (Lon Chaney).

Created by
Gaston Leroux
Portrayed by
See "Actresses"
Information

Gender
Female
Occupation
Singer
Family
Madame Valérius (adoptive mother)
 Gustave Daaé (father)
Spouse(s)
Viscount Raoul de Chagny
Significant other(s)
Erik, the Phantom of the Opera
Nationality
Swedish
Christine Daaé is a fictional character and the female protagonist of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. She is a young singer with whom the main character Erik, the Phantom of the Opera falls in love.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character history 1.1 Lifetime
1.2 Father's name
2 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera & Love Never Dies 2.1 The Phantom of the Opera
2.2 Love Never Dies
3 Basis
4 Actresses
5 References
6 External links

Character history[edit]
Lifetime[edit]
Christine Daaé was born in a town near Uppsala, Sweden.
Her mother dies when she is six. Raised by her father, they are travelling to fairs where he plays the violin and she sings. They are discovered at one of these fairs by Professor Valérius, who takes them to Gothenburg and then to Paris, providing for Christine's education.
Christine is extremely close to her father, who tells her Scandinavian fairy-tales; a tale of the "Angel of Music" is her favourite. Christine enters the Paris Conservatoire and trains for four years to become a professional singer to please her father and Mamma Valérius, the bedridden wife of the late Professor. However, by the end of the four years, she has lost all passion for singing.
When Christine arrives at the Opera Garnier, she is described as 'sounding like a rusty hinge', but one person finds the beauty hidden in her tone. When Erik begins to tutor her, he tells her that he is the "Angel of Music" of whom her father had spoken (Erik tells her this because he has fallen in love with her). She believes him, and he inspires her soul back into her voice. Christine debuts at a gala at the opera, after the singer Carlotta falls ill and she is asked to take her place. Christine's singing is described as "seraphic".
Christine becomes torn between her loyalty for her mentor Erik, and her love for her childhood friend Viscount Raoul de Chagny.
In the Lofficier translation of the novel, it is stated that Christine is 15 years old. However, this is a mistranslation of a passage which says her heart was 'as pure as that of a 15 year old.' The evidence of Christine's childhood friendship with Raoul, and her studies at the Paris Conservatoire, put her age at 20.
Father's name[edit]
Christine has a father who loved her very much. In the Sarah Brightman music video version of "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again", his name is revealed to be "Charles". In the Andrew Lloyd Webber version of the story, his name is "Gustave"; in the novel Christine refers to him as "Daddy Daaé".
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera & Love Never Dies[edit]
The Phantom of the Opera[edit]
See: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
Christine Daaé, a chorus girl, becomes the object of obsession, passion, and love for the mysterious Phantom of the Opera, who becomes her mentor. With his help, she is chosen to replace the company's prima donna. When she falls in love with her childhood sweetheart, Raoul, the Phantom kidnaps Christine in a jealous rage, and drags her down to his lair. She is forced to choose between the Phantom and Raoul, but her compassion for the Phantom moves him to free them both and allow them to flee. At the end of the film version of this show, her gravemark says that she was born in 1854 and died in 1917.
2004 Film
Although this character mainly follows the plot of the musical, her age is altered to that of a teenager. Her gravemark says that she was born in 1854, and at the beginning the movie shows that the movie takes place in 1870, so that makes her 15 or 16 years old.
Love Never Dies[edit]
See: Love Never Dies (musical)
Ten years later after bearing her son Gustave de Chagny, Christine in about her 30s travels to Coney Island with Raoul and the little boy joins them on their trip.
Basis[edit]
Several researchers claim the character Christine Daaé was based upon the real-life Swedish-born opera star Christina Nilsson, also known as Kristina Nilsson or Christine Nilsson.[1][2][3][4][5] This claim is unverified by any official source, but it is supported by several biographical similarities between Nilsson and Daaé. The most obvious is that Nilsson, like Daaé, was born in Sweden and trained in Paris.
Actresses[edit]
The first actress to portray Christine Daaé was Aud Egede-Nissen in the 1916 German silent version by Ernst Matray, Das Gespenst im Opernhaus or Das Phantom der Oper, also starring Nils Olaf Chrisander.
Mary Philbin played Christine in the 1925 American silent version by Rupert Julian, The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, Sr.
Susanna Foster played Christine DuBois in the 1943 Technicolor version, Phantom of the Opera, starring Claude Rains.
Heather Sears played Christine Charles in the 1962 version of The Phantom of the Opera.
Jessica Harper took the role in the 1974 rock-musical version, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise.
Jane Seymour played Christine in the 1983 TV movie version.
Christina Collier played her in Ken Hill's camp-classical musical version in 1984.
Patti Cohenour debuted the role in the 1986 Broadway Production alongside Sarah Brightman. Patti was the first American Christine Daaé. Patti Cohenour went on to reprise the role for the First Canadian National Tour.
Sarah Brightman debuted the role in the 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Glory Crampton played her in Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's 1990 musical Phantom.
Jill Schoelen played Christine Day in Dwight H. Little's 1989 film version.
Rebecca Caine debuted the role in the Canadian production (1989) and featured on the Canadian Cast album.
Teri Polo took the role in the 1990 television miniseries version.
American soprano Janet Marie Chvatal[6] performed the role in 1991-1992 in the German version of Das Phantom der Oper in Vienna, Austria.[7]
Asia Argento played her in the 1998 film by her father Dario Argento.
Claudia Cota (es) played her twice in the Phantom of the Opera (musical 2000) by Morris Gilbert in Mexico and Player her on Phantom of the Opera (musical 2009) in Argentina by Harold Prince.
Emmy Rossum played her in the 2004 film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Sierra Boggess first played Christine in the 2006 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular and the 25th Anniversary production of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011. In 2011 she also originated the role in Love Never Dies. She is currently playing Christine on Broadway.
Gina Beck previously played the role in London.
Jennifer Hope Wills played Christine on Broadway and on a Canadian tour of the musical.
Anna O'Byrne played Christine in The Phantom of the Opera in 2009 and in the Australian production of Love Never Dies.
Annika Johansson played Christine in The Really Useful Group on tour in 2010.[8]
Fiona Bell played Christine at Stanwell School, Penarth, Wales in the UK Schools Premier – December 2011
Katie Hall played the role in the new UK tour, after having been understudy and alternate in the London production.
Shona Evans played Christine at Treorchy Comprehensive School, in the UK Wales Premier – February 2012
Kelsey Murphy played Christine in the Walled Lake Western production of The Phantom of the Opera - November 2011
Mary Michael Patterson played Christine in the broadway production of <The Phantom of the Opera> - 2014
Julia Udine is currently playing Christine in the North American tour of the broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera - 2014
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Jussi Björling Museum: Four Great Nordic Singers
2.Jump up ^ NYSL Library Notes: Status: In Cataloging (1 October 2008)
3.Jump up ^ Linton, Elizabeth Lynn. The Rebel of the Family p. 362, ISBN 1-55111-293-0
4.Jump up ^ Hollingsworth, Amy Gifts of Passage: What the Dying Tell Us with the Gifts They Leave Behind p. 38, ISBN 0-8499-1920-7
5.Jump up ^ Eriksson, Lill. Förtrollad av Fantomen för snart 100:e gången (Swedish) Eventnews.se
6.Jump up ^ http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2010/10/janet_chvatal_comes_home_with.html
7.Jump up ^ Program book for the Vienna Production of Phantom of the Opera (November, 1990 / 2. Publication October, 1991) Programmbuch zur Aufführung des Musicals Das Phantom der Oper
8.Jump up ^ Ellen Robertson, Face to Face interview with Annika Johansson on KACV-TV Amarillo Channel 8 (PBS), 11 May 2010 (accessed 1 June 2010).
External links[edit]
Leroux, Gaston; Wolf, Leonard (editor) (2004). The Phantom of the Opera. I Books. ISBN 0-7434-9836-4.
The Phantom of the Opera free e-book, Project Gutenberg
"Phantom of the Opera FAQ". How old are the Phantom and Christine?. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
"Phantom Appreciation Society". a history of. Retrieved 13 March 2005.[dead link]


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Erik (The Phantom of the Opera)
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Erik (The Phantom of the Opera)
The Phantom of the Opera character
Gaston Leroux - Le Fantôme de l'Opéra.jpg
Illustration of Erik, The Phantom of the Opera, on the cover of Gaston Leroux's 1920 French book edition.

First appearance
Le Fantôme De L'Opèra (The Phantom of the Opera)
Created by
Gaston Leroux
Portrayed by
See "Performers"
Information

Aliases
The Phantom of the Opera, Opera Ghost, The Angel of Music, the Red Death, The Trapdoor Lover, The Man's Voice, Le Mort Vivant
Gender
Male
Occupation
Maestro, impresario, architect, illusionist, ventriloquist, contractor
Significant other(s)
Christine Daaé
Nationality
French
Erik (also known as The Phantom of the Opera, commonly referred to as The Phantom) is the title character from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. He is also the protagonist and antagonist of many film adaptations of the novel, notably the 1925 film adaptation starring Lon Chaney, Sr., and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character history
2 Variations of Erik's story 2.1 Phantom
2.2 Yeston and Kopit
2.3 The Canary Trainer
2.4 The Angel of the Opera
3 Erik's deformity
4 Performers 4.1 Film
4.2 Television
4.3 Theatre 4.3.1 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

5 Popular culture
6 References

Character history[edit]
In the original novel, few details are given regarding Erik's past, although there is no shortage of hints and implications throughout the book. Erik himself laments the fact that his mother was horrified by his appearance (causing him to run away from home at a young age), and that his father, a master mason, never saw him. It is also revealed that "Erik" was not, in fact, his birth name, but one that was given or found "by accident", as Erik himself says within the work. Leroux sometimes calls him "the man's voice"; Erik also refers to himself as "The Opera Ghost", "The Angel of Music", and attends a masquerade as the Red Death (evidently Erik is familiar with Poe's famous short story). Most of the character's history is revealed by a mysterious figure, known through most of the novel as The Persian or the Daroga, who had been a local police chief in Persia, following Erik to Paris; other details are discussed in the novel's epilogue e.g. his birthplace is given as a small town outside of Rouen, France.
Born hideously deformed, he is a "subject of horror" for his family and as a result, he runs away as a young boy and falls in with a band of Gypsies, making his living as an attraction in freak shows, where he is known as "le mort vivant" ("the living death"). During his time with the tribe, Erik becomes a great illusionist, magician, and ventriloquist. His reputation for these skills and his unearthly singing voice spreads quickly, and one day a fur trader mentions him to the Shah of Persia.
The Shah orders the Persian to fetch Erik and bring him to the palace.The Shah-in-Shah commissions Erik, who proves himself a gifted architect, to construct an elaborate palace in Mazenderan. The edifice is designed with so many trap doors and secret rooms that not even the slightest whisper could be considered private. The design itself carries sound to a myriad of hidden locations, so that one never knew who might be listening. At some point under the Shah's employment, Erik is also a political assassin, using a unique noose referred to as the Punjab Lasso. The Persian dwells on the vague horrors that existed at Mazenderan rather than going in depth into the actual circumstances involved.
The Shah, pleased with Erik's work and determined that no one else should have such a palace, orders Erik blinded. Thinking that Erik could still make another palace even without his eyesight, the Shah orders Erik's execution. It is only by the intervention of the daroga (the Persian) that Erik escapes. Erik then goes to Constantinople and is employed by its ruler, helping build certain edifices in the Yildiz-Kiosk, among other things. However, he has to leave the city for the same reason he left Mazenderan: he knows too much. He also seems to have traveled to Southeast Asia, since he claims to have learned to breathe underwater using a hollow reed from the "Tonkin pirates". By this time Erik is tired of his nomadic life and wants to "live like everybody else". For a time he works as a contractor, building "ordinary houses with ordinary bricks". He eventually bids on a contract to help with the construction of the Palais Garnier, commonly known as the Paris Opéra.
During the construction he is able to make a sort of playground for himself within the Opera House, creating trapdoors and secret passageways throughout every inch of the theatre. He even builds himself a house in the cellars of the Opera where he could live far from man's cruelty. Erik has spent twenty years composing a piece entitled Don Juan Triumphant. In one chapter after he takes Christine to his lair, she asks him to play her a piece from his masterwork. He refuses and says, "I will play you Mozart, if you like, which will only make you weep; but my Don Juan, Christine, burns." Eventually, after she has wrenched off his mask and seen his deformed face, he begins to play it. Christine says that at first it seemed to be "one great awful sob," but then became alert to its nuances and power, as the music was able to convey to her the misery he has endured throughout his life and the hope he finally felt for love.
Upon its completion, he originally plans to go to his bed (which is a coffin) and "never wake up," but by the final chapters of the novel, (during which Erik kidnaps Christine right from the stage during a performance), Erik expresses his wish to marry Christine and live a comfortable bourgeois life after his work has been completed. He has stored a massive supply of gunpowder under the Opera, and, should she refuse his offer, plans to detonate it. When she acquiesces to his desires in order to save herself, her lover Raoul (who, aided by the Persian, went looking for Christine and fell into Erik's torture chamber), and the denizens of the Opera, we find out that his part of the bargain was to take the Persian and Raoul above ground.
He does so with the Persian, but Raoul was kept "a hostage" and was "locked up comfortably, properly chained" in the dungeon under the opera. When he returns, he finds Christine waiting for him, like "a real living wife" and he swore she tilted her forehead toward him, and he kissed it. Then he says he was so happy that he fell at her feet, crying, and she cries with him, calling him "poor, unhappy Erik" and taking his hand. At this point, he is "just a poor dog ready to die for her" and he returns to her the ring she had lost and said that she was free to go and marry Raoul.
Erik frees Raoul and he and Christine leave. But before they do, Erik makes Christine promise that when he dies she will come back and bury him. Then she kisses Erik's forehead. Erik dies three weeks later, but not before he goes to visit the Persian and tells him everything, and promises to send him Erik's dearest possessions: the papers that Christine wrote about everything that had happened with her "Angel of Music" and some things that had belonged to her. Christine keeps her promise and returns to the Opera to bury Erik and place the plain gold band he had given her on his finger. Leroux claims that a skeleton bearing such a ring was later unearthed in the Opera cellars. [1]
Variations of Erik's story[edit]
Phantom[edit]
Many different versions of Erik's life are told through other adaptations such as films, television shows, books, and musicals. A popular of adapted books is the Susan Kay novel Phantom, the fictional in-depth story of Erik from the time of his birth to the end of his life at the Paris Opera House.
For the most part, Kay's novel stays in context with Erik's life history as laid down by Leroux, however Kay (as explained in her Author's Note) changes and shapes the character to match her own vision, influenced by other adaptations besides the original. In addition, the ending/resolution is quite different from Leroux's. The story follows Erik through his entire life, starting with the night of his birth, and is told from different viewpoints throughout the novel (Erik's mother, Erik, Nadir/the Persian, Christine, and Raoul). Kay places the highest priority on portraying romantic aspects of Erik's life. He falls in love twice throughout the novel, but neither of these occasions truly end happily.
Yeston and Kopit[edit]
The theatrical songwriting team of Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit created a musical based on the story which investors backed out of after Webber's version became a huge hit. Erik is portrayed as much kinder and more sympathetic, and also with more of a sense of humor. His mother was a singer in the Opera and, having discovered that she was pregnant with an illegitimate child, swallowed poison. This is the reason for his disfigurement. He was born within the catacombs of the opera house and lived there his entire life. His mother died when he was a young child. His father, Gerard Carriere, was the manager and kept him safe all that time. Over the years, Erik became the creative driving force for the opera company. No artistic decision was made without Carriere seeking his approval.
It is implied that the main reason for Erik's attraction to Christine is that her astonishing voice and beauty remind him of his mother, the only person who was ever able to look at him with happiness. Yet when he finally brings himself to show Christine his face, she runs away. Christine feels intensely remorseful afterwards and when he is eventually cornered by the police, at the end of the play, she takes off his mask and smiles.
This storyline was also the basis for the 1990 miniseries starring Charles Dance, Teri Polo and Burt Lancaster as Carriere.
The Canary Trainer[edit]
In Nicholas Meyer's novel The Canary Trainer, Sherlock Holmes develops several theories as to the Phantom's identity. His first idea is that he is an employee of the Opera; however, when the Phantom's knowledge of the Opera becomes evident, Holmes then believes that he is Charles Garnier, having faked his own death. When Garnier's corpse is identified, Holmes then theorizes that the Phantom was Edouard LaFosse, the (fictional) assistant of Garnier who designed much of the Opera's interior and who allegedly died after a building collapse. Holmes theorizes that he did not die, but was merely disfigured and therefore took to hiding in the Opera. However, when Holmes finally confronts the Phantom, he claims that he cannot speak without his mask, as his mother forced him to wear it whenever he wished to speak as a child, and he is not Edouard LaFosse. Holmes therefore admits that he is not sure how true any of the theories or claims of the Phantom's identity are. The Phantom never provides a given name in the novel; he only tells Christine that his name is "Nobody" (a reference to the name Odysseus gave Polyphemus in the Odyssey).
Regardless of his identity, the Phantom in The Canary Trainer is much more unhinged and bloodthirsty than in the original novel or play. For example, when killing Madame Giry's replacement with the chandelier, he kills twenty-six others as well, just to ensure that he kills his main target.
The Angel of the Opera[edit]
In Sam Siciliano's novel The Angel of the Opera, Sherlock Holmes is brought in to solve the case of the Opera Ghost, and both Erik's and Holmes's stories unfold through the eyes of Holmes's assistant, Henri Vernier. Siciliano places Holmes and Vernier at several of the crucial scenes in Erik and Christine's relationship, and draws parallels between Erik and Holmes, identifying both as men who have sociopathic tendencies, but inside whom emotions run deep. Holmes identifies/sympathizes with Erik so much that after Christine leaves him, Holmes brings him back to England. One of the first people that Erik meets on his arrival is a blind girl with a fondness for music.
Erik's deformity[edit]
In the original novel, Erik is described as corpse-like and is referred to as having a "death's-head" (human skull) throughout the story. He has no nose; eyes that are sunken so deep that all is seen are two skull-like eye sockets except when his golden eyes glow in the dark; skin that is yellow and tightly stretched across his bones; and only a few wisps of ink-black hair behind his ears and on his forehead. (His mouth is never described in as much detail, but is referred to as a 'lipless' 'dead mouth' by Christine, and Erik loosely acknowledges that his mouth/lips are abnormal later on when lifting up his mask to display ventriloquism.) He is described as extremely thin and his clothes hang on a "skeleton." Christine graphically describes his cold, bony hands, which also smell of death. Erik woefully describes himself to Christine as a corpse who is "built up with death from head to foot." So, unlike almost all adaptations, the original Erik's deformity goes beyond his face and affects his entire body. Erik was born with this deformity, was exhibited as 'le mort vivant' in freak shows and even sometimes plays up his macabre appearance, such as sleeping in a coffin and dressing up as the Red Death for the masked ball.
Lon Chaney, Sr.'s characterization of Erik in the silent film (released in 1925) remains closest to the book in content, in that Erik's face resembles a skull with an elongated nose slit and protruding, crooked teeth. In this version, Erik is said to have had his disfigurement from birth. Chaney was a master make-up artist and was considered avant garde for creating and applying Erik's facial makeup design himself. It is said he kept it secret until the first day of filming. The result was allegedly so frightening to the ladies of the time, theaters showing the movie were cautioned to keep smelling salts on hand for the women who fainted in shock.
Several movies based on the novel also vary the deformities (or in the case of Dario Argento's film, the lack thereof, where Erik was a normal, handsome man raised by rats). In Universal's 1943 adaptation, a poor musician tries to publish his music, and then wrongly accuses the publisher Maurice Pleyel of trying to steal his music. The Phantom character then murders the publisher by strangulation and tries to retrieve his music, only to have his face burned by having etching acid thrown in his face by the publisher's assistant, Georgette Desjardins. The rock opera Phantom of the Paradise has Winslow (the Erik character) get his head caught in a record-press and Robert Englund's horror-version has him selling his soul to Satan and having his face mutilated as a result (this version also has a gruesome variation on the mask, in which Erik is sewing flesh to his face)
In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation (taking a tip from Universal's 1943 spin on the story), only half of Erik's face is deformed (thus the famous half-mask often associated with Erik's appearance.) His show was originally planned to have a full mask and full facial disfigurement, but when the director, Hal Prince, realized that it would make expression onstage very difficult, they halved the mask. The logo featuring a full mask was publicized before the change. The deformity in the musical includes a gash on the right side of his partly balding head with exposed skull tissue, an elongated right nostril, a missing right eyebrow, swollen lips, different colored eyes, and a wrinkled, warped right cheek. The lyrics in the Phantom's final scene in his lair have sometimes been interpreted to mean that the deformities affect his ability to engage in intercourse since having been questioned by Christine if she had been taken to become "Prey for [his] lust of flesh?" he responds "That fate, which condemns me to wallow in blood/Has also denied me the joys of the flesh." However this has been clarified; the line instead refers to the Phantom's lack of sexual experience as a result of his face. It originally took roughly four hours per performance to put the prosthetics on in the original London productions. On Broadway, it was cut to roughly three. More than one Phantom has described make-up disasters onstage. Michael Crawford recounts a story where he pulled away from the kiss at the end only to see that "[his] lower lip was now hanging off Sarah [Brightman]'s face!". To cover the flub, he pulled her back for another kiss and "took back the lips" and kept that side of his head turned away from the audience.
In the 2004 film adaptation, Erik's makeup was made to look much less gruesome. Film Critic Roger Ebert commented that he thought Gerard Butler was made to be too good-looking for the film, and that his masks were more of a fashion accessory than an attempt to hide his deformities.
Performers[edit]



Lon Chaney, Sr. as Erik, The Phantom, in Universal's 1925 silent film version of The Phantom of the Opera.
Film[edit]
Onscreen, Erik has often been cast as a tragic hero but also a tragic villain, depending on the film's point of view.
Lon Chaney, Sr. in the 1925 American silent version by Rupert Julian, The Phantom of the Opera, starring Mary Philbin as Christine Daaé.
Claude Rains in the 1943 Technicolor version of Phantom of the Opera.
Herbert Lom in the 1962 version of The Phantom of the Opera.
William Finley in the 1974 rock-musical version of The Phantom of the Opera, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise.
Robert Englund in the 1989 horror film version of The Phantom of the Opera.
Julian Sands in Dario Argento's adaptation in 1998.
Gerard Butler in the movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage version The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Television[edit]
Maximilian Schell in the 1983 television series.
Charles Dance in the 1990 NBC two-part television miniseries.
Theatre[edit]
Edward Petherbridge, of the 1976 English play version.
Peter Straker in Ken Hill's musical version in 1984.
David Staller in his own camp-musical stage version.
Richard White in Yeston/Kopit's stage version.
Andrew Lloyd Webber musical[edit]
See main list: The Phantom of the Opera
Michael Crawford in the original cast of the 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Robert Guillaume
Colm Wilkinson (1989)
Anthony Warlow in Australian performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical (1990, 2007)
Rob Guest, who subsequent to Anthony Warlow, played the role a record 2,289 times in the Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical.[1]
David Shannon and Stephen John Davies
Hugh Panaro
Howard McGillin the longest running Phantom The Phantom of the Opera
Anthony Crivello in Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular (2006-2012)
John Owen-Jones The West End Production
Ted Keegan
Steve Barton played the role as well as the original Raoul in London
Grant Norman played the role in London's West End
Brad Little
Gary Mauer
Davis Gaines
Mark Jacoby
Paul Stanley on stage in Toronto. (1999)
Kevin Gray
David Gaschen
Robert Finlayson
Peter Karrie
Ethan Freeman
Ciaran Sheehah
John Cudia
Thomas Borchert
Thomas James O'leary one of the longest running phantoms
Zoltan Miller
Earl Carpenter played the role in the London West End.
Matthew Cammelle
Miles Braithwaite played the role at Stanwell School, Penarth, in the UK Schools Premier - December 2011
Luke Davies played Phantom at Treorchy Comprehensive School in the UK Wales Premier - February 2012
Ramin Karimloo played both Raoul and The Phantom in the London West End, as well as The Phantom in the West End production of Love Never Dies
Ben Lewis in Love Never Dies Australian production - May 2011
Geronimo Rauch the current London West End Phantom
Peter Jöback
Norm Lewis the current Broadway Phantom
Popular culture[edit]
The heavy metal band Iced Earth has a song called "The Phantom Opera Ghost" on an album titled "Horror Show"
The heavy metal band Iron Maiden has a song called "The Phantom of the Opera"
The symphonic metal group Nightwish performs a cover of 'The Phantom of the Opera', the title song in Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical.
In Count Duckula, the episode "A Fright At The Opera" parodies The Phantom of the Opera.
Universal Studios' attraction, Beetlejuice's Rock n' Roll Graveyard Revue, features the Phantom of the Opera as a rock star.
In MAD Magazine's October 1990 issue, at the end of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles parody, "Teenrage Moolah Nitwit Turtles", The Phantom of the Opera, Ed Norton (a sewer worker from The Honeymooners), and The Beast from the 1988 series Beauty and the Beast, nag the Turtles about their making the sewers noisy and messy.
The 1988 movie, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School shows The Phantom as being more like a ghost, and his daughter, Phantasma, plays the organ.
In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Phantom appearance is the member of Les Hommes Mystérieux, an analogue of the League led by Fantômas.
R.L. Stine's Goosebumps book series includes The Phantom of the Auditorium, where junior high school students put on the play, only to meet a mysterious student and have things go wrong.
In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series, the episode "The Phantomato of the Opera" shows the Phantomato, a disfigured tomato, rescuing Tara Boumdeay from the Killer Tomatoes, and she pulls his mask off as he plays for her.
In Tiny Toon Adventures, "Toon TV", the video for "It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)", shows Buster Bunny as the Phantom and Babs Bunny as Christine as she takes off his mask.
In The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Wedding", after Elizabeth Hoover and Seymour Skinner are invited to Lisa Simpon's wedding, they lament about the fate of Martin Prince, and he is shown dressed as the Phantom, with half his face disfigured, playing an organ in the school basement.
The Phantom appeared in the Big Bad Beetleborgs episode "Phantom of Hillhurst." He is depicted as an old friend of Flabber.
In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Something Smells", SpongeBob plays dramatic music on an organ while wearing a cape, only to turn around and reveal his mask to be Groucho glasses.
In the MMORPG AdventureQuest Worlds, the proxy for the 6th Lord of Chaos named Dischordia is dressed like the Phantom of the Opera.
In the Monster High franchise, it is known that the Phantom himself teaches a music class. His fictitious daughter, Operetta, is also in attendance at the school.
The Japanese rock band, B'Z has a song called 'love phantom'. At the end of the song, it features a woman singing like Christine did at the end of the song 'Phantom of the Opera'
In the Disney show Phineas and Ferb, viewers see Phineas as the Phantom on the episode "Roller Coaster: The Musical!" When he is singing the song "Hey Ferb". Viewers will also see him in a half-faced mask, with a cape and clothes like the Phantom's in the 2004 movie production, as he and Ferb are riding on a small boat(Much like the one in the mirror) through a dark tunnel.
In Happy Feet Two, Mumble's son is named Erik, and sings opera.
In an episode of Glee, Kurt initially intends to sing "Music of the Night" for his NYADA audition. He begins his audition with the song playing Erik and Rachel playing Christine. Halfway through, he has a change of heart decides to sing a song that represents him better.
In an episode of Parks and Recreation, Leslie is asked to describe her ideal partner for her profile on a dating website. She proceeds to describe her ideal man as "dark, mysterious, and he can sing, and he plays the organ." She is told by her friend that she "just described the phantom of the opera", but seems interested none the less.
References[edit]
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004 soundtrack)
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The Phantom of the Opera

Soundtrack album by Various

Released
November 23, 2004
Genre
Musical
Label
Sony Music
Producer
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Various chronology

 The Phantom of the Opera
 (2004) The Phantom of the Opera Special 2-Disc Deluxe Edition
 (2004)

The Phantom of the Opera is the soundtrack to the Andrew Lloyd Webber film-adaptation of the musical, The Phantom of the Opera. There are two versions released, the normal 14 track release and a 2 disc deluxe release.


Contents  [hide]
1 Track listing 1.1 Normal Release
1.2 Two disc deluxe edition
2 Personnel
3 Accomplishments and certifications
4 Chart positions
5 References

Track listing[edit]
In addition to the listed tracks, versions of "The Phantom of the Opera" remixed by Junior Vasquez were made available to iTunes customers who purchased the expanded edition.[1]
Normal Release[edit]

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Two disc deluxe edition[edit]

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Personnel[edit]
Vocals: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson
 Studio Assistants: Aaron Fessel, Cesar Ramirez
Producer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Casting: Chris Overton, Anne Skilbeck
Mixing: Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson
Photography: Alex Bailey

Accomplishments and certifications[edit]
In 2006, The Phantom of the Opera won the RIAJ's Japan Gold Disc Award for "Best Soundtrack Album of the Year."[2] Chart-wise, the album performed fairly well, reaching the top position of Billboard's soundtracks chart[3] as well as the sixteenth position on the Top 200 chart.[4] It was also certified Platinum in the US[5] and Gold in the UK and Greece.[6][7]
Chart positions[edit]

Chart (2005-2006)
Peak
 position

Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[8] 24
Australian Albums (ARIA)[9] 11
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[10] 8
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[11] 10
French Albums (SNEP)[12] 66
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[13] 33
New Zealand Albums (Recorded Music NZ)[14] 15
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[15] 18
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[16] 11
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[17] 58
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[18] 34
UK Albums (OCC)[19] 40
US Billboard 200[20] 71
US Top Internet Albums (Billboard)[20] 71
US Top Soundtracks (Billboard)[20] 5

References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Phantom Of the Opera
2.Jump up ^ Recording Industry Association of Japan | Related Data
3.Jump up ^ Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack Billboard Stats
4.Jump up ^ Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales
5.Jump up ^ "American certifications – Phantom Of The Opera". Recording Industry Association of America.
6.Jump up ^ "British album certifications – Phantom Of The Opera". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Phantom Of The Opera in the field Search. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Click Go
7.Jump up ^ "Greek Albums Chart". IFPI Greece. March 3, 2005. Archived from the original on March 3, 2005. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
8.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Phantom Of The Opera" (in German). Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
9.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom Of The Opera". Australiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
10.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom Of The Opera". Danishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
11.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Phantom Of The Opera" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
12.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom Of The Opera". Lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
13.Jump up ^ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
14.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom Of The Opera". Charts.org.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
15.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom Of The Opera". Norwegiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
16.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom Of The Opera". Portuguesecharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
17.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom Of The Opera". Spanishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
18.Jump up ^ "Soundtrack / Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom Of The Opera". Swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
19.Jump up ^ "Andrew Lloyd Webber | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. The Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
20.^ Jump up to: a b c The Phantom of the Opera – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Accessed on August 10, 2013.
 


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