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Phantom of the Opera movie

Sun, 26 Dec 2004, 10:33 pm
Walter Plinge82 posts in thread
What I can say is that the movie is fairly directed. The music is marvellous but apparently its been casted with worst singers ever. Overall the phantom is the worst singer with the most unmusical voice i've ever heard in my life. There is nothing scary about his voice, except that he occasionally try to sound like a toad which isnt working for me. The christine role sounds like another version of sarah brightman, those who try to substitute acting and musicality with divaism. I dont see why the phantom accuse the diva carlotta for being bad in acting although she is moderately very good for me except the fact that she have to use that wagnerian slide up. There is nothing interesting about the vocal color of the singers. All of them sounds like puppies singing dead songs. It sounds more like karaoke rather than a good singing. I could tolerate christine and raoul but not the phantom; he is a crime.

It's very irritating to see how they abuse such musical masterpiece. I expect the movie to be at least comparable to normal local musicals but its far worse than that. I doubt if actually christine would actually be heard if she sang that aria in a real theater. It is total humiliation for opera singers that the movie uses such incompetent singer to compare with opera singers. I think even thought it is a musical; they should at least put at least a bit of operatic voice in christine because she is an opera singers in the story for goodness sake. Her voice is dead and lack of expression; its just beautiful and doesnt not resonate. The music is touching thanx to the composer of the music, but relying on the musicality of the composer is but showing the sign of a dead performer. THe least for human to be is to be a singing machine. 'such thing is the most cruel thing one can ever do' Felix Mendelssohn.

Re: Phantom of the Opera movie

Sat, 8 Jan 2005, 01:05 am
Walter Plinge
of course i never will insult andrew lloyd weber; if you read my further writing I never insult andrew at all. I even feel ashamed because of the casts make such good work into a less quality musical. What i dont like about it is that people regard a singer more of the song they sing rather than what they actually can do. Rossum is a young coloratura and that is fair enough but of course she is nowhere better than carlotta in opera. A voice like carlotta in reality even though is not one of the greats, it is still wonderful yet rossum is no where near carlotta's technique and musicality. One of the most dissappointing scene is when rossum sang the aria. Opera is not about being a primadonna on stage: its not about being like sarah brightman standing and sing and act like shes the greatest diva and throw all the vocal fireworks. If you actually listen to a maria callas lecture; she despises beautiful singing without expression. As a classical singer or musical singer we are responsible to express and to convey the story of the song. I do think it is very unfair to compare emma rossum with maria callas; but i am happy if someone compare her to sarah brightman because sarah brightman is ten times worse than rossum. Some people love to lsiten to a beautiful light voice; i personally like dark yummy voices like cecilia bartolli and dimitiri hvrorostovsky: voices of great expression.

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Phantom of the Opera movieWalter Plinge26 Dec 2004
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