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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

Sun, 30 Jan 2005, 02:42 pm
Walter Plinge
I've been to see "Phantom" twice now. First of all, I think all the voices are adequate - it is a stage musical, not an opera, so trained singers aren't paramount. Christine is supposed to be a rising star in her teens - very few teens have full range voices - Miss Rossum has a sweet voice that fits the bill. Raoul's voice was splendid. I saw an interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber and he apparently auditioned Gerard Butler for the role and approved of his edgy sound. As for me, the cast works well together and the overall effect is breathtaking - even though it has a few flaws - I'm very happy that there was very little variation from the stage production. Very well done!

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