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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

Fri, 7 Jan 2005, 08:02 pm
Walter Plinge
May i quickly say that Sarah Brightman has a beautiful light voice. I say light because it does not hold very much power. The part of Christine is not a strong Coloratura Soprano role that could be like Maria Callas or Joan Sutherland. But was ment to be light and beautiful and innocent. Christine is young and innocent. So please do not go on about Emmy Rossum's voice lacking power, it has the amazing range doesnt it? Besides for those who do not now in the opera world young complete voice does not fully mature untill you way past 21 and Emmy is only 18. Besides that she full filled all that was needed for this role, her voice was beautiful and hit all the notes.

You can take this movie apart all you want, piece by piece and critise this movie, by art is supposed to creat magic and that is what excalty this movie did. Why cant we talk about what perfect for whom and when and why

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Phantom of the Opera movieWalter Plinge26 Dec 2004
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