Phantom of the Opera movie
Sun, 26 Dec 2004, 10:33 pmWalter Plinge82 posts in thread
Phantom of the Opera movie
Sun, 26 Dec 2004, 10:33 pmWhat 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.
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, 9 Jan 2005, 09:33 pmWalter Plinge
ardjoena is a he, not a she. It is a fact that I doesn't really know much about musical theatre. Some people might think that phantom is expressive although not very pleasant to hear. I do think he is expressive but I just think that his intepretation of the phantom is abit ambiguous. There is a point when a fair voice could express without the need of vocal fireworks but there are times when the voice become a hindrance or obstacle in order to achieve a certain emotion and its just my sixth sense hunch that he doesnt really plan to sound in that certain way. if he has better vocal technique i believe he could express the character more. Like Mendelssohn wrote to his friend in the letter, he believes it is tragic to the fact that techniques and all those things that makes music into cold and dead cruel things are actually the most basic part of learning music. I guess its different when im talking about 'technique vs expression' and 'technical efficiency to express' and also 'success of expression in story'.
I would put voice of emma rossum to 'technique vs expression' issue.
I would put phantom's voice to either 'technical efficiency to express' issue or 'success of expression in story' issue.
Just to say that its all very subjective and all based on personal opinion.
I am not speaking under any group of people or any school of thoughts.
I would put voice of emma rossum to 'technique vs expression' issue.
I would put phantom's voice to either 'technical efficiency to express' issue or 'success of expression in story' issue.
Just to say that its all very subjective and all based on personal opinion.
I am not speaking under any group of people or any school of thoughts.
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