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 notes
Wed, 22 Feb 2006, 11:58 amwalter hartright wrote:
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> on a different note i went to see phantom on the west end and
> the high note christine hits in "wishing you were somehow
> here again" was RECORDED!!! can you believe it, what a crock
> of you know what... the show was fantastic otherwise but i
> was so dissapointed... still i guess in the business of make
> believe what can you expect!?!
This could have been for a number of reasons....probably a back up because of vocal tiredness. Voices get strained during a long season and they need to ensure that damage won't occur to affect the rest of the season.
In live concert footage of Billy Joel singing 'An Innocent Man' you can tell it's one of his back up singers singing the high notes of "I am..." He could obviously manage it on a recording but not night after night in a concert setting.
I did the same thing once in a stage rock musical called 'Living In The Seventis' where my voice was raw after one matinee show and in the evening I couldn't hit the high rough notes in one of the rock songs. I could do everything else including falsetto, but for that one song our drummer sang several lines. With my mouth hidden behind the stage mic it was only half obvious that I wasn't singing.
Freddie Mercury and Queen used to leave the stage during the operatic aria part of Bohemian Rhapsody, and play the recorded version off the LP for two minutes. They could not have reproduced it live, because it was mostly Freddie and some of Roger multi-tracked. It might have been the first use of kareoke onstage, because the audience didn't seem to mind, they'd all just sing along.
Cheers,
Craig
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> on a different note i went to see phantom on the west end and
> the high note christine hits in "wishing you were somehow
> here again" was RECORDED!!! can you believe it, what a crock
> of you know what... the show was fantastic otherwise but i
> was so dissapointed... still i guess in the business of make
> believe what can you expect!?!
This could have been for a number of reasons....probably a back up because of vocal tiredness. Voices get strained during a long season and they need to ensure that damage won't occur to affect the rest of the season.
In live concert footage of Billy Joel singing 'An Innocent Man' you can tell it's one of his back up singers singing the high notes of "I am..." He could obviously manage it on a recording but not night after night in a concert setting.
I did the same thing once in a stage rock musical called 'Living In The Seventis' where my voice was raw after one matinee show and in the evening I couldn't hit the high rough notes in one of the rock songs. I could do everything else including falsetto, but for that one song our drummer sang several lines. With my mouth hidden behind the stage mic it was only half obvious that I wasn't singing.
Freddie Mercury and Queen used to leave the stage during the operatic aria part of Bohemian Rhapsody, and play the recorded version off the LP for two minutes. They could not have reproduced it live, because it was mostly Freddie and some of Roger multi-tracked. It might have been the first use of kareoke onstage, because the audience didn't seem to mind, they'd all just sing along.
Cheers,
Craig
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