phantom of the opera 25th anniversary royal albert hall

#Phantom of the opera 25th anniversary royal albert hall movie

ORCHESTRA: the orchestration is quite rich, with the enormous orchestra they assembled for the event, and the acting is very good.

#Phantom of the opera 25th anniversary royal albert hall movie

Schumacher's demystifying approcah is perhaps the most evident change from the original show (he shows us the Phantom's tricks, which are hinted but never shown as such in the theatre musical) - other than nearly full rewriting and (apparently reasonless) switching of diaglogues and 'recitatives' (see 'Think of it: a secret ingagement look your future bride!' which is throughly sung in the musical, whereas the movie has just 'Think of it' sung by Rossum, then switching with no reason to spoken dialogue). Kathleen Battle - do have a similar one). SCHUMACHER'S 2004 CAST (2 disc integrale soundtrack): Schumacher's movie's cast is quite opposite to the Original Cast recording: a baritone Phantom (Butler's rocky voice), and a Christine (Emmy Rossum) with a rather feeble voice (usually quite unsuitable for an opera singer, even though some professional sopranos - e.g.

THE ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING: while perhaps Sierra Boggess has not Sarah Brightman's purest voice, she studied as a soprano and it's rather evident, her top ringing somehow like Brightman's - even though it's fuller and warmer Ramin Karimloo's nearly baritone-voice is doubtlessly better suited to the Phantom than Michael Crawford's lightest tenor. A little modification was made in the ending of 'Whishing you were somehow here again', adding an orchestral climax where the original had an ending nearly a cappella (which, frankly, was better).īetter also the sound effects, especially the Phantom's fireballs, in the second act, where they sound as a blaze, whereas in Crawford's recording they sounded like crackers.

Firmin and André's entrance is after the rehearsal of 'Hannibal' instead of during the ballet but there is more or less the full original text). COMPLETE: first of all, this is so far the most complete official English full recording of this musical I've ever heard (there were a few changes in the order of the lines, e.g.