![]() ![]() His mother is the beautiful, talented, spoiled, and conceited daughter of a French architect and an English woman. His father is a well-known stonemason and dies in a construction accident a few months before his son is born. In this tale, the Phantom is born as Erik at the summer of 1831 in Boscherville, a little town close to Rouen. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux serves as a loose inspiration for the plot, but the story goes much further. With the tragic tale of the Ghost of the Opera, Susan Kay accomplishes what few other writers have been able to do: she gives Erik (the phantom) a soul. Probably more than ten times, I’ve read this book (532 pages). Book: Phantom – Susan Kay (released: 1990) ![]() The Phantom mythology is traced from its beginnings in historical fact through Gaston Leroux’s heartbreaking classic novel and its artistic manifestations to the present and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s wildly popular musical in this richly illustrated, comprehensive study of The Phantom of the Opera. What a charming book filled with illustrations, anecdotes, and even the lyrics to the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical from 1986! Also included in the book is a part that details the process used to turn Michael Crawford into the Phantom of the Opera. Book: The Complete Phantom of the Opera (George Perry) (1988) Read 39 Interesting facts about the Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of The Phantom of the Opera here. The Phantom of the Opera (1986) – Andrew Lloyd Webber They want to talk to me about it, but that is a different matter.Įmbrace it. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh were seated in the crowd. Then, in 1984, it debuted on the Theatre Workshop stage in London to essentially unanimous acclaim and love with the same staging and musical arrangements you are currently watching – with tunes from opera painstakingly fitted to prosaic words in true operatic form. The genuine sadness of the Phantom and his blind love should not be diminished as a result because it was always concealed in another location. Since there is a maniac hiding out in the premises, imagine if YOU were a haughty little theater manager who had the difficult duty of managing a respectable opera company. #Phantom of the opera book written in eriks perspective how toFurthermore, I observed how to maintain humanity for Lancaster and maintain the desired level of enjoyment. It was a fantastic myth with romance and thrills. There was much more to the plot, and Universal and Hammer had damaged it. I knew I had uncovered their upcoming hit piece by the time I got to Lancaster for the following production meeting. Had such a book existed? Wasn’t there some old, stale tale about a composer getting acid thrown in his face and having his manuscript taken? Remake of Universal Pictures by Hammer Horror. The antique book, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, then dropped to the ground. They argued that both had the same “thrills and laughing.” What then? I’d had great success turning well-known stories of romance and drama into musical productions that included songs, lots of action, and lots of comedy, but I didn’t want to adapt another Dumas, Hugo, or Stoker. “When I strolled into that old junk – shop and browsed through the tatty books my mind was on other matters…”Īt the Lancaster Repertory Theatre, Dracula had been a resounding success, and people were clamoring for another concept. For the music of Verdi, Gounod, Offenbach, Mozart, Weber, Donizetti, and Boito, Hill created the original English lyrics. This is the first musical version of Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera, which tells the story of the horribly deformed Phantom’s passionate fascination with the gorgeous, impressionable singer Christine. Ken Hill wrote the script and lyrics for the 1976 musical Phantom of the Opera. Phantom of the Opera (1976) Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera Read 17 Interesting facts about Gaston Leroux’s ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ here. ![]() If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.” “If I am the phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so. In the book, there were several very lovely passages. It was challenging for me to read the book since it read so much like a historical recreation of facts. The story draws some of its inspiration from actual nineteenth-century occurrences at the Paris Opera as well as an urban legend about the use of a former ballet student’s bones in Hector Berlioz’s 1841 performance of Der Freischütz. There wouldn’t be a Phantom of the Opera today without Gaston Leroux’s original rendition of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra. (first released in 1909) The original Gaston Leroux Novel Book: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux by Gaston le Roux ![]()
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