Summary and analysis of the musical O Fantasma da Ópera

O Phantom of the Opera É um romance de ficção gótica francês, written by Gaston Leroux and initially published in chapters, between September 1909 and January 1910.

Narrating the history of a musical genre as a deformed face that lives in the catacombs of an opera by Paris, the work was a mark, tracing or mysterious protagonist for the French and international.

Not so, to figure do Phantom of the Opera It has been widely popularized by its film and theater adaptations, especially musical theater performed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, on Broadway, em 1986.

The show continues in the box for the days of the leaf, beating a record of permanence and becoming more non-musical than ever seen.

I summarize

O romance tells the dramatic story of a talented musician who, by way of a deformed face, straddles the entire society, thus inhabiting catacombs of paris. Na opera, gets turned off by Christine, to young people orfã a quem dá lições de canto during a night.

Christine reunites with Raoul, or new patron, who was her childhood love. O Ghost, com ciúmes,

she sequestra and cam for her rooms, debaixo da opera, proving that she loves him. Christine rips off her mask to see her face. She sees his face disfigured and orders him to return to the theater.

Noticing that the soprano is going to run away as a loved one, he turns to sequestra-her and decides to force her to marry her, trying to kill Raoul. Erik leaves a moment of intimidation as a moça, counting his past and chorando. He ends up letting Christine go with Raoul.

Personagens principais

Erik, O Ghost

Protagonist and personagem do title, or Phantom of the Opera É um homem that was born deformed and by isso was rejeit hair country. He hides from us calabouços da Ópera, where he discovers his love for music and is turned off by Christine. Ready for you to do his side of her, he decides to sequestrá-la and obrigá-her to marry but ends up freeing young man.

Christine Daaé

Filha de um violinista, Christine ficou orfã during her childhood and ended up being tucked into opera hairs. During the night, she heard a voice that taught her to sing and supposedly to be a young man, sent to protect her. At the same time that she is achieving success as a soprano, she finds Raoul, her first love, and becomes a victim of Erik's obsession.

Raoul, Viscount of Chagny

Raoul is the new patron of the theater. He reunited with Christine, his childhood paixão, and returned to nurture feelings for her. When she perceives that the theater is being awash and that Erik has manipulated me, he runs all the cliffs to try to save her.

Tangle of romance

O Phantom of the Opera tell the tragic story of um love triangle Past the backstage of a Parisian opera. Or protagonist, a masquerade entity that surprises the opera, unfolds an obsessive paixão by Christine, a young soprano who played orphaned and was padded by the trupe. For years, de noite, she listened to her voice and taught her to sing, saying that it was "Anjo da Música".

After Raoul's check, I saw two dois disturbing Rotina. O Visconde, new patron of the theater, was in love with Christine during childhood. When they meet again, the logo is reconfirmed and de novo disappears. O Ghost ameaça and attacks cousin donna, Carlotta, lead singer. Ela ends up losing voice and is replaced by Christine.

Depois de vê-la no box, Raoul tries and declares himself to her, inviting her to go out. O Phantom squat on purpose and rooted from ciúmes, finally appearing diante da moça and sequestrando-a. Christine is raised to the underworld where the Ghost lives. He confesses or his love for her, saying that he needs his company and gives his voice to the music he composes.

She tries to see his face from him and rips his mask off him, provoking fury from him and his shame on him. She lets Christine go back to the theater and tells Raoul that she was kidnapped. I decided to run away together, but she wanted to say goodbye and sing some last music for Erik. He listens to the conversation and does not follow the cam again for or he hid, I want obrigá-la to marry as ele. Ela refuses more or Fantasma ameaça kill Raoul, who was her refém.

For the love of Visconde, he ends up oiling a girl. Erik responds to Raoul from his torture chamber and Christine lifts the mask to see his face from her. O Ghost confesses that he was never beijado, nem same by his me, and you two choram. Her tears were mixed with her, a moment of great intimidation and emotion.

Erik deixa Christine to leave with Raoul more face to moça promise that she will return when to die and return or anel de ouro than lhe deu. Some time later, Erik died "in love" and Christine returned to Opera to bury her body in a hidden place, returning or being her.

Musical analysis

A Leroux Romance Adaptation for Musical Theater was written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe. Releasing in 1986 in London on Broadway, two years after, it was a tremendous success.

O Phantom of the Opera It became a show with the highest time of exhibition on Broadway, having passed over 10 thousand sessions in the year 2012. Musically, several analyzes apontam that or grau de inovação das musics compostas hair Fantasma (in his opera "Dom Juan Triumphant "), contrasts with the traditional forms present in other songs of the show, highlighting his talent and genius.

Foreword

The show began in 1905, at the Opera Populaire, during a leilão. Raoul, já velho, buy a lot where ancient artifacts are kept, related to the Opera Ghost mystery.

When I lift the cloth of the purchased luster, it magically lights up and rises, noting the top of the box. Or silent diner, as the years went back to, or theater turned to its era of splendor.

Ato I

Assim, not the first year, it runs or year 1881 and Carlotta, a star of the show is testing When you explain phenomena, you see it begin to happen and the artists in the box shout that Ghost is Present. TO prima donna, scared, she refuses to continue and leaves or local.

Madame Giry, supervisor of the balé, suggest that Christine, a young soprano who grows up in the Opera, faça uma audição to occupy or role. She sings "Think of Me" and her skills, vocais and techniques surpreendem all present.

Depois do successso da his estia. Christine confesses to her friend Meg, Madame Giry's filha, that or her teacher is a voice that she hears during a night, from childhood, entitled o "Anjo da Música".

Na mesma noite, a girl met again with Raoul, his old friend and new patron of the theater. We talked about Christine's father, what happened, and she told me that he sent her um Anjo that keeps and teaches to sing. Embora a paixão reappears between the two of you, a soprano he had to challenge or his invitation to cheer, claiming that his master was very rigorous.

Com ciúmes, or Ghost appears for Christine num espelho, pela the first time, and a carrega pela mão atao seu hidderijo. Many of the most famous dinners of the musical, traversed an underground lake by boat, singing "Phantom of the Opera" ("Or Phantom of the Opera").

A mysterious figure declares her love pela cantora and affirms that he needs to give a voice to give life to his musical compositions. Curious, she lifts the mask and sees her deformed face. He assumes violent behavior, yelling and beating a soprano. Depois, excited, he confesses his frustration and wishes to be the same as others.

O Fantasma sends a ticket to the director of the Opera, demanding that Christine be the star of the next show and advising that she is going to be seen or obeyed. Assim, when Carlotta is not in the box, or Fantasma transforms her voice not coaxing from a toad. Suddenly, the body of a theater official who was always failing the Ghost appears not a stage and a panic among the public, when a maleficent laugh is heard.

A young man managed to escape for or told by Raoul and told what happened he did not hide from the Ghost. Embora, initially, she does not accredit, or patron declares her love and promises to protect her. O Ghost waits in conversation, in fury, face falling or luster on top of the box.

Ato II

Depois do episódio do luster, or Ghost will appear before everyone during a masked ball, fantasized by Morte Vermelha. He announces that he has created an opera called "Don Juan Triunfante" and demands that she be performed immediately, with Christine as the lead singer.

Raoul, knowing that the Ghost will be present in the morning, tries to convince his beloved ajudá-lo to mount an armadilha, but she will be reluctant to be attracted to her or her master.

Or Viscount discovers, through Madame Giry, that a mysterious entity is musical genre with magical powers that, because of a deformed face, decided to hide in the catacombs of the Opera.

During a peça. The soprano discovers that she is counteracting as her own Phantom and rips open her mask again, this time before everyone. Nesse moment, or body that should be in the box and found us backstage.

Com a confusion, or Ghost sequestra Christine, never before capturing her rival. Forcing the young man to wear a noiva dress, announcing that he is going to marry and wanting to kill Raoul, he refuses.

Numa talks excitedly, to soprano she says to Phantom that her deformity of her is in the soul and not face, beijando-o num sinal de compaixão. Either gesture awakens or human side of the "monster" that resolves to leave you two partirem lovers.

Interpretations and meaning of "O Fantasma da Ópera"

Various readings and interpretations may arise in connection with Leroux's romance. Despite all the crimes that he commits and exhibits aggressive, self-centered and obsessive behavior, the figure of the Ghost has conquered sympathy and compaixão do seu public.

Exclusion and marginalization

Na verdade, embora ameaçadora, the figure also shows its most sensitive side, its heart bruised as a world that or rejeitou. Despite his inquisitive musical talent, he was forced into shadows, because the deformation was not his face scares everyone who knows it.

For its compositions to have success, or Ghost needs the voice and beauty of Christine. In this sense, this seems to be a story of marginalization make them different, which is for two current patrons and, therefore, there is no opportunity to shine or rise to life.

Solidão and abandonment

Na sequência do que foi dito acima, an obsessão do Fantasma by Christine may arise da sua Necessity of social and human contact. Through song lições, ao long of years, or homem solitary I will form an emotional bond with garota.

This theory is reinforced as the outcome of the relationship. When Christine beija or seu face of her, or Ghost sits, pela first time, loved and understood. The soprano gesture seems to be a validation and oil that she needs, leaving her to leave.

Metaphor for artistic creation

Outra common analysis is that which Raoul appoints as a symbol of love and family life, enquanto or Ghost would be a metaphor for art itself. Like or Ghost, a Christine art, or lyrical song, it would be um rigorous and demanding teacher that he intended to occupy all or his tempo and dominate his life from her.

Or serious love triangle, then, or inner conflict of the young, divided between bourgeois life, or desire to marry and form a family and an ambition to conquer excellence in her career soprano.

Abusive love triangle

Um olhar contemporaneo on a narrative, provided on all of the 2004 film, não consegue ficating indifferent to or abusive character of Christine's relations as Fantasma da Ópera e o Visconde de Chagny. Like a corda being puxada you pelas more two dois, a moça fica no meio de uma war of egos.

Christine is forced to choose between a home who sequesters and wants to force her to marry and another who pressures to abandon her career and flee. Assim, he is not free to play his escorts and ends up abandoning his vocation.

Film adaptations

Also the famous adaptation for musical theater, or Gaston Leroux's book was transported to the visual arts many times, with more or less fidelity to the original narrative.

O Phantom of the Opera (1925), Rupert Julian

A first representation no cinema was printed and white. No silent film, or the protagonist always emerges with a mask, revealing his scary face. Rejected by Christine, he sequesters the singer, who ends up being restrained by the police.

O Phantom of the Opera (1943), Arthur Lubin

Our adaptation, the story is quite modified and Erik is a violinist of the orchestra that is paired by Christine, a singer with many vocais capacities. For love, he began to pay for singing classes so that a soprano melhore, at the same time that his own talent is disappearing.

Or a musician ends up being fired and dedicates himself to composing more of his work and roubada and his face is burned with acid when he tries to recover it. He hides in the catacombs and draws up a plan to conquer or love young people but ends up dying in the desert.

O Phantom of the Opera (1962), Terence Fisher

Passed by the London scene, the story is asserted by Lubin's film. Or protagonist, Petrie, is a poor professor whose work is roubada and or face is burned with acid, in a sequence. He takes refuge in the Opera where Christine is singing. Neste film, or Fantasma is not beaten by the soprano, as soon as he wants to help her to reach her or her artistic potential. Petrie will die in the box, saving the life of Christine, who would be attacked by a luster.

O Fantasma do Paraíso (1974), Brian De Palma

Very different from other verses, or Brian De Palma's film is a rock opera. A free adaptation mixes elements of Leroux's entanglement with the narratives of Or Corcunda of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo e Splendor of Goethe.

O Phantom of the Opera (2004), Joel Schumacher

A more recent film adaptation is also the next Broadway musical, keeping or its entanglement with the original songs no show. Recovering the myth of the Masked Ghost, or Schumacher's film, obtained a lot of success, being nominated for the Oscar and the Globo de Ouro of 2005.

5 curiosities about "O Fantasma da Ópera"

1. Not an original romance, Gaston Leroux defends that he is telling a real story, presenting stories and documents that he intends to verify the veracity of the narrative.
2. Ao long of three decades, or Broadway musical has more than 1 billion dollars.
3. Not a film from 2004, so that the girls seem realistic during or in the fire, not theater, a produção pegou fgo nos cenários.
4. The Joel Schumacher film was financed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who invested 6 thousand dollars in production.
5. The musical já was translated into more than 15 languages, between os quais or Russian, or Hungarian and or Korean.

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