Musical Analysis Of Phantom Of The Opera

The 2004 movie, The Phantom of the Opera, is based off the original 1986 musical that was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The actual movie is also produced by Webber and is directed by Joel Schumacher. It was released in the United States in December of 2004 and has been a hit ever since. The musical is still very popular and is performed on stages across the world to this day. Each musical scene in The Phantom of the Opera is sung in opera, so one has to have a special talent to perform. Some of the scenes are performed in a very intense manner and a few murder scenes are shown so the musical may scare a younger audience. The movie starts out in black and white at the Paris Opera House where an auction is taking place. One item that goes …show more content…
They both started out at a regular tone singing but as the song went through each got louder, as Christine’s voice became more high pitch and the Phantoms voice became deeper. The tone then goes soft as the Phantom sings to Christine “Music of the Night.” The song is sung in a more romantic type tone for he is expressing his feelings for Christine and asking her to be with him but it all overwhelms her and she passes out. As Christine wakes up, she softy starts singing, “I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It,” but the tone dramatically changes when she takes the Phantoms mask off and he pushes her down. The Phantom then took over the song and sang it very intensely as you can see hear his anger and frustration with every note he …show more content…
As Piangi was going out on stage to sing with Christine, the Phantom kills him and goes out to sing with her instead. The Phantom and Christine sing “The Point Of No Return.” The Phantom has more of a passionate tone while Christine has her normal innocent tone. While singing, it is made quite obvious to everyone, including Raoul, that Christine is in love with the Phantom but Christine ends their moment together when she rips off the Phantoms mask, exposing his burnt face to the whole house. In return, he drops the chandelier on the audience, making the house catch fire, while he takes Christine back down to his lair singing “Down One More” in a very angry tone. While he is singing that, the rest of the crew is singing “Track Down This Murder” in a fast tone as they go down to look for him. Raoul has made it down to the lair where the Phantom gives Christine a ring then ties Raoul up, this is when the Phantom gives her an ultimatum; she can stay with him and Raoul goes free or she can reject him and he will kill Raoul. While all three sing different songs together in a pleading tone, Christine chooses the Phantom as she kisses him passionately. This is when the Phantom realized that Christine does truly love him but he has done too much damage and must let her go, so he sends her on her way with Raoul as she looks back at him once more with a heartbroken look. The