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…

In opera, the composer is the dramatist. In opera the music interprets, crystallizes, and intensifies the expressive meaning of the words, far beyond anything with the words alone are capable of (Greenberg, 2009, L11, 8:35). During the transitory period of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, the tremendous increase in the popularity of secular stage drama punctuated by musical intermezzos (music played between the acts of stage plays) invariably ignited opera into existence. As discussed by…

Multimodal translating of the Musical The Phantom of the Opera in China As the development of cultural undertakings, Chinese people have more diversified demands on art and voices for musicals are getting higher and higher. Musical is a form of theatrical performance which combines dialogues, music, movement, lightening and sounding technology as an integrated whole.it was born in western countries in the twentieth century, and enjoyed the highest popularity in American Broadway and the Western…

The Phantom of the Opera has been a smash hit in the world of musical theatre ever since opening on October 9th, 1986 in New York City. Since then, there have been a countless number of different productions and tours that have graced audiences across the world. Currently, there is a new production of The Phantom of the Opera on tour across North America, involving one of the largest casts of any touring company. This marvelously humongous musical has been brought to life by a number of persons…

Opera has always been known for bringing the most drama into the theater, but in the beginning of the 1800’s opera was split into two separate categories, the bel canto and the Gesamtkunstwerk. The Italian Opera was always more popular as this is where opera began, but the bel canto somewhat altered what opera looked like. Bel Canto was characterized by one main singer, one voice that was most prominent. Instruments were used to create a background, they were to support the main voice,…

The Phantom of the Opera has proven to be a fantastic musical and Broadway classic for multiple reasons. To begin, many times lingering in one's head, the soundtrack to The Phantom of the Opera features dramatic and emotion filled music. From utilizing volume and dynamics, Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer, has brilliantly utilized music to keep one captivate in the show between and during intense mood changes. Aside from just the sound, the writers have made heart touching lyrics to further…

attempts at adapting Shakespeare’s works into opera. Though modern composers such as Benjamin Britten and Thomas Adès have set Shakespeare’s original words to music, with few changes if any, the most famous operatic adaptations over time have proved to be Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello and Macbeth. In these works, Verdi manages to keep the intent of Shakespeare and the overall plot of the play, yet molds the details of the story to be more suitable for the opera house. However, in between the composing…

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is the largest Opera Company in New England, founded in 1976. It is a nonprofit organization that relies on extensive donations from many supporters to produce and perform a great deal of programs on the stage and community (Boston Lyric Opera, n.d.). Its partners are divided into two parts, one is public support and another is organizations and institutions. The mission of Boston Lyric Opera is to produce excellent productions, inspire audiences to appreciate opera, and…

The most obscure character in The Phantom of the Opera, is the Paris Opera House. Working in duality, the opera house not only provides the setting, but it also shines a light on the hypocritical and social ills French society at the time. The opera house emphasizes the social status during a period known as the Belle Époque (The Beautiful Season), which the upper-class would come to call 'The Golden Age', during this period the standards of living was increased for the middle and upper-class.…

Douglas Presnell Music 308B 14 Feb 2017 Count Durazzo and the Reformation of Italian Opera My grandson recently asked me about my past adventures when I was younger. I decided to tell him about the time I snuck into the cast party for the ballet Don Juan, ou Le Festin de pierre. It was 1761 in Vienna. I wanted to meet the creators of that ballet to try to see if I could be in one of their productions, so I pretended to be one of the stage workers to get in. Thinking back on it, it was a…