The Phantom of the Opera

probably find a hotel.. I pull my phone out of my pocket and pull up google maps. I find the Night Time Square right down the road just past 7th Ave is only about $88 a night, so I grip the straps of my backpack and start walking. I walk past the Phantom of Broadway store and take a quick peek inside and notice all of the broadway shirts and other things, I make a mental note to stop there before I leave. I turn and continue to walk I stop and look up at the sign on the outside. I sigh in…

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…

wrong person? In the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, the Swedish singer Christine Daae is torn in a weird love triangle between two men: the handsome, rich, yet controlling and jealous Raoul, the Viscount of Chagny and the mysterious, talented, yet ugly and violent Erik, the Opera Ghost. Raoul was Christine’s childhood sweetheart and he wants to win her back. Erik is a masked man that slowly falls in love with Christine, while he hides within the Opera House and teaches…

cast. All cast members are supposed to act the way they think their character would act. An aspect of this is the intrapersonal relationships they must understand between their characters and other characters. The actor playing the Phantom, in The Phantom of the Opera, has to have an intrapersonal relationship with Christine, Raoul, Carlotta, Madame Giry and many other cast members/characters. However, as with the personal understanding of the character, the intrapersonal relationships between…

years, the monsters of myths have moved from the iconic literary works onto the big screen of the cinema, permitting audiences to now see the creatures that were once only a culmination of descriptive phrases. The steady visual alteration of the Phantom and other monsters in film, has now disturbed the long-held hypothesis that claims that a monster's body is basically an embodiment of disparity bringing about one outcome, fear. A scholar in monster theory, Jeffery Jerome Cohen composed a book…

Phantom of the Opera had several adaptations including the 2004 film with the same title starring Gerard Butler as Erik. Christine Daae in the movie was a struggling opera singer and was only given a break after Carlotta quitted (or just showing tantrums) and since then her career launched followed by the abduction of the Phantom. In the movie the romance of between two childhood friends occurred after Christine became a star and that Raoul saw her and remembered her. In the book the Viscount…

welcoming the audience. Long before that, one afternoon, I decided to see “The Phantom of the Opera,”as I was recommended to attend, but never at night. I remember the place so luxurious, beautiful, and deep affection that I felt for that place in one night so much that I wished to own it. That starry night, as I arrived home, my mailbox was open, inside a pearly envelope with a ruby seal held the title of my new Opera House. “How strange that no money was required,” I thought. But I decided…

In “Critical Essay on ‘The Phantom of the Opera’”, author David Kelly debates why Leroux’s book makes a better stage production or movie than a book. While Kelly feels Leroux’s characters lack depth, he advises this depth can be found when the characters are on screen or stage. Although Kelly does acknowledge that Leroux adds character elements he “does not follow through with them” and “the problem is that Leroux’s writing is all elements and no details.” Conversely, Kelly credits Leroux with…

” American poet Edgar Allen Poe’s words describe gothic feelings felt by the Phantom and the creature in two well-known works of fiction. A novel receives the genre, gothic, when the piece of literature meets specific requirements. Gothic elements compose and support a novel’s theme in the author’s intended manner. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011), hold several elements of gothic literature…

musicals include electric pop, classical, jazz, and rock operas. Similarities of the musical style in School of Rock are found in Starlight Express. Yet, there are still distinct differences in these two rock musicals. The stark differences in style are more apparently seen in comparing Jesus Christ Superstar and Phantom of the Opera. Both are operettas, yet one is a rock opera while the other is a more classical, horror opera. The Phantom of the Opera is a masterpiece composed by Andrew Lloyd…