Rehearsal Photos

Making of the Mask Part 1

Rehearsal Photos Part 2

Rehearsal Photos Part 3

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The Story of a Spectre...Synopsis

It is 1911 and the contents of the Paris Opera House are being auctioned off. Raoul, now 70 years old, buys a poster and music box, before the auctioneer displays the Opera House chandelier, explaining that it is connected with the legend of the Phantom of the Opera. With a flash of light, the audience is flung back in time, to when the Paris Opera was at its height.

We are thrust into the middle of a rehearsal
for the opera Hannibal. Monsieur LeFèvre, the retiring manager of the Opera, is showing the new managers, Firmin and André, the great stage. As the prima donna, Carlotta, is singing, staging suddenly falls to the floor, nearly killing her. The cry is raised, “It’s The Phantom of the Opera!” Upset, Carlotta refuses to sing. Meg Giry, daughter of the ballet mistress, Madame Giry, suggests that her friend, Christine Daaé, takes Carlotta’s place as Christine has been taking lessons from a mysterious new singing teacher. In the audience at Christine’s debut is Raoul, a nobleman and new patron of the Opera. Raoul recognizes Christine as a childhood friend and he comes backstage after the performance to escort her to dinner, but Christine tells him
she cannot go, because her teacher, “The Angel of Music,” is very strict. When Raoul leaves Christine’s room, the Phantom mysteriously appears and Christine is lured into the bowels of the Opera House as he leads her to his underground lair. He entices her to sing
the music he has composed and Christine, entranced by his seductive powers, becomes overwhelmed. She is revived from her trance by the sound of the Phantom’s music. Unobserved, Christine creeps up behind him and unmasks him to see what lies beneath. Horrified, the Phantom takes Christine back to the surface.

The Phantom sends cryptic notes to the Managers of the Opera, as well as Raoul, Madame Giry and Carlotta, which give instructions that Christine will have the lead in his new opera, Il Muto. The Managers refuse to give in to the Phantom’s demands. Il Muto proceeds as planned, with Carlotta in the lead and Christine in a secondary role. As promised, disaster tragically strikes and Carlotta’s voice is compromised. In the confusion, Raoul and Christine escape to the roof of the Opera House. There, in the Parisian twilight, they pledge their love to one another. However, they are oblivious to the Phantom in the shadows, witnessing their vows of love. Heartbroken at Christine’s betrayal, the Phantom’s impassioned reaction causes the final disaster of the night.

The second act opens at a grand masquerade ball, held in the Ballroom of the Paris Opera House. The Phantom has remained silent for more than a year and Christine and Raoul are now secretly engaged. During the revelry, the Phantom suddenly appears, bearing a score of his new opera, Don Juan Triumphant. At first, the Managers refuse to perform this strange, disturbing opera. However, they relent as, with the help of Raoul, they devise a cunning plan to trap the Phantom, using Christine as bait, during the opening night. Before the performance Christine visits the grave of her father and there at the tombstone stands the Phantom, beckoning her to join him. Raoul intervenes and rescues her from the Phantom’s enchantment. At the opening night of Don Juan Triumphant, the theatre is surrounded by guards and police eager to catch the Phantom. As the opera builds to its climax, the Phantom takes the place of Piangi, the lead tenor. Beneath his disguise, he confronts Christine on stage during the performance, and escapes with her once more to his labyrinth below the Opera House. In one last confrontation, the Phantom gives Christine a choice; stay with him forever, or he will kill Raoul. Her decision brings to an end the legend of The Phantom of the Opera. But the legacy of his mystery lives on...

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