The story itself is fascinating: at the Paris Opera in 1861, a ghost haunts disfigured places and disrupting rehearsals and performances of operas, to the dismay of the entire company. The reason? He loves the beautiful Christine Daae, whose sublime voice is overshadowed by that of the Prima Donna, Carlotta. It was he who taught Christine to sing, and he demands that she takes the lead of the opera he wrote for her. But the young woman loves and is loved by a young man in the flesh that one, Raoul de Chagny. Where an exciting varitation on engineering and creation, about love and passion, a real opera in the opera, which cleverly plays set abyss and returns on itself. With all that, the music of AL Webber adds a breath, a striking lyricism to this story. Tunes like "The Phantom of the Opera," "Music of the Night," "All I ask of you" or "The Point of no return" add depth to the characters, and they seem obvious to hear them sing while everything happens in an opera! The voice of Sarah Brightman, gde interpreter Webber, Steve Barton who plays Raoul, and Michael Crawford, beautiful ghost, are perfect: they understood that the lyrical song, it is not a succession of notes yelled to try cover music. So thank you to Webber putting these characters in music, and have so successfully make the disturbing ambiguity of this story, I understood the fascinating character of the ghost, paradoxical in the passionate love he has for the young singer.
