Phantom Of The Opera Essay

Webber uses masks in many different ways in the play, The Phantom of the Opera. One of the ways that he uses them is with the characters. Every character in the play wears some kind of mask. Whether it’s just stage makeup, a wig, beard, or a moustache, they all

The Phantom of the Opera started out as a book written by Gaston Leroux, published January 8th in 1910 (Haining, 1). There have been several adaptations since then, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. The other adaptations were Das Phantom der Opera, which is also known as Das Gespent im Opernhaus produced during 1916 in Germany as a silent drama film, this is known as a lost film due to no known copies existing at this time. A silent drama horror was produced on November 15th, 1925, a drama thriller was produced during August 27th in 1943, a horror film was produced June 25th during 1962, and an indie thriller, called Phantom of the Paradise was adapted from Phantom of the Opera and then produced in October 31st of 1974.

James Barbour is currently playing the role of the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera which is performed at Majestic Theatre in New York City. He has countless accomplishments including performing in eight Broadway shows and twelve films as well as winning three of the six awards he has been nominated for (Wikipedia Contributors). Although James Barbour sounds perfect on paper, he has a dark past.

To start off, The Phantom of the Opera, musically composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, arrived in Broadway in 1988 and preformed on the stage of the Majestic Theatre. The Phantom of the Opera tells a the story of young Christine Daae who takes center stage as leading soprano. The opera's supposed phantom cuts the rope, which connects the stage lights, causing the old lead singer to quit after nearly being killed by falling lights. Christine claims to have had lessons from an angle of music that her late father had promised. Unknown, the angle is the supposed phantom. The phantom is just a man named Erik who

Shakespeare's Othello creates a racial vision through comparing between the black and the white people. Shakespeare connects the vision of black people (Othello) with evilness, darkness, and with the devil. While white people (Desdemona) "that whiter skin of her than snow" (4.2.4), represents purity, lighten, and goodness. Othello is represented as a devil because of his skin color and from this we can see how racial prejudices subsisted strongly in the mid sixteenth and in the seventeenth century. Actually Shakespeare uses Othello's complexion as a symbol of his “true” essence. Shakespeare success in representing Othello in a way which provokes the audience,

Dante Fragapane Mrs. Stegmeier English 2 9-10* 18 September 2014 Phantom Censorship The movie The Phantom of the Opera is an adaption of the novel, The Phantom of the Opera, written by Gaston Leroux in 1909. It is about an opera house in France, back in 1870, that a man, nicknamed The Phantom, resides in. There is a woman named Christine, whom is an opera singer.

In his own time, however, Leroux was a celebrated journalist, an international adventurer, and one of the most popular authors of mysteries and dark thrillers in the entire world, as well as a gambler. It was a life that might easily have come out of a novel, had it not all been true. His novel The Phantom of the Opera and its Broadway adaptation is by far his most famous piece of work. The play can be seen in many countries around the world still

The longest running show on Broadway. The Phantom of the Opera was written in 1909-1910 but didn’t become a musical until 1986. Based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux. Andrew Webber and Charles Hart both wrote the musical together based off that book, back in 1986. Was first played on West End, in London. Then, played on Broadway in 1988 at the Majestic Theatre. Celebrated the 10,000th Broadway performance on February 11th, 2012. Worldwide gross of $5.6 billion and Broadway gross of $845 million. Has been played in 27 different

The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, is an intense story that keeps readers intrigued with complex and mysterious characters. Readers are told the stories of the lives of four different characters. Each character’s story is told in a different way over the course of the entire book.

Phantom of the Opera was created by the amazing Andrew Lloyd Webber. Andrew was born on March 22, 1948, in South Kensington in London, England. He was the first of two sons of William Lloyd Webber, who was an organist and composer. His mother, Jean Johnstone, was a pianist and violinist. Andrew Lloyd Webber learned to play many musical instruments at home and began composing extremely early. He continued his musical studies at Westminster School, where his father was an organist. At the age of 9, Andrew was able to play the organ and helped his father during performances. In 1964 he went to Oxford University as a Queens Scholar of history to continue his studies.

In 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber, transformed the original The Phantom of the Opera novel (written in 1911 by Gaston Leroux) into a dialogic, emotional masterpiece. The prologue starts at the end of the story, in an auction in the Paris Opera House, in 1905. Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny is buying a papier-mâché music box,

In the play Othello, jealousy is shown to be very evident through the actions of the characters. Jealousy is an emotion that everyone shares, and it is ultimately responsible for the tragic ending of the play. Everyone feels jealous at certain times of their lives, and this feeling can cause people to do irrational things. This human emotion also shows people to be weak in the sense that they are never happy with what they have. Shakespeare shows through Othello, Iago, Roderigo, and Brabantio that jealousy is the most corrupt and destructive emotion.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, is generally thought of as a comical romance. A very important factor that makes the whole play a comedy, is magic, which is used to affect the lives of four Athenians: Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius. Bottom, also a simple human, falls victim of the fairies’ mischievous magic. The magic reaches these characters by Puck, a naughty fairy, and Oberon, the king of fairies. Puck decides to cast a spell on Bottom, making him grow a donkey head, and Oberon decides to cast a spell on Titania, making her fall in love with Bottom. From a simple mistaken spell, a rollercoaster of emotions, conflicts and laughter emerge. Magic is

Critics have debated the significance of Othello’s race in terms of portraying his identity for a long time. The negative connotations of “blackness” have led to the creation of many racial constructs associated with the “Moor”; this denigration has infused the opinions of many critics, such as Albert Gerard, proposing that Othello’s “negroid physiognomy” reaches down to the “deepest levels of personality” and that he is a “barbarian”. However, many other critics like Edward Berry and Martin Orkin believe that colour is merely a “surface indicator” compared to the outward virtue of beneficence, defining identity. Beneficence could be defined by the will to practice good acts, in conjunction with the aversion of practicing evil, and the prevention and removal of evil.

     In the novel, Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, we are introduced to a character