"The Phantom of the Opera"

The play about the life, love and death of Eric, the phantom, the ghost of the Paris Opera Theater, differs in many ways from Leroux's novel "The Phantom of the Opera" ("The Phantom of the Opera") and the Broadway musical of the same name to the music of Webber.

His music has echoes of operettas, and it evokes associations with old American musical films.

The plot is based on the melodramatic relationship between the aspiring singer Kristin and the patron of the Opera, Count de Chando, and her music teacher Eric, who has reasons to hide his face under a mask. Eric spent his whole life in the cellars of the opera house, where his own father, the manager of the Opera, hid him from prying eyes.

There is also a place for comedy in the play. The scenes involving the new manager Cholet and his wife, Prima Carlotta, are deliberately comical. Eric himself is not devoid of a sense of humor, true, humor is a little black, but that's life in the basement. The first act is quite light and light, it outlines the circle of relationships between the characters. It ends tragically: the phantom drops a chandelier on the stage, and this is a hint that everything will only get worse from now on. The second act is much more dramatic, there is a conflict between Kristin and Eric, who exposed his face at her request. In it, one of the most touching scenes in the play is the duet of a father and son, a former manager and a phantom. They finally reunite, but, alas, not for long, only to part forever: the phantom dies after receiving the first and last kiss in his life from Kristin.