The phantom of the opera, "The Phantom of the Opera," which began on the Dubai Opera House, is not limited to the element of the story, which is still the strongest love story embodied on the stage, but extends to the cinema and directing, the current version of the play produced by «Broadway» Entertainment has a lot of visual effects ranging from interactive decors on the stage, to vocal tricks, magic, lighting, and smoke, where the evolution of technology has been harnessed to provide a fun and spectacular view of the audience.
The show, which is one of the longest on the Dubai Opera, will last for four weeks, turning people into a very strong love story, in which the feelings of fear and sacrifice, love and passion, the world of music and opera overlap, as well as the magic of many scenes. .
The scene, which takes place in two scenes, tells the story of Christine Day, a girl who fascinates people with her voice at a retirement party at the Opera House.Raul sees his childhood friend, remembers his old love for her.He also likes the voice of the specter of opera Eric and decides to give her all his music to marry him. Events escalate when the specter of the opera decides to kidnap her to marry her and later forces her to choose between him and Raul after committing a crime.He tries to kill Raul.He chooses to preserve her boyfriend's life after threatening him.However, he later lets her escape with her lover and suffices with one kiss that makes him feel all his love. In his life, he dies of intense love, or he disappears from the stage in the closing scene. The Australian actress who plays Christine, Claire Leon, told Emirates Today about the show: “The audience interaction was very special with us on the first day, and Dubai is my first stop in the region. I played the role for the first time with Jonathan in 2012 in the Philippines. "But this offer in Dubai is one that doesn't die. It's also close to my heart." As for the main difficulties she faced, she pointed out that it lies in the fact that the work requires a lot of physical and vocal effort, with eight performances per week, explaining that sometimes they change their clothes in a short time during the show. Regarding love and facing all odds, she pointed out that the play was written in the late eighties and then the woman had not obtained her rights, and Christine needed a man to cast a shadow on him, and this made her relationship with the specter of the opera deep, because of his association with music like her, while if we decided that half Love in 2019 is supposed to come in various forms and face all the difficulties. She noted that Christine felt love for the ghost, which led to the existence of deep communication, while her love for Raul was similar to the stories of princesses and feel safe, unlike the ghost with whom she spent exciting times. For his part, the actor Jonathan Rexmouth, who plays the role of the ghost, that «the ghost is a nice figure other than what people may think through events, it carries a lot of anger in his personality, because of many things, including the renunciation of people because of its shape and face "In fact, he is at the top of intelligence. He is an engineer and a musician. He pointed out that it needs about an hour and 10 minutes to prepare before the play, because of the graphics that puts on the face, as he puts three different types of foundation cream and then colors, which requires a lot of time, pointing out that «work requires a lot of physical and emotional effort The voice and the role requires more and more tender each time, and more tender in the role puts the actor in front of more depth, which in turn brings out all the emotions inherent in the personality of pain, love and contradictory feelings ». "Climbing on the stage requires a lot of exercise before the stage," Rexmouth said, citing Pavarotti, who was practicing for 15 minutes. "If the end is tired after 15 minutes, it means the night will be harsh," he said. He noted that this role was on the list of roles he wished to play, while the actor Matt Lizzy, who played the role of Raul, confirmed that he started playing the role for the first time in this show in the region, and that the public retains the first impression of the work through his actor, he is excited The first impression that the Dubai public will have on personality is linked to it. He pointed out that the work enjoys the masses, as it is a presentation that has not seen himself in the past, pointing out that «requires a lot of skills in the sound, but in fact holds a distinct directing vision, make the character to go out comfortably».
History of the play
The play "The Phantom of the Opera" was based on the French novel by Gaston Leroux, and was originally written as a fiction series and published in the magazine «Gaulois» from September 1909 to January 1910. The play did not receive enough attention, but it was considered one of the masterpieces of French literature in the 20th century, It was translated into English in 1911, then produced in 1925 and 2004, and by Andrew Lloyd Webber as a musical, based on the story of one of Broadway's most successful plays and one of the earliest performances in theater history. Translated into Arabic by Pauline Francis and the delegation of Baraka and published by Academia Publishing.