In a feverish three months, often scribbling down images from his nightmares, he completed what would be his most memorable work. Leroux saw in the Opera House a mirror of the Belle Époque society that passed through its halls: beautiful, stately and refined on the outside, with an undercurrent of secrecy and horror lurking just below the surface. His reporter’s instincts aroused, Leroux studied the Opera House, exploring it from the pinnacles of its rooftops to the slimy underground caverns. The Opera House had already had its share of mysterious accidents when, on, a counterweight of the seven-tonne chandelier had fallen into the audience, killing a concierge.
Several unexplainable deaths had been attributed to this spectre, and backstage gossip only fuelled the story. Down Once More.In the early 1900s, during one of his frequent visits to the Paris Opera House, journalist and novelist Gaston Leroux began to hear rumours of a ghost that haunted the old building. Why Have You Brought Me Here/Raoul, I've Been ThereĠ7. I Remember./Stranger Than You Dreamt Itġ2. Little Lotte./The Mirror (Angel Of Music)Ġ8. Lloyd Webber), who uses her powerful voice to stunning advantage on "All I Ask of You" and "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again." Crawford's gorgeous, hushed vocal dazzles in the memorable showpiece, "The Music of the Night," as spectacular and definitive a Broadway moment as any in the last half-century. This double-disc, original cast recording also features costar Sarah Brightman (the former Mrs.
The very last word in swoony romanticism, honey-tenored Crawford stormed Broadway and jumped-started a late-career revival that has yet to slow down. 1988's The Phantom of The Opera, perhaps the finest effort of Lord Webber's career, began life with a particularly human heart beating at its center: Michael Crawford's Phantom. As much a brand name as a composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber never does anything In a small way.
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