Midori namedropping me really put the fear of God into me now every time I post I feel like I have to add a disclaimer like Heyyyyyy girl please ignore that I'm a huge sex pervert about the tiniest crumbs of rivalry-flavored girl-on-girl action! I promise I'm nice and well adjusted 👍
Stream Notes: Sneezed on the Beat and the Beat Got Sikker
Saturday, July 4, 2026 (link to Deb's post)
Copenhagen (2019): Tomas Ambt Kofod, Sibylle Glosted, Christian Lund
This post is inspired by and written for @greenstripedcat who usually does the stream notes but couldn't make it tonight.
Thank you SO MUCH @eaggesalat for translating throughout the night for us!!! This show goes HARD in Danish.
Prior to the show starting, @dimmedghosts declared us all honorary Mexicans for tomorrow's World Cup game (fuck england). I didn't know that's how nationality works but I'm so into it:
@dimmedghosts: i need you guys to manifest my beautiful mexico winning tomorrow sunday against england 🙏
@dimmedghosts: ty pookies i love u all. youre all mexican now btw
@eaggesalat tells us that "secure" in Danish is "sikker"
Auction/Il Muto
Chat fights over the skulls:
@BrendaDaaeDestler: no IM buying the skulls
@motelpearl: sneezed on the beat and the beat got sikker
@carlottadefender: I love how gruff this auctioneer is
@phaptomoftheopera: i have a feeling this is the kind of night im going to keep forgetting this is in a language i dont know
@wismoth: DANISH WIFE TIIIIIIME
@64feet: pretty wife
@simpforghostie (this is cowboyj): She's so beautiful 😭😭😭
@dot-qhost: sexy wife
@wismoth: I wanna put a ring on her shower her in flowers and watts and crystals an-
@rosered: Chandelier has so many lovely flickers, the candelight effect is great
@GlassPrism: That's Louise Fribo as Carlotta! She was an LND Christine and a fantastic opera singer
@marumotto: yess this Carlotta is dressed like what she is . A gift.
@dot-qhost: OH THE MASSIVE BOW @dot-qhost: BUTTBOW!!!!
@angelofmusicals87614: This was the Production that had the Actor playing Andre as one of the Raoul Understudies Right? @glassprism: Yes I believe it was
@from-aldebaran: Celina is not here this evening (so far).
@paper-faces: celina is actually about 10 of these accounts and shes not typing to not give herself away.
@from-aldebaran: Racehl LOL (I'm not fixing that spelling error that's too good sorry deb LOL)
@warpweight: how how i love u hannibal ballet weird snakey arms move.
@dot-qhost: meg wig is so beautiful @dot-ghost: if meg has no fans im dead
On Danish as a Language:
@musical-ingenue-wannabe: so far danish sounds like german mixed with dutch, with a touch of weed
@dimmedghosts: if u told me this is what they speak in lord of the rings i'd believe you
@lizzie-boredom: this is another made up language
@CowboyJ: I keep forgetting this is in Danish and jumpscaring myself, but I'm eternally impressed with the quality its soooooo good
On Pronouncing Joseph Buquet:
@paper-faces: BEEKAY
@adrien: bickie
@phaptomoftheopera: BK
@dimmedghosts: biqué
@dot-ghost: piqué
Continuing on...
@dot-ghost: that point was lethal
@rosered: talk to the hand!!
@musical-ingenue-wannabe: i love this carlotta's take on this speech
@dot-ghost: SASSY QUEEN
@songdancepsychopaths: TELL THEM
@eaggesalat: adiamo
@carlottadefender: so fabulous
@songdancepsychopaths: incredible fur throw
@eaggesalat: amatører
@marumotto: She really called him like a dog <3
FRANKFURT
Quick SWM Check:
@lizzie-boredom: Hey did anyone do a SWM check tonight??
@paper_faces: oh yeah good call
@paper_faces: YO ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GOLF?
@dot-qhost: SAMUEL WYN MORRIS IF YOU ARE IN HERE YOU VBETTER NOT BE
@maroogaly: SWM if you're here you legally have to tell us
Okay no SWM to be seen. Continuing on...
@after-perfect: I like the pirouettes of fright across the stage
@adrien1614: awww meg so supportive
@from-aldebaran: Sikker and twisted
@marumotto: YES this Christine has such a rich warm tone to her voice, almost like a mezzo and then Erik has such a light voice..its like poetry it rhymes idk
@savemefromysolitude: i love light voice eriks but i've never seen a lower register christine.. oog
@warpweight: omg i forgot this raoul is such a yellow labrador retriever
@ashloraptor: That was a voice you could apply the descriptor, "angelic", to.
@CowboyJ: In a perfect world meg and christine would've ended up together
@CowboyJ: I do maintain that erikstine is toxic yuri though @carlottadefender: cowboyj sayyyyy that
@CowboyJ: As a professional yearning lesbian, poor sewer boy yearns in a way sapphics only know
@adrien1614: loving all the hi res costume details
@rosered: Excellent shot of her shoes, I want those
@dimmedghosts: egg do they say "angel of music" or something else? @eaggesalat: herrer og angel which is master an angel
@Kuudereluney: demon of sound has a nice ring
@motelpearl: but think of how immersive the fireworks will be during the pewpew battle
HE enters...
@64feet: everyone is feeling super normal here i see
@warpweight: OSTENTATIOUS MOANING DIVA
@faceofbeast: i live for the moaners
@from-aldebaran: Warp that sounds like some sort of radio alphabet like Foxtrot Tango Delta
@songdancepsychopaths: bi-panic intensifies
@Kuudereluney: I'm too bi for this musical
@backlitmademoiselle: love when that high note becomes a sort of desperate plea. yes thank you so much
HAND ON HAND. SWOONS. Sorry I couldn't get a better picture I was in SHOCK.
@from-aldebaran: Should I rewind before he screws everything up? OH TOO LATE
@paper-faces: if america can survive 250 years surely this guy can win ONE TIME
@litloverscorsetlaces: The lip, the contour, the BROW. Yasss boo
@marumotto: "another sex bop, damn"
He raises his fist at her in STYDI.
@carlottadefender: damn he sold that really well as like, the first kind thing anyone's ever done for him. and then quickly realizing he cant think too much about it or he'll kill himself
@dimmedghosts: youre texting her im spying her from inside her mirror, we are not the same
@litloverscorsetlaces: Daddying gaze between managers
@Kuudereluney: A letter for the managers, Fuck you guys in particular, Pay me my money or else
@songdancepsychopaths: if theres a non-gay explanation for Firmin and Andre i dont want to hear it
Via @eaggesalat: fantomet på operaen
@warpweight: this andre is so good sgjldkfg @warpweight: his timing and expressions, real life cartoon
@marumotto: Damn this Firmin got a voice like Don Atillo
@carlottadefender: her earrings. serve
@64feet: It might just be the high quality of the recording but I love that you can hear the countermelody really clearly here
@carlottadefender: (in danish) herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
@marumotto: God this Carlotta got some Magic Flute going on
@wismoth: his bi awakening in this version is Christine in trousers
@motelpearl: alw shouldve made hannibal, il muto and don juan triumphant as phantom spinoffs instead of LND
@PhantoonsOfTheOpera: Way back ALW said he wanted to adapt Phantom into a full-blown opera and have it performed at La Scala in Milan.
@wismoth: the cackling cackler at it again
@savemefromysolitude: ah yes, time to say that there's no phantom of the opera after he kills a man
@dimmedghosts: there is no queen of england
@from-aldebaran: There is no Easter bunny, there is no tooth fairy, and there is no Queen of England!
@dot-qhost: and there is NO OPERA GHOST
@warpweight: theyre so cute ugh it's like he's a kindly wall @warpweight: he's like the barricade between the road and the bike lane.
@opera-ghost: if he's a wall and the phantom is in the walls. then what
@carlottadefender: this guy being respectful vs erik curling a fist at her yeah man you're hosed
We become R/C truthers for a few minutes:
@songdancepsychopaths: cant they all just get married :(
@opera-ghost: i hate raoul and erik equally #misandry
@dimmedghosts: sopping wet crying over the consequences of his actions
MASKEBAL
@wismoth: the symbolic meaning to the half man half woman masquerader being the one who fucks with Raoul and Christine is that it's Rik and his lack of gender identity awakens their polyamorous desires. in this essay I will-
@paper-faces: can we please talk about how erik is trying to get women with bangers like "your chains are still mine they belong to me"
@paper-faces: mad rizz
@CowboyJ: paper_faces unfortunately that would work on me because I'm terrible
@paper-faces: cowboyj yeah thats going in the notes
@GlassPrism: Nose boop coming
@marumotto: He's like a golden retriever and someone just pretended to throw the ball
Wishing reminds us that we love women...
@opera-ghost: im lost in her own thot too fr
@faceofbeast: i lik when women maaaake low notes
@opera-ghost: i like when women
@songdancepsychopaths: i like when women
@rosered: I like women
@faceofbeast: more roles with low notes 2k26
@marumotto: When people are wearing red white and blue today its for HER
@warpweight: ughhh her voice sounds so gleaming and clear but richly coloured like stained glass
@GlassPrism: That cloak ripples so nicely
@Bway-Ghost: I love that her singing tone is darker than the average christine
TRIO, FAIR REACHING (sorta, cuz Danish)
Fish wasn't here, so Deb filled in. She chose a similar line instead of Fish's designated line LOL
SIKKER!
PONR and Final Lair was ROUGH. However our one comedic reprieve was Barb's leg sticking out and stealing the show. Iconic.
This phantom does NOT make it to Coney Island. Right before he disappears under the cloak, he does this dramatic hand gesture like he's brushing something off. Or saying "whatever." I can't describe it well and I am unable to find an image of what I'm looking for on the internet.
@paper-faces: okay hes saying the music isnt even worth it anymore with that hand wave and if the music isnt worth it, neither is life. hes definitely dead.
All the Europeans are clapping together in time with each other. It's weird but apparently normal for Europe?
Final thought:
@faceofbeast: love when actors do phantom instead of therapy
thumbs up
and i love when 50+ people watch actors do phantom instead of therapy :)
well-written women who narratively suck are like crack cocaine to me. hello shitty little woman do you need some crumbs of love that you've clearly never been given? lol
i love stagings where christine is still worried that erik will hurt raoul even after the kiss. like she has just bestowed on him the greatest kindness and affection he has ever known but she doesn’t trust him. maybe she has forgiven him or could forgive him in time but her faith in him? gone entirely. and erik realizes it in that moment. he is trying to fix the mess he made and he sees her start to reach towards them in fear and he understands that even for all her kindness christine will always expect the worst from him. and why shouldn’t she?
Anton Zetterholm, Lisanne Clémence, Niels Bouwmeester
This was posted on YT by someone who has posted MANY shows from Austria (no other POTOs, but if you're a Cats fan...).
Anton Zetterholm played The Phantom, but Christine and Raoul were not listed by the original poster, so I messaged and another YouTuber answered:
"As far as I know, Christine was played by Lisanne Clémence in the closing night. But Roy Goldman had to leave the production a few weeks earlier for personal reasons, so in the closing night Raoul was played by Niels Bouwmeester."
So until anyone else answers otherwise, I'm going with that info.
Note 1: Act 2 is over an hour because there is about 13 minutes of roaring and applause at the end!
Note 2: There is some sort of blooper about 50 minutes into Act 1 - one of the Managers apparently said/did something wrong or unexpected (perhaps intentional... after all it was Closing Night)
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