fate links thee to me

𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖆 𝖉𝖆𝖞.

[poorerik]

hi, i’m jelena !

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this is my phantom sideblog because andrew lloyd webber and joel schumacher made me insane in my formative years, and gaston leroux only made me worse.

here you will see simping over that old man, fic recs, fanart, audio bootlegs, video bootlegs, meta, and general fandom appreciation.

the venn-diagram of people who are unwell about phantom on tumblr dot com and bigots is typically made of circles that do not overlap, but dni if you are a terf or if you voted for trump. obviously.

divider credit: @/strangergraphics

[girljeremystrong]

[from-aldebaran]

Saturday, July 4, 2026 • 9 p.m. EST: Tomas Ambt Kofod, Sibylle Glosted & Christian Lund (Copenhagen 2019)

So to celebrate Independence Day here in the US, we will be highlighting the Kingdom of Denmark and its autonomous territory of Greenland by showing the fan favorite Copenhagen 2019 performance!

@wheel-of-fish has streamed this performance 8 times previously, as recently as December 20, 2025. But with a large number of people possibly unable to attend this weekend, I thought I would stream something that is guaranteed to be repeated again and again in the future. Fish and @glassprism have both called this one of the best casts and one of the highest quality recordings out there, with some amazing acting choices, including unusual quill placement and the boop heard 'round the world. I first saw this at a Stream before I had seen a live version (that was not the Restaged), and I specifically remember how well it captures the overall beauty of the show.

As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome!

⭐Link and password will be posted here at 8:45 the day of the stream.

⭐For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ 

⭐Remember to follow @from-aldebaran for stream posts going forward.

⭐PFPs featured on the Saturday Streams banner are left to right Streams Founder @operaofthephantom, 300 Club Streams Host @wheel-of-fish, new host @from-aldebaran, and our Phantom Founder, Gaston Leroux. Massive thanks to @opera-ghost for the PFP additions to Fish's original banner design.

⭐ Gifs by @wheel-of-fish

[litloverscorsetlaces]

Favorite Final Lairs

Peter Karrie & Elizabeth DeGrazia, Phantom of the Opera 1998

Hard to find a more unhinged final lair than this one. It is a serious emotional roller coaster, but there are so many Karrie things that are just uniquely...Karrie. Watching the way he moves as Erik is like looking at a masterclass in immersion.

[brillianttimbre]

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Hugh appeared to be much better with regard to the knee problem that kept him out of the show for nearly a week.  He invited me to walk with him, up the two flights of stairs from outside the music room, where he was unmasked, and across the floor to the escalator leading to the carnival.

Here is “Final Lair.” This performance was especially poignant.

Hugh Panaro, Audrey Logan (u/s), and Dan Hoy.  From “Masquerade,” based on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera.”

Sunday matinee, June 28, 2026 performance, 218 West 57th Street, New York City

[wordfather]

they're a problematic character TO YOU. they're problematic to me as well but I'm being weird and horny about it so it's different

[cinema-phantom]

"Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice."

[opera-ghost]

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Phantom by Susan Kay (1990)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onDec 13, 2024

[perrosguirec]

[64feet]

Hey, uh. This just destroyed me. Again.

This is hands-down my favourite end-of-STYDI ever caught on camera; I've said it before but it bears repeating that this moment in the show really defines for me both how I feel about an actor's Phantom portrayal and also how I feel about the Phantom/Christine relationship going on from here. (Like, this is the deciding factor in whether I spend the next 2 hours agonising over "they could have made it work!!!" versus being 100% on board with Christine running as far away as possible.)

ANYWAY. Ana Marina. Simon Pryce. Hands.

In my opinion it really paid off that they slowed down this scene and really let everyone marinate in the discomfort of it all. I'm obsessed with how she picks up the mask and looks at it almost reverentially before giving it back to him: it means something different to her now and that gesture itself is like... almost apologetic. She strokes the edge of it??? Hello???

And then most phantoms turn away here but he maintains eye contact with her the entire time, (and she with him! She doesn't look away!) and then there's the little tilt of the head with the nod and the smile like, it's ok (please please please let it be ok?) and how his hand hovers like he wants to reach out to her but doesn't dare - his discomfort and indecision are really, really palpable and I think this comes across as him very genuinely trying to process what has just happened, it reads to me as though he has - I don't know how to phrase it - dissociated beyond the point of embarrassment? Just sitting there staring at the woman he loves as if he isn't physically present in front of her at all.

Usually I see this scene played as though he's really so unused to human interaction that he thinks grabbing her arm and running off with her is the appropriate thing to do, but here it's like. He knows it isn't appropriate or right. He knows he has messed this up and whatever he does next will only make it worse, but he has to do something and he genuinely doesn't know what to do that will make it any better.

Because they let the moment linger you can feel that he's acutely aware of how out of his depth this all is and I just, aaargh. (And also, that few seconds where neither of them does anything makes it all the more intriguing that Christine doesn't offer him anything here - ie. usually it all happens so quickly you can forgive her just sitting there in shock, but this time it isn't like that and there are a few different ways that could be interpreted, I think).

[goriasis]

[from-aldebaran]

Saturday, June 27, 2026 • 9 p.m. EST

World Tour (2024): Harry Mills, Grace Roberts, Matt Leisy

After spending the last two Streams in London in the mid-2000s, we are leaping forward and westward to enjoy the current World Tour on a stop in China in 2024.

This week will be World Tour understudy Harry Mills' first appearance in the Saturday Streams. Harry has been a delight in various videos he has done for social media and it will be fantastic to see what he does on stage as the Phantom!

During Fish's 300 Streams run, Grace Roberts has been streamed three times with three different Phantoms: Jonathan Roxmouth, Ben Forster and Samuel Wyn-Morris

Matt Leisy has been streamed 5 times, three times with Jonathan Roxmouth and Meghan Picerno as his Phantom and Christine, and twice with Grace Roberts as his Christine to Phantoms Jonathan Roxmouth and Ben Forster.

This is a phone recording, so it will seem as though we are seated a bit further back than usual.

As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome!

⭐Link and password will be posted here at 8:45 the day of the stream.

⭐For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ 

⭐Remember to follow @from-aldebaran for stream posts going forward.

⭐PFPs featured on the Saturday Streams banner are left to right Streams Founder @operaofthephantom, 300 Club Streams Host @wheel-of-fish, new host @from-aldebaran, and our Phantom Founder, Gaston Leroux. Massive thanks to @opera-ghost for the PFP additions to Fish's original banner design.

⭐Featured screencap by @glassprism

[mortalityplays]

I truly don't think there's anything worse than an artsy theatre kid band trying to do a dark edgy song about domming someone. like it's giving dr horrible. I don't believe you.

[dailyphantomhands]

Samuel Wyn-Morris

[fdelopera]

Do you have a translation of the "I have no husband and I shall never marry" passage? Thank you!

Hi Anon! Thanks for your question. Here is that quote from Phantom in Leroux’s original, and my translation of it:

« C’est un engagement que je ne vous demande point, et c’est une promesse que je ne vous ferai pas! prononça la jeune fille avec fierté. Je suis libre de mes actions, monsieur de Chagny; vous n’avez aucun droit à les contrôler et je vous prierai de vous en dispenser désormais. Quant à ce que j’ai fait depuis quinze jours, il n’y a qu’un homme au monde qui aurait le droit d’exiger que je lui en fasse le récit: mon mari! Or, je n’ai pas de mari, et je ne me marierai jamais! »

Translation:

“That is a pledge that I do not ask of you, and it is a promise that I shall not make you!” spoke the young woman proudly. “I am a free agent, monsieur de Chagny; you have no right to control my actions and I will ask that you desist henceforth. As for what I have done during the past fortnight, there is only one man in the world who would have the right to demand that I give him an account: my husband! Well, I have no husband, and I shall never marry!”

[muirin007]

It’s even better in French!!!

[blairwolfwerewolf]

*Leroux fans chanting* CHRISTINE! CHRISTINE! CHRISTINE!

[sleepiestoken]

you’re turned on. he’s on the floor in tears and you’re turned on.