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everytime i remember this i need to lie down for a minute

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all the opera pieces sung in leroux's the phantom of the opera

gounod's roméo et juliette; leroux only says christine sings some excerpts from it on her first night covering for carlotta and he doesn't clarify further, i like to think she also sang the poison aria at some point (especially considering later in the novel christine tries to kill herself in erik's lair)

the prison scene and final trio from gounod's faust, the piece that makes the parisian audience fall in love with christine as raoul and erik watch. it was also used in the 1990 miniseries!

when christine isn't covering for carlotta, she's playing siebel en travesti, and faites-lui mes aveux is the aria she's singing on the night the chandelier falls when she makes eye contact with raoul and her voice falters - while he starts sobbing violently to everyone else's confusion

the jewel aria is the aria that makes the audience go mad for carlotta

during that same performance of faust, while singing act 3's last duet il se fait tard, carlotta croaks at the end of the line that starts at 2.20

erik sings nuit d'hyménée from gounod's roméo et juliette, the wedding night duet (he gives her a ring that night), as raoul watches christine walk through the mirror after the masked ball

la romanza di desdemona from rossini's othello, which erik (!) sings to christine after bringing her to the lair for the first time

othello and desdemona's duet from rossini's othello, which erik and christine are singing together when she unmasks him (now this is me being pedant, but the masks probably comes off at around 9.18 in this recording, considering leroux has christine react by saying "horror! horror!" which is what desdemona is repeating here, and immediately after erik phisically attacks her in anger much like othello does)

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insane dynamic. *drops him gently on the bank* "are you fucking stupid i could have fucking killed you and you're so fucking annoying i still might" "that was so cool how did you do that" "well you see..."

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a few years after his death already his appearance doesn't matter anymore, his transgressions and his crimes don't matter anymore, and what does? the ring, the proof he has loved. gnawing and biting

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erik switching from vous to tu with christine when she takes his mask off🫠

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never forget erik used that chandelier to murder someone for madame giry specifically

#he dropped it to scare the managers too but he sure took care to aim right #'and the voice was so soft and kind' abfghh #also 'don't be frightened i'm a ghost'. thanks erik #lfreread #lfdlo #poto #madame giry #the phantom of the opera #le fantome de l'opera #erik the phantom

see it's so very very important to me that raoul can play some violin, loves the same music as christine, that they have "the same calm and dreamy little cast of mind", that they both love ghost stories! they're so close, they have many things in common! and then as a teenager he has already learned class separates them. it's unfortunate but realistic that philippe loves his little brother very much but can only support his affection for christine as long as he thinks it's an unofficial flirt like his with la sorelli and marriage is out of the question. meanwhile raoul never stops loving her and looking for her, especially when she arrives at the opera, but never dares to take a step further (and christine wouldn't let him either, she too is aware of this and tells him later that though she loves him she knows marrying him would mean being accused of seducing him and ruining him, which she couldn't bear). and the thing is he manages to change! leroux starts the novel by telling us he has disappeared with christine, nobody knows where he is, he lost most of his riches, his name, his reputation, his brother (whom most people think he murdered, an accusation he never shows up to defend himself from even though we know he loved him tremendously), he gave up everything for her! and he was willing to help her leave paris even when he still thought she'd never marry him! he loved his brother but realized he had to reject his view of the world, and it's so very important he gets there. to live how he wants to live, with christine, he accepts he has to quit being the vicomte de chagny and return to being simply raoul. and of course: when he meets her again in ber dressing room he doesn't introduce himself with his title or name but as "the boy who went into the sea to fetch your scarf". (interestingly musical!raoul never seems concerned with the scandal his marrying christine would inevitably cause ("it's an engagement not a crime!"), he's clearly past that which, like, good for him and for us, but of course that takes away a huge part of his growth in the original story. the scandalous quality of their relationship is still there, but it's framed more as relatively harmless gossip ("the vicomte, her lover!", ""a chorus girl who's gone and slept with the patron") and it doesn't really impact their choices, there's never the sense either of them has to give up something while originally they gave up everything and basically went to live outside the narrative, outside society, not as alone and deep in the dark as erik was forced to go but still similarly to him)

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crazy that with that "horror!" i think leorux pretty much tells us exactly when in the duet christine tears erik's mask off (around minute 9.18 in this recording where the crescendo leads to desdemona repeating "orror, orror")... and well the duet in general is a crazy choice on his part (english translation under the cut)