So The Phantom Hates Carlotta Because?
Seriously, I remember wondering this the first time I watched the movie. And when I watched the musical.
I mean…it can’t be that she’s bad at her job, right?
Regardless of what the movie implies, why on earth would an opera house hire a soprano, and keep her for umpteen seasons, if she wasn’t any good at it?
Wherefore this intense loathing, dude?
It goes like this: Carlotta is a Diva with a capital D. She suffers no fools, she takes no crap, and she’s not short on confidence. She knows what she wants and she goes for it, regardless of anyone else’s opinions or feelings on the subject.
All of which will serve you well in the cutthroat world of opera.
(All things which Christine lacks. Stick with me, we’ll get to that.)
So…what if the Phantom approached Carlotta all those years ago when she first came to the Opera Populaire?
What if he pulled his whole brooding angel of music ‘look at your face in the mirror’ schtick on her?
Pictured: Not Gonna Happen.
I mean, Carlotta is at least a good ten years older than Christine, making her more of an age peer with His Royal Broodiness.
I really can’t imagine her consenting to take lessons from a mysterious masked creeper who randomly appears in her room one night. Can you?
Angel of Music? Don’t make her laugh. If anyone is the Angel of Music, it is surely La Carlotta Giudicelli, do you really think she’s going to take advice from a Peeping Tom in eveningwear?
Hell no. She’s way too good for that nonsense.
And so the Phantom hates Carlotta not because her acting is a bit shaky or her timbre is inadequate, but because she sent him off with a flea in his ear for
a) breaking into her room in the middle of the night, ew, and
b) suggesting she was in any way inadequate to the task of being the opera’s leading lady.
No wonder he made a beeline for Christine Daae. Naive, shy, quiet, orphan, not an outstanding talent, low self-esteem?
Easy target, man. Easy target.
Pictured: Sweet Summer Child.
TL;DR: The Phantom hates Carlotta because she wouldn’t date idolise pander to take singing lessons from him when she first arrived.
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