The Phantom of the Opera
1. Obviously, the main art discipline in
The Phantom of the Opera is music. The movie was filled with opera: a theatrical presentation in which a dramatic performance is set to music. Therefore, the script was sung instead of spoken, most of the time. Another art discipline was dance. The most specific scene where dance was used was the masquerade party scene. All of the cast had to have been choreographed in order to perform this dance. Also, theater was used in
The Phantom of the Opera. Most of the movie was set in the Paris Opera House, where operas, which are mainly theater plays set to music, were performed. The viewer was shown several scenes where the actors were having dress rehearsal for their operas. Another art discipline was visual art. The Phantom would create little figures in his home, the recesses of the opera house. These figures represented the actors and actresses of the Paris Opera House. He would move them how he wanted them, representing what he wanted them to do. The final art discipline was movie. Being as this rendition of
The Phantom of the Opera was a movie, this would be the best explanation. However, the beginning of the movie, which shows the Paris Opera House in 1910, makes it look like the movie is being filmed because the picture has that "old timey" feeling on screen, and it is in black and white.
2. Angel of Music
In this song, Christine is sitting at a shrine she's made for her father right after her first performance as the leading role in the opera. Meg, as well as the Phantom are calling for Christine. Finally Meg finds Christine and wished to know her secret of how she's such a great singer. Christine tells Meg that when she was little, her father told her that she was going to be protected by an angel of music, but he didn't tell her who it would be. Meg then asks Christine if she believes that it is her father that is coaching her. Christine knows that someone is coaching her, but she doesn't know exactly who it is. Meg then thinks that Christine is crazy and says that she is talking in riddles and it's not like her. Finally, Christine summons the Angel of Music and says that he's with her now, but it frightens her. During the opera, only Meg and Christine are in the room, and that is where they stay for most of the song.
1. The opera begins with the proclamation that Princess Turandot will marry the first prince of royal birth who can answer three riddles. If the prince fails to answer them correctly, he will be beheaded. Many men try, but none succeed. Then the Prince of Persia wants to take on the challenge and correctly answers all three riddles. Even though he has "won" the princess, he gives her a chance to get rid of him. He then lets her have til dawn to figure out his name. If she wins then he dies. Later, Timur and Liu are brought in and Turandot questions Timur, but at the last second Liu states that she loves the Prince. Realizing that she will now never be able to have the Prince, she kills herself. Next, Turandot admits to the Prince that she had loved him all along. The Prince then tells Turandot his name, but she then tells her father that his name is Love. They then live happily.
