![]() ![]() Raoul, who represents new love, life, going on, after a significant loss is in a fight with the phantom/father who has a hold on Christine that’s almost impossible to break. To keep her father with her, she must choose the Phantom over Raoul. Phantom, then, is her dead angel father – her angel of music. Her father, with his violin, was a man of music too. There couldn’t be a clearer link between Phantom and Christine’s father. The angel of music is Phantom, and with this memory we hear his voice, critical of Raoul, seducing Christine with his song. And I have been visited by the angel of music.” She tells Raoul that Father promised to send the angel of music to her when he was in heaven. ![]() Christine remembers Father playing the violin, that she loved being asleep in her bed as “the angel of music sings songs in my head”. When Christine is reunited with Raoul ( Jeremy Hays), her childhood friend, their memories threaten to bring back reality. The Phantom Of The Opera tells the story, throughout all of its most important songs, of just such a retreat from sadness and grief. We see Christine’s struggle between the Phantom and Raoul, between turning her back on reality or turning towards feeling and life. If Christine stays with Phantom, she retreats from the risks of love, from knowing her father is gone. ![]() You won’t be hurt again.” This voice is the Phantom’s in Music Of The Night. ![]() Wraps you in his seemingly comforting words: “Stay with me. What happens when you can’t say goodbye? Sometimes, a seductive phantom-like voice takes over inside your mind, a voice that kidnaps you away from life. When a loved one dies, mourning is necessary to go on. At a much deeper level, it’s the story of an orphaned girl in the grips of a phantom father. As I sat spellbound in the Majestic Theater watching the brilliant performances of James Barbour as Phantom and Julia Udine as Christine Daad, I knew that The Phantom Of The Opera isn’t only the story of a bitter, jealous, love-starved freak that believes he can only get love by possession and threat. If you move forward, you’ll know the person you love is gone. ![]()
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