The Phantom of the Opera

Album: The Phantom of the Opera (1986)
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  • Christine:
    In sleep he sang to me
    In dreams he came
    That voice which calls to me
    And speaks my name
    And do I dream again?
    For now I find
    The Phantom of the Opera is there,
    Inside my mind

    Phantom:
    Sing once again with me
    Our strange duet
    My power over you
    Grows stronger yet
    And though you turn from me
    To glance behind
    The Phantom of the Opera is there
    Inside your mind

    Christine:
    Those who have seen your face
    Draw back in fear
    I am the mask you wear

    Phantom:
    It's me they hear

    Both:
    My/Your spirit and my/your voice
    In one combined
    The Phantom of the Opera is there
    Inside my/your mind

    Chorus:
    He's there
    The Phantom of the Opera
    Beware the Phantom of the Opera

    Phantom:
    In all your fantasies you always knew
    That man and mystery

    Christine:
    Were both in you

    Both:
    And in this labyrinth
    Where night is blind
    The Phantom of the Opera is here/there
    Inside my/your mind

    Phantom:
    Sing, my Angel of Music

    Christine:
    He's there,
    The Phantom of the Opera . .







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Comments: 12

  • Megan from Stevenson, AlMy band played this as our opener for our halftime show last year! It was AMAZING! I love the movie too!!!
  • Breanna from Henderson, NvI love this play it's absolutly amazing! I think it's totaly brillant! I always feel really sorry for the Phantom though. I'm so obsessed with it that I know the entire 2ct act by heart.
  • Bryan Weers from Battle Creek, MiThe part of Christine was written for Webber's then wife(and the person who played her in the London cast) Sarah Brightman
  • Rachel from Minneapolis, MnI love Phantom of the Opera! It is a good musical, with classic music. ALW does a wonderful job, so screw the rest of you who think both are overrated. This is the best movie in the entire world, and I can't wait for it to come to MN 2009!!! I'm EXTREMELY EXCITED!!!
  • Dominic from San Francisco, CaThe Phantom of the Opera is my favorite musical. The movie's pretty good, but absolutely nothing beats the original 1986 London cast in my opinion.

    By the way, wake up, Bruno, Beethoven is very overrated. Not that he's not great. But you have to admit, he is a little overrated. I mean, one can tire of "dum-dum-dum-DUM" from his 5th.

    And yeah, ALW apparently did steal the tune, but I don't care. I lile ALW and Puccini. They're both great!
  • Chae from Chicago, IlI like how the melody is used over and over. :/
  • Luigi Camperchioli from Valley Village, CaWow, by calling Puccini's music "trash" you just showed how much you know about opera. or music in general for that matter.
  • Nicholas from Keller, TxI don't see you producing any operas with such universal success as Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, Manon Lescaut, or Turandot. Puccini isn't the most respected composer, but his melodies are some of the greatest ever written, part of the reason people are still talking about him, and not Bruno.
  • Bruno from Okemos, MiSo Mr. Lloyd Webber used Puccini as a "model"? It shouldn't surprised me. Both guys' music are overrated, sacharine, meretricious, syruppy and plain boring. [Maybe I'll give a few credits to "La Boheme" opera. But the rest is trash.] I know one composer of many who will kick Puccini and Lloyd Webber's pants: Ludwig van Beethoven. Enpugh said.
  • Michelle from Darlington, EnglandI love the new movie! And I love opera, so i really like this song! It's kinda of annoying sometimes when most of the songs are about passion and stuff like that though.
    Overall it's good!
  • Caitlin from Claremont, CaI extremely dislike this show. In fact, I extremely dislike Andrew Lloyd Webber altogether. I enjoy Evita from time to time, and Sunset Boulevard is good with a strong female lead, but ALW is SO overrated.

    Phantom of the Opera is one of the most unoriginal pieces of music I have ever heard. The songs are extremely repetitive and the main melody line is overused way mroe than is necessary. What's worst of all is that in the Phantom's song "Music of the Night", the entire melody is stolen from Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Fanciulla del West". Puccini is of course the composer behind "La Boheme" and "Turandot" among other operas. The estate of Giacomo Puccini actually sued "Sir" Andrew Lloyd Webber for this, but he managed to keep it out of the papers and settled out of court for a nice piece of cash. Puccini would have rolled over in his grave.

    This was nto the only time that ALW has stolen Puccini's music as pieces of music in "Cats" follow the same melodic line as pieces from Puccini's "Turandot".
  • Ranei from Ipswich, IrelandI love the movie.

    Love love love.

    Emphasis on Love.
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