emmy rossum phantom of the opera christine

Webber's memorable songs are performed with aplomb by Rossum, whose background includes singing with the Metropolitan Opera, and Wilson and Butler provide ample accompaniment. But when his young student Christine falls for the rich and dapper Raoul (Patrick Wilson), the phantom descends into madness.

Dwelling in the dark, damp chambers beneath the Paris opera house, the phantom lords over the cast and management with artistic autocracy-he writes the shows, casts them, and threatens all who disobey his plans with dramatically violent outbursts.

Christine Daee (a luminescent Emmy Rossum) is a tortured young star who is haunted by the voice of the phantom (Gerard Butler-who also played the lead in DRACULA 2000), a musician who hides in the shadows to hide a facial disfigurement, yet sings to her obsessively. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, these moody set devices-and countless others-make every scene an atmospheric vision of souped-up 19th-century Gothic bliss. Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again.

Emmy rossum phantom of the opera christine