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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 648
Released: November 23, 2004 |
| Our Price: $12.00 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Editorial Review:
2 CD Deluxe Collector's Edition, contains all of the music from the single disc plus other original score material featured in the film.
Description of The Phantom of the Opera (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack):
For better or worse, Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation of Gaston Leroux's gothic horror/romance novel has done for stage musicals what Spielberg's Jaws did for fish stories, with worldwide sales of its original cast album approaching 25 million. While director Joel Schumacher's film turns on his typically ambitious visual verve, its new film soundtrack recording has been paradoxically focused in scope, yet beefed up dynamically via the brawny presence of a hundred piece orchestra and the London Boys Choir. This deluxe, double-disc version showcases all of Phantom's key songs, with Gerard Butler imparting a welcome, youthful sensuality to his Phantom, making a fine foil for Emmy Rossum's ever-conflicted Christine. Original show orchestrator David Cullen has fashioned compelling new contemporary arrangements to frame Webber's songs--which now conclude with the lilting, upbeat new ballad he wrote for the film, "Learn to Be Lonely," sung by Minnie Driver. --Jerry McCulley
The Phantom of the Opera (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Reviews:
It's like seeing the movie through my memory. 
2008-06-13 - Some of the larger performances are my particular favorites, especially Masquerade. I just love Gerard Butlers performance.
Beautiful
2008-05-30 - I prefer Emmy Rossum's voice to Sarah Brightman - not nearly as "trilly", which I find annoying to listen to.
Just an wonderful soundtrack that takes you through the movie audibly. Love it!
"The Phantom of the Opera"2004 movie soundtrack-deluxe edition
2008-04-29 - I only saw this movie for the first time a few weeks ago, and was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the music. My only other contact with POTO was the 1943 movie.
The music is wonderful, beautifully composed, and I say ths as a music major in college. I felt the casting was excellent. If I want Opera singers, I will go for Opera, but this is a musical, and I feel that The leads were excellent. Christine is a teenager, so the casting of a teen for the part was correct. And Gerard Butler was great. He had both a good singing voice and also interpreted the scary and threatning parts of the musical dialogue extremely well. Plus he was a very romantic Phantom, even the facial disfigurement did not detract from feeling that all he wanted was for her to love him. When she went off with the wimpy count (and he is wimpy in the book by Gaston Leroux too) I was devastated for the Phantom. When she came back to give him the ring, and he was crying and said "Christine I Love You', it was enough to bring you to tears. I also appreciated that the movie was clean, and presented the love in a pure light, which surely does not hold true for most of the trash you see today. It made the beauty of the Phantom's love even more poignant than if he had "ravished her on the spot" which is so popular in today's culture. I also plan to buy the movie. This one is worth listening to and seeing over and over again. BTW-according to the book, it is a true story.
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2008-04-08 - Phantom of the Opera was great. I loved the music and could listen to it forever. The new CD arrived in great shape.
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2008-04-08 - I ordered a used copy of the CD Phantom of the Opera. The music is fine however the case was in disrepair when I got it in that I could not close the lid properly however it was used and perhaps next time new is better.
