Had such a book existed? Wasn’t there some old, stale tale about a composer getting acid thrown in his face and having his manuscript taken? Remake of Universal Pictures by Hammer Horror. The antique book, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, then dropped to the ground. They argued that both had the same “thrills and laughing.” What then? I’d had great success turning well-known stories of romance and drama into musical productions that included songs, lots of action, and lots of comedy, but I didn’t want to adapt another Dumas, Hugo, or Stoker. “When I strolled into that old junk – shop and browsed through the tatty books my mind was on other matters…”Īt the Lancaster Repertory Theatre, Dracula had been a resounding success, and people were clamoring for another concept. For the music of Verdi, Gounod, Offenbach, Mozart, Weber, Donizetti, and Boito, Hill created the original English lyrics. This is the first musical version of Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera, which tells the story of the horribly deformed Phantom’s passionate fascination with the gorgeous, impressionable singer Christine. Ken Hill wrote the script and lyrics for the 1976 musical Phantom of the Opera. Phantom of the Opera (1976) Ken Hill’s Phantom of the Opera Read 17 Interesting facts about Gaston Leroux’s ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ here. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”

“If I am the phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so. In the book, there were several very lovely passages. It was challenging for me to read the book since it read so much like a historical recreation of facts. The story draws some of its inspiration from actual nineteenth-century occurrences at the Paris Opera as well as an urban legend about the use of a former ballet student’s bones in Hector Berlioz’s 1841 performance of Der Freischütz. There wouldn’t be a Phantom of the Opera today without Gaston Leroux’s original rendition of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra. (first released in 1909) The original Gaston Leroux Novel Book: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux by Gaston le Roux

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