the phantom from the phantom of the opera costume

In this re-imagined production, audiences are creatively transported into the Paris Opera House in the early 1900s and the stage of a colourful production of Hannibal. Audiences in theatres all over the world have marvelled at music and gasped at the falling chandelier, the boat, the pyrotechnics. The dark is even more gloomy and melancholy – the light even brighter and more carefree.Įarlier this year Sydney audiences watched the incredible spectacle of a brilliant production of “Phantom” in front of a backdrop of a shining, rain-cleansed harbour. In his new take on The Phantom accentuates that contrast.

“Phantom” is a story of contrasts: dark versus light, despair and vengeance versus optimism and joy. What a contrast it is to the colourful, lively world of the operas that are performed above him! In the bowels of the Paris Opera House, this ‘new’ Phantom hides away in a lush but dark world where flickering candles in gold candelabras cast shadows around an ancient keyboard, a strange music box and the few pieces of furniture he has collected to warm his lonely life. Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House. Opera Australia and The Really Useful Company, in association with Cameron Mackintosh.

By Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe.

The phantom from the phantom of the opera costume