![]() ![]() Only Les Miserables has been on stage longer than Phantom of the Opera. If for some reason you're not convinced by The Phantom of the Opera, or you've seen it and fallen in love with it, the West End has plenty of alternatives for you. Part of The Lion King Musical in London| ©tuveuxmaphoto More than 40 actors take part, including singers, chorus members, extras and dancers. In the play, the story is divided into a prologue and two acts, lasting two and a half hours with a 15-minute intermission. ![]() The protagonist's attempts to conquer the beautiful singer, who loves Raoul, an opera director, are the central axis of a passionate story of love and jealousy. ![]() But everything changes when Christine, a singer with whom the ghost falls absolutely in love, appears on the scene. The phantom rules the opera through the fear he provokes in its workers and through violence. The story revolves around a man with a disfigured face who hides behind a mask and lives in the depths of the Paris opera house. Each performance uses some 230 costume elements, 280 candles are lit by hand and the actors wear over 100 wigs. The Phantom of the Opera musical is a work by director Andrew Lloyd Webber, who brilliantly adapted the original novel by Gaston Leroux. ![]()
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