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The managers grant her an audition.Īudition and performance merge and, from the managers’ box, the young Raoul, patron of the Opera House, voices his enthusiasm for the new star. Christine has been taking singing lessons, but is unable (or unwilling) to say from whom. Meg, Madame Giry’s daughter, suggests to André and Firmin that her friend and fellow dancer Christine Daaé could take Carlotta’s place. Madame Giry, the ballet mistress, hands the managers a note from ‘the opera ghost’ demanding a salary and a free box at the opera. The new managers learn that there have been too many accidents. Carlotta storms out, leaving the new production without a star. There are murmurs among the company that it must have been the work of ‘the ghost’. André asks the prima donna, Carlotta, to sing, but a sandbag falls suddenly from the flies, almost killing her. He introduces the new managers, André and Firmin. LeFèvre, manager of the Opera House, arrives and explains to the company that he is retiring. See them bring the Phantom’s extraordinary world to life, complete with a massive cast of musical theatre and opera’s top talents accompanied by a live orchestra hidden beneath the stage.Ī new opera, Hannibal, is in rehearsal. Two of Australia’s most in-demand theatrical talents, director Simon Phillips and designer Gabriela Tylesova, bring a whole new level of spectacle to the show’s defining moments - the mirror, the journey to the Phantom’s lair, the chandelier - on an enormous purposebuilt stage over the water. The story of a mysterious masked man who lives beneath the Paris Opera House, and the beautiful young singer who becomes his obsession and muse, seduces generation after generation and continues to enchant long-time devotees.Īndrew Lloyd Webber’s score - immortalised in one of the highest-selling cast albums of all time - is studded with melodies famous the world over: from the haunting beauty of ‘The Music of the Night’ and ‘All I Ask of You’, to the splendour of ‘Masquerade’, and the crashing chords of the title song. Having played for 35 years on the West End, and 34 on Broadway, this inspired interpretation of Gaston Leroux’s novel remains one of the world’s favourite musicals. With fireworks every night and themed pop-up bars and restaurants, this will be an unforgettable evening. Under the stars, on a floating stage with the Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge and city skyline glittering in the background. This is The Phantom of the Opera as you’ve never seen it before. The longest-running show in musical history is coming to the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour stage in a dazzling new production. Experience the phenomenon as the Music of the Night resounds across Sydney Harbour.