In addition, Rossum said The Phantom of the Opera is a character-driven story for her even though it is visually sumptuous.Universal Pictures is developing a new feature film take on The Phantom of the Opera. “When I talked to Joel about it I said that the one important thing for me was that she is the one real centre in all this theatricality.” Rossum stressed that Christine had to be relatable to audiences. “Because that was the most important thing to me,” she said.

While Rossum was playing an actor, she didn’t want her performance to be theatrical.

I went to the Musee d’Orsay and looked at Degas’ paintings of ballerinas to learn how to stand like them.” Then I went underneath the opera house and hung out in the lair and there is actually a lake underneath and it’s dark and foggy so it’s really kind of scary down there. I went to the Garnier opera house in Paris and I stood on the roof where Christine stands to sing ‘All I Ask Of You,’ so I developed sense memories like that. “I basically developed the character from my imagination. “I had classical training but I don’t consider myself an opera singer though, and this is more a hybrid of pop and classical music,” she revealed. RELATED: Pink Floyd: Was ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Stolen From Them? But is Rossum an opera singer or merely an actor who played an opera singer? Around the time of the film’s release, Rossum told the BBC about her relationship to music. Does Emmy Rossum consider herself an opera singer?Ĭonsidering opera is pivotal to the story, casting an opera singer as Christine would be an obvious choice. In 2004, Rossum made the role of Christine, an opera singer, her own in Joel Schumacher’s film version of the musical. In 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber released his stage musical adaptation of the book which is sung-through. Although singing is central to the milieu of the book, for many years, the most famous film version of the story was actually a 1925 silent film. Gaston Leroux’s novel, The Phantom of the Opera, is both set in an opera house and weaves opera music into its plot. This raises an interesting question: Is Rossum actually an opera singer? Emmy Rossum | Andy Butterton – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images The long, ironic history of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’įirstly, a little background. However, actors don’t always draw from their experiences when playing roles.

Emmy Rossum starred as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera, which is likely the most famous movie ever about opera music.

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