In the movie "The Phatom of the Opera" (2004), Emmy Rossum played "Christine". I wonder if she really did the singing in the movie,which was wonderful. If not, does anyone know who did? ty ^^
2006-09-15 13:03:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
This is an excerpt from the website
http://phantomthemovie.warnerbros.com/
click on notes, then cast and characters... scroll down
Lightning struck when we found Emmy," Schumacher enthuses. "Not only is she an exquisite actress, but Emmy has trained at the Metropolitan Opera since she was seven. She came in at the last second and almost didn't screen test because she had to go to a family reunion in Las Vegas. I had to talk her out of it!"
"We met on a Thursday, and Joel said 'Can you be in New York on Saturday for a screen test?'" recalls Rossum, who had just wrapped her starring role in the disaster epic The Day After Tomorrow. "Then about a week later I went to sing for Andrew at his house, which was very nerve-wracking! I was warming up with the accompanist when Andrew walked into the room, sat down without introducing himself and said 'Shall we?'"
As she proved at her audition, "Emmy has got a fantastic voice," Lloyd Webber attests.
To prepare for her role, Rossum took dance lessons, toured the famed Garnier Opera House in Paris, on which the Opera Populaire is loosely based, and visited the Musée D'Orsay to study Degas' paintings and sculptures of ballerinas, many of which were based on the dancers from the Garnier Opera company. "The biggest challenge for me was finding a balance between my voice and my acting," Rossum says. "It was important that my acting be at the same level as it would be in a normal film, so I had to find a place at which my voice and my acting meshed in a way that felt natural."
She actually did do the singing... AMAZING
2006-09-15 14:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by wingnutrosie 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Emmy Rossum was in fact a singer long before she started acting. At the age of 7 she joined the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus as a child opera singer.
It is most definitely her real voice. Obviously her lips don't always match up with the singing in the film because they record the songs at different times. The quality wouldn't be good enough if she sang it during filming.
But check the soundtrack. It's her.
2006-09-15 13:17:31 · answer #2 · answered by Penny1001 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
She sang all her own songs, as did the rest of the cast and in keeping with the stage play, musical re-writes were done so that the songs could be direct to the indiviual singers ranges. Infact I beleive that the 3 principles (Raoul, Phantom and Christine) actually rehearsed and performed in broadway production.
2006-09-15 13:09:57 · answer #3 · answered by hamletoedipus 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
He sang "Shock The Monkey".
2016-03-27 03:24:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She sang in the movie.
2006-09-15 13:05:58 · answer #5 · answered by citrusy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think she did the singing herself cuz i remember her going on leno and singing.
2006-09-15 13:05:15 · answer #6 · answered by nickname 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
She did her own singing.
http://www.phantomoftheoperasoundtrack.com/
2006-09-15 13:11:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
She did.
2006-09-15 13:04:47 · answer #8 · answered by anonymous 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋