I think it is a broadway play because it is an opera (the setting) but the music isn't really opera. Can anyone help me out?
2006-09-24 07:53:36 · 19 answers · asked by ? 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
It is a Broadway musical set in an opera house. I think the songs the actors sing while they are playing opera singers in the middle of an opera could be categorized as opera music.
2006-09-24 08:03:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the creators meant it to be an opera but I've never seen it on Broadway so I'm not sure.
2006-09-24 08:02:18 · answer #2 · answered by Report Abuse 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not an opera. It's a musical (musical theatre). The story is set in the Paris Opera House. It is based on the novel written by Gaston Leroux.
2014-02-19 14:10:32 · answer #3 · answered by sang_dee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a broadway musical about a opera. which is confusing but yeah
2006-09-24 08:17:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was originally an opera, but was turned into a broadway play.
2006-09-24 08:00:43 · answer #5 · answered by Star G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both, Broadyway is pop-culture musicals, but the origional Phantom I believe had been presented as an opera orat least to promote opera for the mainstream!
2006-09-24 08:02:44 · answer #6 · answered by namazanyc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was originally a novel that was adapted as a musical by andrew lloyd webber. it is a musical that takes place in an opera house, but it's not an opera in and of itself. the style of singing is definitely more of the original bel canto style which is what italian opera is known for, (as compared to the more popular style broadway musicals with a contemporay style of singing as in RENT)
2006-09-24 09:06:28 · answer #7 · answered by karen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phantom has been a play, an opera and a movie
2006-09-24 08:15:50 · answer #8 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a broadway musical which are considered plays set to music.
-Chrystaille
2006-09-25 04:58:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on book. He originally saw it as a rock opera, but developed a range of songs of different styles, as in his other works. For a more personal view from someone who acted in it, try Michael Crawford's autobiography "Parcel arrived safely, tied up with string".
2006-09-24 08:29:43 · answer #10 · answered by scylax 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋