![]() ![]() "Past the Point of No Return" is another haunting song in this album. Lloyd Webber's music is powerfully emotive and the lyrics are passionate, and thus appeals to the listener's own emotions. Christine creates a sense of sadness as she sings of how she misses her father, and the listeners are coerced into pitying her situation. "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again", is a very stirring song on this album, as it is set in a graveyard. Once again the lyrics are superb, involving passionate description. This song has a touch of opera but is more of a 'musical' type song. "All I Ask of You" is one of the few positive songs in the album, which reveals the strong love between the main female character, Christine, and another central character, Raoul. A soft and haunting tune, this song's lyrics evoke fantastic description for listeners, and create a tension yet a resolution and are in fact rather paradoxical, but amazing to listen to, as it is powerfully beautiful. "The Music of the Night", one of Lloyd Webber's greatest pieces of music, is one of the most descriptive songs I have ever heard. As this song contains rock and opera it would appeal to a wider variety of listeners. The title song, "The Phantom of the Opera", involves the two leading characters, the Phantom and Christine, singing of how the former is incessantly in the mind of the latter. ![]() 'The Phantom of the Opera' consists of a number of songs which would appeal to listeners. With the combination of both Lloyd Webber's compelling music and the lyricists' words, 'The Phantom of the Opera' is infallible. The lyrics, written by Charles Strouse and Richard Stilgoe, are brilliantly descriptive which creates rich imagery for the listeners. ![]() Not only did he choose a fascinatingly mysterious story to create his operatic musical, but his music is so powerful and so stirring for the listener, that they become part of the action in the musical. The composer, Lloyd Webber, has simply out done himself in this album, more so than in any of his other fantastic musicals. Later, at the end of the graveyard scene and after the song "Wishing You were Somehow Here Again," the Phantom attempts to lure Christine to him by reprising "Angel of Music," but is interrupted by Raoul, who sings "Angel of darkness, cease this torment!" and departs with a torn Christine.When I first heard the music from 'The Phantom of the Opera' 4yrs ago, almost instantly, a surge of emotion and inspiration tingled up my spine and I was in awe of the brilliance of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Strouse, and Richard Stilgoe. "Little Lotte" is sung immediately after this. Prior to this, however, Christine confides to her ballerina friend Meg Giry that an Angel of Music visits her, and they sing a duet of "Angel of Music" as well. The song ends with the Phantom singing "I am your angel of music, come to the Angel of Music!" Raoul, expresses shock at hearing the Phantom's voice from outside Christine's dressing room, saying "Whose is that voice? Who is that in there?" She actually walks through the mirror of her room into the Phantom's tunnel. Christine slowly walks towards him, singing. An image of the Phantom appears singing to and hypnotising her. Assuming that he is the Angel of Music, the man who has been coaching her, she sings back about how she wishes to see his face. At the start of the song, the Phantom harshly criticizes Christine's childhood sweetheart, Raoul, saying that he is riding on her success. It is sung as a duet between Christine Daa é and The Phantom and is sung right after the song "Little Lotte" and right before the song "The Phantom of the Opera."ĭuring the song, Christine is getting ready for bed when she hears the Phantom poop singing to her. Angel of Music is a song from the stage musical The Phantom of the Opera composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. ![]()
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