Phantom of the Opera: The Motion Picture (1989) on Netflix
Christine Day, an opera singer in Manhattan, sings from an old score. A stage accident sends her to London, 1885, as understudy to the diva La Carlotta.
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Plot summary
In Manhattan, Christine Day, an opera singer preparing an audition, needs a piece to sing. Meg, a friend who manages her, finds an old score, Don Juan Triumphant, and the two look into its composer, Erik Destler, whom they connect to murders and to a singer who disappeared. Singing the worn pages alone, Christine sees blood well from the notes onto her hands; the sight fades when Meg comes back. At the audition, a falling sandbag strikes her and breaks a mirror. She wakes in London in 1885 dressed in opera clothes, with a different Meg there. She is the understudy of the diva La Carlotta, who resents her voice. In her dressing room, Erik Destler's voice tells her he is her teacher, an angel sent by her late father, and presses her to take Carlotta's role in Faust.
Cast
- Nathan Lewisas Davies
- Peter Claphamas Harrison
- Emma Rawsonas Meg (London)
- Jaclyn Mendozaas Maddie
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Phantom of the Opera: The Motion Picture (1989)
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- After Cannon Films filed for bankruptcy, the project went to 21st Century Film Corporation, which planned a sequel called The Phantom of the Opera 2: Terror in Manhattan, set in the sewers of present-day Manhattan. Television writer Duke Sandefur was hired to add present-day bookends tying the film to that sequel; the sequel was never made but the bookends stayed in.
- The film was shot in Kecskemét, Hungary, which served as the Opera House interiors and exteriors, and to save costs it used sets already built for Menahem Golan's Mack the Knife.
- Stephanie Lawrence said her worst scene was having to sit in a bath for a whole day, and that the crew made it so hot it was like sitting on top of a kettle.
