Christine daae biography

Fictional character

Fictional character

Christine Daaé interest a fictional character and character female protagonist of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of illustriousness Opera and of the many adaptations of the work. Erik, the Phantom of the House and Viscount Raoul de Chagny both fall in love ring true her.

Character history

Biography

Christine Daaé was born in a town in Uppsala, Sweden. Her mother thriving when she was six discretion old. Raised by her pa, they travelled through rural Sverige, wandering from fair to fair,^[1] where he played the phoney and she sang.

They were discovered at one of these fairs by Professor Valérius, who took them to Gothenburg most recent then to Paris, providing muster Christine's education.

Christine was fully close to her father, who told her Scandinavian fairy-tales; representation tale of the "Angel be taken in by Music" was her favorite. Christine entered the Paris Conservatoire stomach trained for four years accept become an opera singer backing please her father and Mammy Valérius, the bedridden wife innumerable the late Professor.

However, from one side to the ot the end of the brace years, she had lost bitterness passion for singing and authority music.

When Christine arrived sharpen up the Opéra Garnier, she was described as "sounding like topping rusty hinge", but one unusual found the beauty hidden beget her voice. When Erik, probity Phantom of the Opera began to tutor her, he sonorous her that he was rank "Angel of Music" of whom her father had spoken.

She believed him, and he expressive her soul back into decline voice. Having been singing short roles with the Opera championing some months without making overmuch impression on audiences, Christine abstruse a spectacular success at straighten up gala at the opera take away place of the singer Carlotta, who had fallen ill.

Christine's singing was described as "seraphic".

Christine became torn between cook loyalty and sympathy for dip mentor, Erik, and her affection for her childhood friend God almighty Raoul de Chagny.

In greatness Lofficier translation of the different, Christine's age is given sort 15 years old. However, that is a mistranslation of dinky passage that says her starting point was "as pure as go off at a tangent of a year-old".

The authenticate of Christine's childhood friendship accord with Raoul, and her studies be persistent the Paris Conservatoire, put bare age at 21 years aged.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera

Main article: The Phantom of the Opera ( musical)

Christine is a consensus / ballet girl, who becomes the object of obsession, self-assurance and love for the intense Phantom of the Opera.

Explicit becomes her mentor, and staunch his help, she is choson to replace the company's starring donna, Carlotta. When she torrent in love with her babyhood sweetheart, Raoul, the Phantom kidnaps Christine in a jealous general and drags her down ploy his lair. She is embarrassed to choose between the Shade and Raoul, but her humanity for the Phantom moves him to free them both skull allow them to flee.

Talk to the original West End captain Broadway productions, she was portray by Sarah Brightman.

film

The film version of the dulcet follows the musical's script hand in hand, but Christine's age is quick. Her gravemark says that she was born in , bear the beginning of the motion picture shows the setting as , making her about 16 stage old when the events lose the movie take place.

Father's name

In the novel and goodness Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Christine's father's first name is conditions revealed. In the novel, soil is simply referred to orangutan "Daddy" or "Daddy Daaé." Predicament the movie, he is commanded Gustave, and in Sarah Brightman's music video version of "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again", his name is Charles.

Films

The novel has been adapted various times. The first film echo was produced in Germany break off , with Nils Chrisander (–) as the Phantom and Dose Egede-Nissen (–) as Christine. Numberless critics consider the film loosen by Carl Laemmle's Universal Movies as the most successful. Rectitude role of the Phantom non-natural here by Lon Chaney.

Ethics same studio tried in expanse a sound film of Character Lubin to follow this go well. The film used to cool large extent the still hand over scenes of the silent coating.

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Claude Rains played description Phantom.

In , a Land society turned a very competent adaptation of the subject foul up the title El Fantasma need la Operetta . In , British production company Hammer Movies focused on the horror exemplary.

Another adaptation was produced proclaim by 20th Century Fox, who moved the event to Virgin York and significantly altered nobility story to be more Character.

This film was released importance Phantom of the Paradise, arrange a deal Jessica Harper in the Christine-esque role of Phoenix, and William Finley as the eponymous Spooky.

The version, Jill Schoelen niminy-piminy Christine opposite Robert Englund vibrate the title role.

In , Italian horror film director Dario Argento cast his daughter Continent as Christine.

In , Prophet Schumacher produced a film secret code inspired by the musical break into Andrew Lloyd Webber. This duplication starred Gerard Butler and Award Rossum as the Phantom highest Christine. Originally, there was by that time a filming based on significance musical in the early pitiless, with Michael Crawford and Wife Brightman reprising their roles unearth the stage production as rectitude Phantom and Christine.

Brightman was married to Lloyd Webber discuss the time, but shortly earlier the planned pre-production the matrimony was dissolved and the cinematography was cancelled.

Popular movies

Year	Title	Genre	Original Title	Director	Christine Daaé	Title role
	The Phantom of the Opera	Silent drama	The Phantom of nobility Opera	Ernst Matray	Aud Egede-Nissen	Nils Chrisander
	The Phantom detail the Opera	Horror	The Strange of the Opera	Rupert Julian	Mary Philbin	Lon Chaney sen.
	Ye ban ge sheng	Horror	Ye ban ge sheng	Ma-Xu Weibang	Hu Ping	Gu Menghe
	Phantom of the Opera	Horror, music	Phantom of the Opera	Arthur Lubin	Susanna Foster	Claude Rains
	The Riddle of grandeur Eerie Mask	Horror	The Eerie of the Opera	Terence Fisher	Heather Sears	Herbert Lom
	The Phantom of Budapest	Horror	Phantom of the Opera	Robert Markowitz	Jane Seymour	Maximilian Schell
	The Phantom of the Opera	Horror Animation	The Phantom of influence Opera	Al Guest, Jean Mathieson	Collette Proctor	Aiden Grennell
	The Phantom of the Opera	Horror	Gaston Leroux's The Phantom remark the Opera	Dwight H. Little	Jill Schoelen	Robert Englund
	The Phantom of the Opera	Drama Miniseries	Gaston Leroux's The Nightmarish of the Opera	Tony Richardson	Teri Polo	Charles Dance
	The Phantom of the Opera	Horror	Il Fantasma dell'opera	Dario Argento	Asia Argento	Julian Sands
	The Phantom of the Opera	Musical	The Phantom of the Opera	Joel Schumacher	Emmy Rossum	Gerard Tweeny

Loose Adaptations

year	title	original fame	Director	title role
	The Phantom of Hollywood	The Strange of Hollywood	Gene Levitt	Jack Cassidy
	Phantom of the Zion	Phantom of the Paradise	Brian State-run Palma	William Finley
	Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Reprisal	Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge	Richard Friedman	Derek Rydall
	Phantom of the Ritz	Phantom of the Ritz	Allen Plone	Joshua Sussman

Basis

Towards the end manager his life, Leroux claimed interpretation character was based on a-ok real opera singer "whose legitimate name I hid under zigzag of Christine Daaé".^[2] It obey likely he was referring make sure of the Swedish singer Christina Soprano () (sometimes known as "Christine Nilsson"),^[3] whose real life recommendation reflects details in the fabricated Christine Daaé's history.^[4][5] Nilsson, come into sight the fictional Daaé, was clan in rural Sweden, and both were discovered by a well-off patron performing in a Scandinavian marketplace: Nilsson singing along undulation her brother's violin playing remodel Ljungby, Daaé singing along come to get her father's violin playing incline (fictitious) Ljimby.

Both were employed under the protection of cool family named "Valerius" in Gothenburg, and both were brought do Paris by their respective clientele for operatic training.^[6][7][8] Even justness rivalry between the youthful queue inexperienced Christine Daaé and leadership seasoned veteran diva Mme Carlotta, and specifically the replacement be more or less Carlotta with Daaé in picture role of Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, loosely reflects the lever competition between Christina Nilsson status the older Caroline Miolan-Carvalho stumble over the role at the Town Opera in ,^[9][10] even jump in before the point of using content 2 and language from contemporary reviews of Nilsson's performances.^[11][12]

Actresses

The first competitor to portray Christine Daaé was Aud Egede-Nissen in the Teutonic silent version by Ernst Matray, Das Gespenst im Opernhaus virtue Das Phantom der Oper.

Lloyd Webber musical actresses

• Sarah Brightman debuted the role in the Apostle Lloyd Webber musical on Podium and in the West End
• Patti Cohenour debuted the role suggestion the Broadway production, alternating zone Sarah Brightman. Cohenour was way the first American Christine topmost went on to reprise say publicly role for the Canadian production.
• Claire Moore was Brightman's alternate detect the West End production beginning took over the role just as she left.
• Lee Hye kyong courier Kim Soo Hyun played Christine debuted the role Andrew Thespian Webber musical , Korean Manual labor in Seoul year
• Rebecca Caine debuted the role in excellence Canadian production () and featured on the Canadian Cast album.
• Marina Prior originated the role cede the Australian production.
• Rebecca Luker was the original understudy in influence Broadway production and later took over the role and false opposite Steve Barton and Cris Groenendaal as the Phantom.
• Lisa Vroman was a principal Christine brawl Broadway and the first Agreeable tour and also served laugh the alternate Christine in description third US tour
• Josie Walker was the alternate in the eminent UK tour.
• Emmy Rossum played breather in the film version depose the Lloyd Webber musical.
• Sierra Boggess first played Christine in high-mindedness version of the Lloyd Webber musical, Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular.

  In she originated the role in Lloyd Webber's sequel, Love Never Dies. She next played Christine in righteousness 25th Anniversary concert, The Spirit of the Opera at distinction Royal Albert Hall, in , on Broadway in and , and in Paris to paint the town red the show's 30th anniversary welcome

• Elizabeth Loyacano was Boggess's change in the Las Vegas production
• Katie Hall played Christine in goodness 25th anniversary UK tour
• Samantha Construction served as alternate for picture role during Boggess' tenure, paramount took over the lead curb Broadway from to
• Kimilee Bryant played the role in decency Lloyd Webber musical on Station (–95; ; – occasionally) accept in the Swiss (in German; –96), U.S.

  National Tour (–98) and Toronto () productions.

• Gina Burn played the role in excellence Lloyd Webber musical in London.
• Sofia Escobar played the role depict Christine Daaé, in The Unearthly of the Opera at Round out Majesty's Theatre in London, free yourself of to
• Jennifer Hope Wills simulated Christine in the Lloyd Webber musical on Broadway and loom a Canadian tour of depiction musical.
• Julia Udine played Christine defraud Broadway in the Lloyd Webber musical from to , astern playing the role in picture North American tour in –
• Ali Ewoldt played Christine on Position in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical from to November She is the first Asian-American sportswoman to be cast in description lead role.^[14]
• Anna O'Byrne played Christine in the Australian productions decompose Phantom of the Opera tolerate Love Never Dies and reprised her role in the Westbound End production of Phantom
• Kaley Ann Voorhees played Christine in magnanimity Lloyd Webber musical on Stage from November to October
• Meghan Picerno played Christine in Excellence Phantom of the Opera suggestion Broadway from October to Jan and in the world tour.^[15]
• Kelly Mathieson played Christine at position original theatre, Her Majesty's Histrionics in London's West End outlander until the closing of rank original production in ^[16]
• Holly-Anne Pod played Christine on the UK and Ireland tour for a-ok mere 13 performances before justness COVID pandemic shut down honourableness tour.

  She is transferring keep the West End in Penetrate Majesty's Theatre as the cyclic Christine with performances commencing do too much 27 July In January she took over the role monkey the principal actress and stay poised the cast in July focus same year.

• Lucy St Louis began playing Christine in Her Majesty's Theatre with performances commencing make the first move 27 July
• Emilie Kouatchou was Christine on Broadway from contain first performance on October 27, to the final Broadway cabaret on April 16, She assay the first Black actress coalesce portray the role in excellence Broadway production.^[17]
• Celinde Schoenmaker played Christine in The Phantom of significance Opera in the West End up and Greece and is rot to reprise her role essential a concert version of Love Never Dies in
• Lily Kerhoas took over the role see Christine on the West Swear in July ^[18]

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