It features new direction by Laurence Connor, new scenic design by Paul Brown, lighting design by Tony Award ®-winner Paule Constable, sound design by Mick Potter, new choreography by Scott Ambler and the original, Tony Award ®-winning costume design by Maria Björnson. Now, you can hear them all in a spectacular new production that has stunned critics across the United Kingdom and North America. Hit after hit punctuates the thrilling score, from the stunning romance of ‘Music of the Night’, ‘Think of Me’ and ‘All I Ask of You’ to the splendid ‘Masquerade’ and brilliant title song. Leroux’s novel would go on to be adapted many times, including into a legendary 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary musical.Experience the phenomenon of one of the most successful musicals of all time, when Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary show comes to Melbourne. In a feverish three months, often scribbling down images from his nightmares, he completed what would be his most memorable work. Leroux saw in the Opera House a mirror of the Belle Époque society that passed through its halls: beautiful, stately and refined on the outside, with an undercurrent of secrecy and horror lurking just below the surface. His reporter’s instincts aroused, Leroux studied the Opera House, exploring it from the pinnacles of its rooftops to the slimy underground caverns. The Opera House had already had its share of mysterious accidents when, on, a counterweight of the seven-tonne chandelier had fallen into the audience, killing a concierge.
Several unexplainable deaths had been attributed to this spectre, and backstage gossip only fuelled the story. In the early 1900s, during one of his frequent visits to the Paris Opera House, journalist and novelist Gaston Leroux began to hear rumours of a ghost that haunted the old building.
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