
This evening’s concert is sponsored by the Principal Friends of the Philharmonia Orchestra.
This very special event presents a live screening of Rupert Julian’s classic 1925 silent film of The Phantom of the Opera, accompanied by Carl Davis’s soundtrack performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra. More than 80 years after its première, Lon Chaney’s extraordinary performance as the Phantom – a crazed escapee from Devil’s Island, formerly imprisoned in a torture chamber on the site of the Paris opera – still has the power to shock; and the film is also notable for its sumptuous set-piece scenes, including a masked Ball in which the Phantom appears as the Red Death on the Grand Stairway.
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