Christine Daaé: Lisanne Clémence Veeneman (u/s Lillian Maandag, Leonie Kappmeyer)
Phantom: Anton Zetterholm (u/s Roy Goldman, Greg Castiglioni, Robert Meyer)
Raoul: Roy Goldman (u/s Jev Davis, Niels Bouwmeester)
Carlotta: Milica Jovanović (u/s Amal El-Shrafi)
André: Rob Pelzer (u/s Florian Fetterle, Timo Verse)
Firmin: Thomas Sigwald (u/s Dean Welterlen, Dejan Brkic)
Madame Giry: Patricia Nessy (u/s Eva Maria Bender, Birgit Arquin)
Meg: Laura May Croucher (u/s Julia Hübner)
Piangi: Greg Castiglioni (u/s Florian Fetterle, Robert Meyer, Marco Trespioli)
An interesting moment from POTO Vienna that I’d never caught before! After the Phantom disappears through the trapdoor in Masquerade, everybody runs over to try and find him.
On May 5, [Gaetano] Donizetti was present at the ceremony memorializing Napoleon on the twentieth anniversary of his death. Writing to Antonio Vasselli on May 6, he said: “Yesterday (May 5) I went to the funeral service for the death of Napoleon. It was touching to see all those who served: some of them even had the uniforms of that period, moth-eaten, threadbare, frazzled; many had had them made new. They kissed the lid, the imperial crown; they wept, and Moncey, the oldest marshal, who is almost a hundred years old, was in dress uniform.”
Context: The year was 1841. Marshal Moncey passed away a year later in 1842.
Source: Herbert Weinstock, Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, pg. 167
Happy Opening to Phantom Vienna! Here are some new production photos that can be found here (x). Featuring some decent Sylvan Glade dresses, an updated Star Princess, a London-style boat, and the return of Christine's red scarf!