He also has a fantastic singing voice as you would expect from his stage pedigree. The role has been somewhat re-written here as a more swashbuckling physical adversary to the Phantom. Rossum could not have picked a more challenging role to make her big debut, but emerges triumphant.Patrick Wilson, a veteran of Broadway musicals, is perfectly-cast as Raoul. On stage the role of Christine is usually shared by two performers who alternate the 8 performance-week between them, so demanding is the role of Christine. "Think of Me", "All I Ask of You" and in particular her heart-wrenching "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again". A trained New York opera singer since childhood, Emmy Rossum sings Christine's intense and often very difficult arias to perfection. Little more than a teenager when she made her auspicious debut here as Christine, Miss Rossum is the innocent heart of the story. On the whole his performance is quite excellent.Emmy Rossum might very well be the real discovery in this movie. His singing voice is acceptable ("Music of the Night", the Phantom's aria, is sailed through with little trouble). As passions rise, Christine and Raoul are dragged to the brink of destruction as Erik vows to make Christine his bride.Gerard Butler is a fine Phantom, especially adept at making the role very human and vulnerable, yet also menacing and violent when the situation calls for it. Erik, too, becomes infatuated with his young pupil. Complications arise when Christine is reunited with her childhood sweetheart Raoul. In reality it is the feared Erik, phantom of the Paris Opera. Young diva Christine is mysteriously tutored by someone she believes is her `Angel of Music'. Though many people are still wondering why the film wasn't made with it's original stage leads Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, the energetic young cast featured add their own magic to the gothic love story.The story is well-known and I won't go into a blow-by-blow account. Joel Schumacher's film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is a perfect testemant to what has become the most successful stage production of all time. Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2005 Sparkling screen incarnation of Lloyd Webber's PHANTOM
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