Far Too Many Notes for My Taste

Linkable music references to all compositions mentioned in Leroux's novel. Still in progress, strives to be complete

The Phantom of the Opera (2004) dir. by Joel Schumacher

Like most of its silent contemporaries, The Phantom of the Opera made extensive use of color. An array of vibrant tints were used as storytelling tools, evoking different times of day, lighting conditions, and moods for each scene. But the film didn’t stop at these usual embellishments: one of the biggest productions of its year, Phantom also employed natural color systems Prizma Color and an early form of Technicolor in several sequences. For the famous “Apollo’s Lyre” scene in which Christine betrays the Phantom’s secret, the semi-automated Handschiegl color process was used to tint Erik’s lavish, billowing red cape. Sadly, no original print of Phantom survives today, and these tints are now lost—instead, preservationists have approximated them digitally, reconstructing the Phantom’s magnificent “Red Death” costume with the aid of computerized colorization in lieu of gelatin and dye.

Phantom of the Opera illustrations by Iren Horrors

Finally put my Palais Garnier pics to good use… been wanting to draw smth of the interior for a while now