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Due to Driver's lack of experience in opera, her singing voice was dubbed by opera singer Margaret Preece, although she lent her actual voice to the song ' Learn to Be Lonely' during the end credits. In the Lloyd Webber- Joel Schumacher 2004 film version, she was played by Minnie Driver. Carlotta and tenor Ubaldo Piangi are lovers she often turns to him for consolation when things go wrong, and she breaks down crying when his murdered body is discovered onstage. The opera company's prima donna, she despises Christine Daaé and sees the younger woman as a threat to her job and Phantom's courtesan, when Christine achieves prominence due to the Phantom's dirty tricks. In Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical production, Carlotta (last name Giudicelli) is from Italy and is one of the major singing parts. Biancarolli who has been drugged by the Phantom and murdered along with her maid when she tries to force him to take off his prop mask. These changes are also the same in the 1929 silent, foreign cut of the film (which is most commonly viewed). Virginia Pearson still appeared in new scenes, now playing Carlotta's mother. In 1929, new sound scenes were filmed and Mary Fabian was recast as Carlotta, due to the fact that she could sing. Ashamed, she hides from the public view for a few weeks, before making a return to the opera house.Ĭarlotta is portrayed by Virginia Pearson in the original 1925 silent film with Lon Chaney. When she does, however, croaking noises come out of her mouth and the chandelier comes crashing down. She shrugs the warning off and performs anyway. Later in the novel, she is threatened by Erik that if she performs at the Opera House 'a great misfortune will strike'.

The first time that she is mentioned in the novel is during the chapter 'The New Marguerite', where it is revealed that she could not perform at the ceremony for the former managers. In the novel, she is a minor character hailing from Spain. She is the leading soprano at the Paris Opera House who is criticised by the narrator and the Phantom for the lack of emotion in her performances. Carlotta is a fictional character from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera.

Royal albert hall phantom of the opera cast