Fantasma da ópera

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Director Bruno Bravo brings to the stage “O Fantasma da ópera” (The Phantom of the Opera), a Gothic novel by Gaston Leroux first published as a serial between 1909 and 1910. The theatrical appropriation of non-dramatic literature is a recurring practice with the Primeiros Sintomas company, as their productions of Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein” (2002) and Carlo Collodi's “Pinocchio” (2016). But the ambition of this gesture is amplified here. Bruno Bravo brings to the house of theatre contributions from various performing disciplines, organising a meeting between live music and movement, between songs and the amazing machinery of a stage, with its pageant of actors and characters. An undisciplined dialogue that echoes the spirit of the Paris Opera, the locus horrendus of “O Fantasma da ópera”, a venue where theatre, dance and music are presented. A phantom haunts its backstage areas, stairs and in the dressing rooms, grid and boxes, disturbing everyone with a series of deaths, accidents, spells. Erik is his nom de guerre, a disfigured flesh and blood phantom who falls in love with the voice of a young singer, Christine Daaé, both are the protagonists of one of the most tragic love stories of all times.