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"Andrew Lloyd-Webber: the Government won't talk to me because they think I'm 'unhip'. "Read the Original Reviews From The Phantom of the Opera's 1988 Broadway Bow".

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British newspaper Lennox Herald wrote, "Familiar song which might be a hit again, given the high profiles of both stars." Pan-European magazine Music & Media said it is "easily the most beautifully executed song" off the Back To Broadway album, adding, "It will hypnotise anyone with a taste for real voices into playing it." A reviewer from People Magazine noted that Streisand, "crossing cadenzas with Broadway's first Phantom", Michael Crawford "goes for grandeur instead of intimacy and winds up with grandiosity." The Stage stated that they both are "squeezing the last drop" out of "Music of the Night". Ron Fell from the Gavin Report called the song "the year's most triumphant duet". It is taken from Streisand's album Back to Broadway and peaked at number 54 on the UK Singles Chart. In 1993, American singer Barbra Streisand and British actor Michael Crawford released a duet version of "The Music of the Night". Single by Barbra Streisand and Michael Crawford

2019: Alina Zagitova used the song on her short program while winning World Champion 2019 title in ladies event.īarbra Streisand & Michael Crawford version ġ993 single by Barbra Streisand & Michael Crawford "The Music of the Night".

2016: Marina Prior and Mark Vincent covered the song on their album Together.

2016: Mauro Calderon covered the song on his album Broadway and Éxitos.

This version included the words, "compose the music of the night".

2012: Jackie Evancho performed it for her movie-themed concert, Songs from the Silver Screen.

2010: Mark Vincent covered the song for his album Compass.

2010: Meryl Davis and Charlie White used the song when ice dancing at the Olympic Games in Vancouver and won a silver medal.

This version has different lyrics, replacing the line "To the power of the music that I write," with "To the harmony which dreams alone can write", and a different ending.

1992: Sarah Brightman recorded "The Music of the Night" for her solo album, Sarah Brightman Sings the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The song has also been covered by many artists. To promote The Phantom of the Opera's opening in London, the production's producers, The Really Useful Group, filmed a video starring Crawford and Sarah Brightman (who did not sing). An agreement was settled out of court and details were not released to the public.

The lyrics were very different from the ones used in the three variations of the song as lyricist Charles Hart had not yet become involved in the project.ĭue to similarities between the song and a recurring melody in Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera, La fanciulla del West ( The Girl of the Golden West), the Puccini estate filed lawsuit against Webber, accusing him of plagiarism. The Phantom was played by Colm Wilkinson. The audience were a specially gathered group of Webber's acquaintances. The lyrics were later rewritten and the song was added to The Phantom of the Opera.Ī year before The Phantom Of The Opera opened at Her Majesty's Theatre, the original version of the song was performed at Andrew Lloyd Webber's own theatre at Sydmonton, along with the first drafts of the show. That version had different lyrics and was called "Married Man". Sarah Brightman declared at the London's Royal Albert Hall Concert in 1997, that the song was originally written by Andrew Lloyd Webber for her, the first time he met her.

The Phantom then carries Christine to a bed, where he lays her down and goes on to write his music. When she approaches it, it suddenly moves, causing her to faint.

The Phantom leads Christine around his lair, eventually pulling back a curtain to reveal a mannequin dressed in a wedding gown resembling Christine. He sings of his unspoken love for her and urges her to forget the world and life she knew before. He seduces Christine with "his music" of the night, his voice putting her into a type of trance. "The Music of the Night" is sung after the Phantom lures Christine Daaé to his lair beneath the Opera House.

4 Barbra Streisand & Michael Crawford version.