> You know I always thought they could auto-correct pitches and lengthen
> sung notes, etc.
The funny thing is, I'm sure everything is pitch
> corrected, shifted, filled in, brightened, sustained, and just about
> anything else you can do, and it SUCKS!!!! If you're going to dub Minnie
> Driver, why not the rest of the cast?
I think it was when Rossum
> sings, "imagine me trying to hard to put you from my mind" and
> blatantly cracks on "my" that I turned off this wretched CD.
> alas, it only gets worse. I would have to say all of the leads lack the
> lung power required of the score.
Ummmm, I'm a classically trained
> vocalist, and let me tell you , none of these folks have ever sung opera.
> I doubt they could get through an entire musical either. With so many
> promising broadway actors who have both film and theater roles, you would
> think they could take the time to find actors who were a decent fit.

> By the way, did Emmy Rossum's age bother anyone else? I mean come on,
> Raoul looked like he was thirty, the Phantom , 35 or older, and there's
> this like 16 year old girl. Last time I heard that was five to ten.
> Ewww....

dear dude,

for ppl that have never sung opera before, they did pretty darn good. and about the age, ppl in those years get married at 17 to men who are ten or more years their senior. and the phantom is supposed to be as old as madame giry, which is why he looks older. in the original book by gaston leroux, the phantom is beyond age. in andrew lloyd's he could possibly be even 60.
so, yes, it is ew, but that's the way it was back then. in the medieval era, girls got married at the age of 14 O_o. you would be considered an old spinster if you were 18-19 and unmarried back then.