Norwich Film Festival: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) + Live Score by Minima

Schedule

Mon, 03 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm

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Location

Norwich Playhouse Theatre | Norwich, EN

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After a sell-out performance of Nosferatu in 2024, Minima return to Norwich Film Festival at the Playhouse to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera (1925), accompanying the film with an electrifying original live score.
Minima have specialised in live accompaniment to screenings of silent films since 2006. Their electrifying original score for The Phantom of the Opera captures the horror of the story, but also finds pathos, romance and humour. Drums, bass, guitar and cello strike up a thrilling relationship with the film, following the Phantom down into his subterranean nightmare world.
Beneath the sewers of the Paris Opera House dwells a masked figure. He is the Phantom, a hideously disfigured composer whose dream is to turn chorus singer Christine into a diva. Lon Chaney, the “Man of a Thousand Faces”, dominates this classic adaptation of the 1910 novel. His ghastly make-up and outrageous performance made The Phantom of the Opera one of the great classics of American silent film.
Fast-moving and exciting, the film is a dramatic tale of obsession, kidnap, murder and revenge, beautifully tinted throughout and featuring an impressive sequence of early Technicolor as the Phantom appears at a Masked Ball.
This is the original film version of Phantom which inspired numerous remakes. It was a critical and commercial success upon release, as these press quotes from the time contest: an “ultra fantastic melodrama” (New York Times); “produced on a stupendous scale” (Moving Picture World); “probably the greatest inducement to nightmare that has yet been screened” (Variety)
When can you purchase tickets?
Norwich Theatre 'Gold Friends' - 22nd April 2025
Norwich Theatre 'Friends' - 23rd April 2025
Norwich Theatre General Public - 25th April 2025
https://norwichtheatre.org/whats-on/
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Norwich Playhouse Theatre, 4 Theatre Street, Norwich, NR2 1QY, United Kingdom

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