The Phantom of the Opera

"The Phantom of the Opera" (2004) is a musical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Joel Schumacher. It brings Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-breaking stage production to the big screen for the first time, with Webber co-producing and the original score intact.

Beneath the Paris Opera House in the nineteenth century, a masked musical prodigy has spent years shaping the voice of a young soprano named Christine. He composes for her, coaches her, terrifies the management — and calls himself her Angel of Music. Gerard Butler plays the Phantom as a man whose obsession has curdled into something dangerous. Emmy Rossum, cast as Christine, sang every note herself on a debut that caught the industry off guard. Patrick Wilson plays Raoul, the young viscount who offers Christine a way out of the underground.

Schumacher filled the production with candlelit grandeur, enormous sets, and the full weight of a score that has played in the West End and on Broadway for four decades. Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, and Ciaran Hinds complete the principal cast. Stream "The Phantom of the Opera" online on iFILM.