#maria kesselman

[operafantomet]

Hello! Do you have photos or photoset of Christine's original Saloon Girl mask?

Not wildly many or wildly good, but here ya go:

Claire Moore, costume photo documentation by Marcus Tylor:

Maria Kesselman backstage:

Such a mask in Rebecca Caine's care today:

Maria Bjørnson's costume design (detail):

#phantom of the opera #saloon girl #bo peep #masquerade #phantom of the opera design #from design to costume #claire moore #maria kesselman #rebecca caine #maria bjørnson

[marleneoftheopera]

A comparison of the original and current Christine costumes in the West End. 

*Note that there are some variations in costumes between the current Christine’s.

#holly's tiktoks are always handy lol #Sarah Brightman #Claire Moore #maria kesselman #Rebecca Caine #lucy st louis #Holly-Anne Hull #anouk van laake #poto london #The Phantom of the Opera

[phantomchristinesuk]

Phantom London 36th Anniversary: Then & Now

Pictures: Operafantomet (tumblr), Phantom London (website), Holly-Anne Hull/Anouk van Laake/Eve Shanu-Wilson (instagram), Maria Kesselman (Facebook)

#phantomoftheopera #poto west end #poto london #phantom of the opera #sarah brightman #lucy st louis #claire moore #holly anne hull #maria kesselman #anouk van laake #Eve shanu Wilson

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

Especially for #WorldAnimalDay a collection of Phantom actors and their furry friends.

Maria Kesselman, Ethan Freeman, Sarah Brightman, Michael Crawford, Uwe Kröger, Joke de Kruijf, Scott Davies, Sierra Boggess and Hugh Panero

#phantom of the opera #poto #the phantom of the opera #pets #world animal day #cute #phan fluff

[glassprism]

Which actors would you like to see have a bootleg? I pray everday for a full video of Tabitha Webb. :(( I 'd like to know your opinion

Oh, a lot. Off the top of my head:

Claire Moore

Maria Kesselman

Rebecca Caine

Michael Ball

Elisabeth Berg

Claudia Dallinger

Johanne Brochmann

Glenda Balkan

Peter Jorde

Susanne Elmark

Kristin Holck

Mia Karlsson

Yoon Young Seok

Hye Kyoung Lee

Kim So Hyun

Tabitha Webb

Emilie Lynn

Monika Sommerova

Michelle van de Ven

Annemarijn Maandag

Celinde Schoenmaker

Isabel Schwartzbach

Astrid Giske

Beatrice Penny-Toure

And I'm going to stop there, but there's a whole lot more!

#GP gets asks #anonymous

[cdaae]

Happy birthday Maria Kesselman

#phantom of the opera #phantom #maria kesselman

[love-little-lotte]

Best-Looking Christines

Here are some Christines that I think are really pretty and gorgeous. For the record, every actress who played Christine is beautiful, but these gals are the ones who stood out, imo.

Anna O’Byrne

Choi Hyun Joo

Claire Doyle

Claire Lyon

Emilie Lynn

Gina Beck

Harriet Jones

Jennifer Hope Wills

Joke de Kruijf

Kim So Hyun

Maike Switzer

Maria Kesselman

Mary D’Arcy

Olivia Brereton

Rebecca Luker

Samantha Hill

Sierra Boggess

Sofia Escobar

Susan Owen

Tamara Kotova

#the phantom of the opera #christine daae #best-looking christine #anna o'byrne #choi hyun joo #claire doyle #claire lyon #emilie lynn #gina beck #harriet jones #jennifer hope wills #joke de kruijf #kim so hyun #maike switzer #maria kesselman #mary d'arcy #olivia brereton #rebecca luker #samantha hill #sierra boggess #sofia escobar #susan owen #tamara kotova

[ifyouhappentoremember]

try to forgive, teach me to live

#The Phantom of the Opera #Phantom of the Opera #poto london #maria kesselman #my graphic #if you happen queue remember #my edit #my edit

[oblivi-ace97]

I don’t know if this is a popular opinion or not but Maria Kesselman sounds like a siren luring sailors to their death and it’s beautiful! 

#I was just listening to an audio of her in phantom and like I want that to be the last thing I hear before I die #maria kesselman is a goddess #so beautiful #phantom of the opera #musicals #christine daae #maria kesselman

[andrewlloydwebber]

Maria Kesselman (u/s Christine in the original London production). Recolor by me, please recredit if posting on Instagram. The reason Michael Crawford and the table aren’t colored in is because I got too tired to finish... maybe one day.

Photograph by Marcus Tylor, original Raoul dresser. For more photos like this, I recommend buying The Phantom of the Opera, the First Year Backstage (available on Amazon and iBooks).

#maria kesselman #phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #christine daae #my edit #my recolor

[operafantomet]

THE PORTCULLIS. CAUSE LEGENDARY.

John Owen-Jones, West End

John Owen-jones (probably), West End

Tomas Ambt Kofod and Sibylle Glosted, Copenhagen revival

Same

Hugh Panaro and Samantha Hill, Broadway

Masachika Ichimura and unidentified, Tokyo

Song Eun Hye and Choi Jae Rim, Busan or Seoul

Jon Robyns, West End revival

Ashley Stillburn and Paige Blankson, West End revival

Thomas Schulze and Colby Thomas, Hamburg

Dmitri Ermak and Tamara Kotova, Moscow

Unidentified (Yuichiro Yamaguchi?), Tokyo

Yuichiro Yamaguchi and Kyoko Suzuki (?), Tokyo

Sierra Boggess and Norm Lewis, Broadway

Jim Patterson (?) and Maria Kesselman, West End

#phantom of the opera #first lair #the phantom's lair #music of the night #not tagging them all #gillian lynne

[marleneoftheopera]

Onstage at the 30th Anniversary.

Photos from Maria Kesselman’s Facebook.

#i really like these angles tbh #especially the first one #maria kesselman #michael crawford #celinde schoenmaker #gardar thor cortes #charles hart #cameron mackintosh #andrew lloyd webber #30th anniversary #masquerade #poto london #phantom of the opera

[phantomchristinesuk]

It’s Phantom London’s 33rd birthday.

In honour of the Anniversary, here is team Christine from 1986 & 2019!

Pictures from Operafantomet on tumblr, Phantom London Facebook, Bridget Costello Instagram, Maria Kesselman Facebook & Corinne Cowling Instagram.

#poto london #sarah brightman #kelly mathieson #poto west end #claire moore #bridget costello #phantom of the opera #maria kesselman #corinne cowling #bridget mary costello

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

Maria Kesselman original Christine Daaé understudy and original Hannibal Princess in her dressing room in 1986

#phantom of the opera #poto #the phantom of the opera

[glassprism]

Besides Sarah Brightman did other christines danced the entire Hannibal routine? the ones I've seen just show up out of nowhere looking lost and dance the end part. Sarah's dancing was so gorgeous, absolutely queen!

Quite a bit, actually. Christine doing the full Hannibal choreography was the norm for productions up until... maybe around late 1988 or early 1989. (It seems to have been gone by the time the Los Angeles production opened, for example.) This also means that several of the productions that opened before then, kept Christine doing the original choreography; the big ones I can think of are Japan and Toronto + the Canadian tour.

So Christines who were in London or Broadway during that time or were in Toronto, the Canadian tour (maybe - they may have removed it later) or Japan (up until changes they made in 2020) did the original choreography, which means we can probably include the following actresses in this list (I put a little * next to actresses where there is video evidence of them performing it):

Sarah Brightman*

Claire Moore

Maria Kesselman

Rebecca Caine*

Patti Cohenour*

Rebecca Luker*

Dale Kristien* (only on Broadway)

All the Toronto Christines (* for some, such as Melissa Dye)

Presumably all the Christines on the Canadian Tour (* for one, Teresa DeZarn)

All the Japanese Christines up until 2020 (* for multiple ones, including Ryoko Nomura, Kyoko Suzuki, Hisako Hanaoka, Tamami Sai, Sakoto Yoshioka, Takako Nakazawa, and Shiho Ito)

And if you include the non-replicas, the count might increase even more, though technically their choreography is completely different (for example, the restaged tour Christines typically do the whole dance). So ultimately quite a few, if you know where to look!

#GP gets asks #anonymous

[unicornmuley]

Sad opera lady and even sadder death’s head man...

She’s blonde and her hair is stuck in the 1870’s (but inspired by Maria Kesselman). And he’s... nearly bald (but I considered giving him more hair cuz I’m rereading Susan Kay? It’s been about a decade?)

#phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #gaston leroux #erik #christine daae #lerik #portrait #illustration #sketchbook #animator #erik poto #susan kay #kerik #unicornmuley art