Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from "Phantom.."
Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from "Phantom.."
#0Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from "Phantom.."
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:35pm
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#1re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:47pmDefinetly Emmy Rossum. Sarah Brightman's voice grates on me so bad. I can't stand it! Emmy's voice, while not my favorite, is SO much easier on my ears. I like listening to her.
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#2re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:49pmashley, we are going to get grilled for this, but I agree with you. Sarah's voice is just too strong for me, I guess.
#3re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:50pm
As much as I hate Emmy's compulsion to slide between notes, I find her voice much easier to listen to than Brightman's frog-in-her-throat croaking.
I need to hear someone else sing this stuff. LOL
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:50pm
Sarah Brightman
No contest... I don't like Sarah Brightman's voice much, but I would not call what Emmy Rossum does singing in Phantom. So many others are much more qualified to play the role, and Sarah can actually hit the notes.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#5re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:53pm
timote, I'm ready for the fight 
One day I got into a big fight with another girl who was arguing that Sarah Brightman was the best soprano ever. Got some strange looks when we were yelling at each other. Haha.
#6re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:54pmABSOLUTELY Sarah Brightman. I simply CANNOT STAND Emmy's overly breathy "singing," or, even worse, her "I have a single facial expression that never changes" brand of "acting."
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#7re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:54pm
AMEN TO THAT korenglish!!!!
Sarah for me to...Emmy was very screachy on the high notes, and my best friend who is only 14 can hit them and way higher ones easily...emmy can stick to pop songs,
B2B
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#8re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:58pmCostume, the original question had nothing to do with her acting abilities though.
#9re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:59pmI didn't even know there could be a debate about this matter, but then again everyone has different opinions. Sarah Brightman's voice is impeccable as Christine, ok nobody buys her as a young and naive chorus girl but while Emmy Rossum has the looks, her voice is ridiculously weak.
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#10re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:59pmSarah Brightman. Emmy Rossum was too breathy for my taste. And the ending of the title song was lowered for her because she couldn't sing what was originally written. Definitely Sarah Brightman.
#11re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 10:59pmSarah by far. While I don't love her singing in Phantom (which is hard for me to admit because I"m a huge fan of hers and have most of her albums)she clearly out sings Emmy who made a very weak Christine.
#12re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:03pm
i prefer Sarah...can't believe Emmy played a role originated by someone way more talented than her. There must be a shortage when it comes to sopranos. =)
#13re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:06pmHer sub-par acting skills made the singing even harder to listen to; hence, a contribution.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#14re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:06pmAt this point Emmy, but I think that's b/c I have the movie soundtrack and it's what I'm used to. I've heard Sarah's rendition of a couple songs after being totally used to the CD and now I just really prefer Emmy. Sarah's notes just seem overly vibrato.
#15re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:06pmEmmy by far. While Emmy was not the vocally best Christine out there. I MUCH prefer her to Sarah Brightman. Sarah to me, only sounded strong on "Phantom of the Opera" and parts of "Think of Me". I thought Emmy sounded very good during "Wishing you were Somehow Here Again" and a few others. But hey, my opinion isn't fact.
Alex LaVelle
Understudy Joined: 8/16/05
#16re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:08pmIn my book, Emmy easily trumps Sarah. Also, on a side note, Rebecca Caine falls between the two.
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#17re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:15pmI prefer Sarah for sheer ability and Emmy for the emotion. I wonder what the movie would've been like had Hayley Westenra been in it though.
#18re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:16pm
Emmy is not a good singer, Sarah is not my favorite, though better, wait much better, so she wins by default.
I will admit though, Sarah's voice does get on my nerves. But Emmy is in no way a true Soprano. She sounds like the pre-teens standing outside the theater trying to sing think of me. I have heard Emmy sing other things, I think she is much more suited for a more mezzo range.
But they are hard to compare, because I perfer neither. Sarah sounded too old, Emmy didn't sound like a Soprano nor a budding singer, Why couldn't someone pick someone with more talent.
#19re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:21pmI love Sarah's 'Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" and "Phantom of the Opera" I find her weak on other parts. As for her age, I don't find her to sound that old, and Christine really isn't supposed to be all that young, not as young as Emmy Rossum played her, that was purely for cinematic effect. Look at Sandra Joseph who is playing the role now and looks like she's 35, tho I can't stand her.
#20re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:27pmWhen I first Listened to OBC I thought, WOW Christine sounds like she's thirty, when in fact she's supposed to be 17. Eh, and Emmy was Blah :P
#21re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:37pmI feel like I read somewhere that Christine isn't normally portrayed as being that young. Actually it may have been on the extra footage on the movie DVD. I mean not 30 but maybe like mid 20's...
#22re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:41pmduh.
#23re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:42pmreally? I was always told and always assumed she was 17. She was in the book. And in other movie versions she is 17 or around that age. Didn't I see the dvd extra stuff where the director said they were fortunate to get 'younger' actors as to portray the actors in the right age? I mean Emmy was only 16 when the movie was filmed, a little perverted her kissing 30 something, yet very sexy men. I also thought the main reasons for Sarah getting the part was that she was a soprano and married to ALW.
#24re: Who do you prefer Sarah Brightman or Emmy Rossum singing the songs from
Posted: 9/8/05 at 11:45pmwell yeah taht was the reason she got it, i mean it was written for her, and she probably wouldn't have ever gotten it otherwise, but still i'll always consider it her part and am a huge fan oh her. She's really had such an interesting career, and have loved listening to her experiment with different kinds of music, I know a lot of people dislike her but I think she's great and a true artist.
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