The Phantom of the Opera

More than a half and a month for world release of the awaited cinematographic version from Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, now it's available the information about the motion picture soundtrack edition, and we can hear the firsts extracts of the music at the official movie website, to hear the difference between the musical and cinema, at: phantomthemovie.warnerbros.com.

Like in the Original Cast Recording of the musical, there will be two editions from the original soundtrack of this film. One with 1CD with highlights of the film, and another with 2CDs with all the music in the film, songs and score. Both of them contains the new songs composed by Lloyd Webber for the film, entitled: "Learn to be Lonely" that will be sing by Carlotta, performed by Minnie Driver. The 2CDs editions contains dialogue clips from the movie too.

This is the tracklist for the 1CD edition (regular edition):
1. Overture, 2. Think of Me, 3. Angel of Music, 4. The Mirror (Angel of Music), 5. The Phantom of the Opera, 6. The Music of the Night, 7. Prima Donna, 8. All I Ask of You, 9. All I Ask of You (Reprise), 10. Masquerade, 11. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, 12. The Point of No Return, 13. Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer, 14. Learn to be Lonely.

This the tracklist for the 2CDs edition (special edition):
Disc 1
1. Prologue, 2. Overture/Hannibal, 3.Think of Me, 4. Angel of Music, 5. Little Lotte/The Mirror (Angel of Music), 6. The Phantom of the Opera, 7. The Music of the Night, 8. Magical Lasso, 9. I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It, 10. Notes/Prima Donna, 11. Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh, 12. Why Have You Brought Me Here/Raoul I've Been There, 13. All I Ask of You, 14. All I Ask of You (Reprise)
Disc 2
1. Masquerade/Why So Silent, 2. Madame Giry's Tale/The Fairground, 3. Journey to the Cemetery, 4. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, 5. Wandering Child, 6. The Swordfight, 7. We Have All Been Blind, 8. Don Juan, 9. The Point Of No Return/Chandelier Crash, 10. Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer, 11. Learn to be Lonely

After a first contact with new versions, we can see the voices have less presence than the musical cast. It seems like the filmmakers look for a true filming musical with more realistic performances, not like in the West End musical that look for to be an opera but with the spirit of Broadway. The original soundtrack two editions will release worldwide 23th of november, and the film a month later, 22th of December. We'll wait with impatience.