But that wasn’t the only potential roadblock to getting the part of the young soprano at the Paris Opera who becomes caught up in the teaching and music of the mysterious phantom.
“I hadn’t been singing in five years,'' Rossum said. “And the kind of complexity within the character that I envisioned is not something that they normally entrust to young girls.''
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