The Republic of Austria videos of the Phantom of the Opera
Vienna, Theater an der Wien and Raimund Theater (21.12.1988 - 30.06.1993)
December 1988; Vienna, Austria* Alexander Goebel (Phantom), Luzia Nistler (Christine), Alfred Pfeifer (Raoul), Priti Coles (Carlotta), Jack Poppell (André), Wolfgang Pampel (Firmin), Sergio Lombana (Piangi), Diana Bennett (Mme Giry), Alexandra Young-Schmidt (Meg) Two-camera proshot. Generation loss, color bleeding. Includes 40 minutes of interview and concert footage with Vienna and original Hamburg productions. I believe that originally this video came with “Making Of” but since there is a big difference in quality of both videos, I’m sure they were separated once and both videos I have came from different tapes so I trade them separately. Highlights, 91 min. VOB|1 DVD|1.58 GB
25 August 1991; Vienna, Austria* Ernst-Dieter Suttheimer (alt. Phantom), Colleen Besett (Christine), Timothy Breese (alt. Raoul), Linda Healy (alt. Carlotta), Horst Reeh (André u/s), Dietrich Hergt (Firmin), Sergio Lombana (Piangi), Claudia Rose Golde (Mme Giry u/s), Eva-Maria Weber (Meg u/s) Last for Suttheimer as undersrtudy, Breese and Golde. So many alternatives and understudies in one performance. Soundboard and filmed on a tripod, but I still think this is a bootleg, a really good one. VOB|1 DVD|3.18 GB
13 December 1991; Vienna, Austria* Alexander Goebel (Phantom), Colleen Besett (Christine), Andrew Hambly-Smith (Raoul), Robin Lee (Carlotta), Jack Poppell (André), Dietrich Hergt (Firmin), Vittorio Giammarrusco (Piangi u/s), Diana Bennett (Mme Giry), Alexandra Young-Schmidt (Meg) Monitor video, black-and-white picture but great audio straight from the soundboard. Broken smalls. VOB|1 DVD|4.11 GB
1992; Vienna, Austria* Nicholas Saverine (Phantom), Luzia Nistler (Christine), Andrew Hambly-Smith (Raoul), Robin Lee (Carlotta), Jack Poppell (André), Peter Vorwerg (Firmin), Sergio Lombana (Piangi), Diana Bennett (Mme Giry), Alexandra Young-Schmidt (Meg) 1000th Vienna performance. Monitor video, soundboard. Black-and-white video. Picture is more blurry than in the video above. Also tape is glitching sometimes and sound hisses a bit. VOB|1 DVD|3.94 GB
1992; Vienna, Austria* Nicholas Saverine (Phantom), Colleen Besett (alt. Christine), Thorsten Tinney (alt. Raoul), Robin Lee (Carlotta), Jack Poppell (André), Dietrich Hergt (Firmin), Sergio Lombana (Piangi), Diana Bennett (Mme Giry), Alexandra Young-Schmidt (Meg) Filmed on a tripod so very steady picture. Very good quality but it tends to have yellow or brown tints. VOB|1 DVD|3.85 GB
30 June 1993 (Derniere); Vienna, Austria* Alexander Goebel (Phantom), Luzia Nistler (Christine), Thorsten Tinney (alt. Raoul), Valda Aviks (Carlotta), Jack Poppell (André), Sergio Lombana (Piangi), Felicitas Morawitz (Mme Giry), Alexandra Young-Schmidt (Meg) Some funny adlibs from the cast. Goebel came back specially for last performance. Shot on tripod. Version 1: Common version, some generation loss but great quality overall. VOB|1 DVD|3.20 GB Version 2: looks similar to the common one but maybe a bit softer, has menu chapters. 3rd screencap. VOB|2 DVD|4.62 GB
30 November 2012; Vienna, Austria Christian Alexander Mueller (Phantom), Lisa Antoni (Christine), Oliver Arno (Raoul), Siphiwe McKenzie (Carlotta), Ramin Dustar (André), Reinhard Brussmann (Firmin), Emilio Ruggerio (Piangi), Michaela Christi (Mme Giry), Anna Carina Buchegger (Meg) Concert version. Includes a lot of TV spots for the concert. Slight blurriness of the picture and quite a few bars on the way. Still very interesting to see POTO in concert. VOB|1 DVD|3.99 GB