In the movie, her character is made to look like an off-key opera singer. She is actually a talented beautiful singer.

I cant believe this is the same woman who voiced Jane in Tarzan.

Say what you want about this movie, Minnie Driver is HILARIOUS as Carlotta! She's just such a diva!

If you pause the video at 32 seconds, you will see that the portrait is of Carlotta holding Andrew Lloyd Webber's head on a platter

I love Carlotta's vibrato!! But Christine's voice is so clear...

"would u rather have your precious little ingenue!" lol i love that line

I like how Carlotta's voice is way more rough around the edges, compared to Christine's refined voice. It stresses their personalities even more! :D

Okay so i looked up the lyrics and in some of the things Firmin and Andre said... they think Christine wasn't with the phantom but sleeping with Raoul....

My knowledge of this tradition is limited but I can provide you with a basic answer. The lead is on stage for excessive amounts of time and leads to sweating, which as pretty much anyone can tell you stinks. So to cut back on the stench wine is poured into the shoes to act as a perfume. They drank the wine so A. As not to waste it and B. it was a sort of good luck ritual of sorts. There may be a bit more to the history but I am not aware of it. Hope this helps more than than ClassV's did.

call me crazy but after watching this a few times I now find this film more funny than serious but I grew up loving musicals and still do. it's just they have such classic moments you can't help but laugh at. I guess their getting better at capturing our imagination with the old favorites in new ways of course.

I'd LOVE to play Carlotta! The actress is probably the sweetest woman you could meet, but if she's anything like me, she loves playing mean girl parts! They're so fun!

They try so hard to keep her to spite the phantom. They don't want someone else bossing them around and running their opera house so they're doing the opposite of everything he tells them to do.

if you listen to "Notes" right before this, they don't even believe in the phantom (or at least they don't want to believe in him)

Minnie Driver DOES have a beautiful voice, though there was another person singing to make it sound 'bad.' Minner Driver sings "Learn to be Lonely" at the end of the film.

Now I'm curious about how it would've been if Christine played the Countess.

........ wow they really knew how to kiss up back then

I'm still shocked that Minnie Driver didn't actually sing in the movie.

I frakkin love the phantom of the opera

Love this scene!

"Learn to be Lonely" proves that her vocal range is way too low compared to her double.

that gets me everytime too. I laugh every time I watch that part I'm like *DEEP BREATH* BREATH BREATHE CLEAR!!!!! SING!!!! whew its over....lol.

freewolf may be correct but I also read that it was a sign of respect and tribute to whomever the shoes belonged to, in this case Carlotta.

ahahahahah i like the part where they all took a deep breathe :D:D

SO IT IS TO BE WAR BETWEEN US

Why did he drink wine out of her shoe?

It's actually a theatre luck thing. I don't remember the origin, but there are a lot of odd traditions running around in theatre :P

The expression on Firmin's face @ 1:44! lol

LOL Minnie's face at 1:41 :)))))

The first time I saw this, I didn't like her, but the second time I liked Carlotta a lot better than Christine...

É a canção mais bonita do filme!

Its cool

so true!

Has the pitch of this been raised? Ilove it, I just noticed ;)

Lol does he really have to drink from her shoe?

IKR??!!

Who is singing for Minnie Driver. I can't believe that she has a beautiful voice like this.

It's a way to appease her, I think: to get her to perform again.

chida rola me gusta mucho,de hecho todas las de la pelicula .

a handwarmer

why does firmin drink from her shoe?

That's just the French for you. They also eat snails.

Its apart of the scene to make it funny

don't judge me that I haven't noticed it before.. but i finally got the pun!!

what is given to Carlotta at 0:57? o.O

@somegalfromcan like in the 25th anniversary concert :P

Oh, I Can't imagine. >.< She is too childish for this. Minnie plays it amazingly....

At the same time I wanna scream after reading that comment, I want to hug you, too. :/ I love Carlotta because it looks like fun to get to play her, but I also hate her because of the way she is. lol

Uh.. Okay. I can't share the same sentiments :P

There are 14 insane people that watched this video.

yeah but this version is cool too....

Simon cowell!!

no tengo palablas

I always pictured Carlotta as being much chubbier than Minnie Driver.

too much pink!!! xD