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The Phantom&#8217;s appearances and disappearances are as smooth as Isaiah Bailey&#8217;s fluid tenor, and speakers deployed around the venue only add to his moments of disembodied menace. The opera production pieces such as the &#8220;Hannibal Rehearsal,&#8221; &#8220;Il Muto&#8221; and &#8220;Don Juan Triumphant&#8221; feel like shows within a show, and this presentation of &#8220;Masquerade&#8221; employs mannequins and swirling choreography to start Act II off with a literal bang.<\/p>\n<p>All of that said, the fact remains you can dress &#8220;Phantom&#8221; up most any way you want, but it&#8217;s the music of the night, and those performing it, that make or break any given production. And in this case the show has those bases covered, too.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Lee Gilbert, who will perform in all but five shows of the Opera House run, is magnificent Christine. She delivers her goosebump-inducing soprano in a manner that serves the songs more than her own skills, and she certainly plays nicely with others; signature duet pieces such as &#8220;Angel of Music,&#8221; &#8220;The Phantom of the Opera&#8221; and &#8220;The Point of No Return&#8221; with Bailey&#8217;s Phantom and &#8220;All I Ask of You with Raoul (Daniel Lopez) are nothing less than rapturous. Bailey, meanwhile, plays the Phantom with intriguing restraint, leaning into the psychological damage that&#8217;s part of his backstory for welcome nuance that makes more disturbingly macabre than monstrous.<\/p>\n<p>And his &#8220;Music of the Night&#8221; is so authoritative you want to hear it again, immediately, after Bailey sings it.<\/p>\n<p>Also notable in this production are the comic pieces. 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