
“There is a butcher on the East Side-I would go in, with my babysitter or my mom, and they’d be like, ‘Oh, it’s the little opera girl!’ They’d go, ‘Do you have a little song for us?’ I would sing them a song, and they would give me a hot dog.”ĭuring an appearance on Conan O’Brien’s talk show Conan, Rossum gave him a preview of her hot dog-scoring childhood performance, which earned her a standing ovation. Up for Leads in Phantom of the Opera Movie Scottish actor Gerard Butler has. Phantom of the Opera Photos 168 Top cast Gerard Butler as The Phantom Emmy Rossum as Christine Patrick Wilson as Raoul Miranda Richardson as Madame Giry Minnie Driver as Carlotta Ciarán Hinds as Firmin Simon Callow as Andre Victor McGuire as Piangi Jennifer Ellison as Meg Giry Murray Melvin as Reyer Kevin McNally as Buquet (as Kevin R. Rossum even sang in a local butcher shop to score free hot dogs, which she admitted to Interview magazine in 2013. Anne Hathaway and Emmy Rossum are among the top candidates mentioned to star. At the age of 7, Rossum joined the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, which she sang in for five years.ĭuring that time, Rossum sang in 20 operas, including La bohème, Turandot, a Carnegie Hall presentation of La damnation de Faust, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

When Rossum was cast as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera, she was no stranger to the stage or camera.Īccording to, the actor was classically trained in Opera throughout her youth and grew up performing the craft on New York theater stages.


Emmy Rossum| Andy Butterton – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images Emmy Rossum is a classically trained opera singer
