IT is unlikely there was a dry eye in the house at the Bristol Hippodrome where Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera is showing.

The Phantom of the Opera, now in its 26th year, is an exhilarating show, which takes its audience on an emotional roller coaster.

The show centres on the love triangle of two star-crossed lovers, Christine and Raoul, and the Phantom’s unhealthy unrequited love, all set in a Parisian Opera House.

The show opens with a prologue set in 1911 at an auction at the Opera House.

Within minutes the haunting and spine chilling chords of The Phantom of the Opera begin, taking the audience back to the late 19th century when the Opera House was thriving but the cast is being stalked by the Phantom.

This new production of The Phantom, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, has had a refurbishment with new clever scenery, which allows a faster pace and takes the audience deeper into the life backstage at the Opera House and the Phantom’s underground lair.

As is to be expected with The Phantom there is the iconic chandelier, which hangs over the audience, but what really makes the show is an incredible cast and great music.

The Phantom has a great mix of humour, drama, glitz and passion with songs such as Notes, The Music of the Night, Masquerade and All I Ask of You.

John Owen-Jones gives a spell-bounding performance as The Phantom, seducing not just Christine but the audience too.

Katie Hall as Christine and Simon Bailey as Raoul are convincing as lovers, and both deliver emotionally charged performances.

A special mention should also be given to Angela M Caesar who plays the jilted lead Carlotta Giudicelli for her phenomenal vocal performances throughout the show.

The Phantom of the Opera is at the Bristol Hippodrome until June 30.