<P> In the 1943 film version, she is Mme . Biancarolli who has been drugged by the Phantom and murdered along with her maid when she tries to force him to take off his prop mask . </P> <P> In Andrew Lloyd Webber's production, Carlotta (last name Giudicelli) is from Italy and is one of the major singing parts . The opera company's prima donna, she despises Christine Daaé and sees the younger woman as a threat to her job and Phantom _́ s courtesan, when Christine achieves prominence due to the Phantom's dirty tricks . Carlotta and tenor Ubaldo Piangi are lovers; she often turns to him for consolation when things go wrong, and she breaks down crying when his murdered body is discovered onstage . The film reveals that she likes poodles . </P> <P> In the Lloyd Webber - Joel Schumacher 2004 film version, she was played by Minnie Driver . Due to Driver's lack of experience in opera, her singing voice was dubbed by opera singer Margaret Preece, although she lent her actual voice to the song "Learn to Be Lonely" during the end credits . </P> <P> In Nicholas Meyer's novel The Canary Trainer, the characters of Carlotta and La Sorelli are combined into one, despite being mentioned as separate characters in the original novel . In Kim Newman's short story "Angels of Music" from the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology series, Carlotta is implied to be the ancestor of Bianca Castafiore from The Adventures of Tintin comic series . </P>

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