<P> Carlotta is portrayed by Virginia Pearson in the original 1925 silent film with Lon Chaney . In 1929 new sound scenes were filmed and Mary Fabian was recast as Carlotta, due to the fact that she could sing . Virginia Pearson still appeared in new scenes, now playing Carlotta's mother . These changes are also the same in the 1929 silent, foreign cut of the film (which is most commonly viewed). </P> <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>

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