Musicology Annotation << Back The role of musical-rhetorical figure circulatio in creation the Pundjab lasso image in the musical by A.L. Webber «The Phantom of the Opera» Natalia Fedorovskaya In article, the features of creation in the musical by A.L. Webber «The Phantom of the Opera» the Pundjab lasso image – the death-dealing attribute of the protagonist are considered. It has been found that the main development of Phantom’s lasso image receives not through remarks of characters, action on a scene and the note-explanatory in the libretto, but through music and using of an is musical-rhetorical figure circulatio. The melodic line of this figure visually represents a circle, which embodies the Pundjab lasso; its intense intonations reflect fear before the Phantom’s possibilities. This musical structure shows as the Phantom throws the imaginary lasso over all the people in the Opera House, also it a destiny circle in which all characters of the musical are involved. Connection of the semantics of musical-rhetorical figure circulatio and the Phantom’s attribute promotes that Pundjab lasso is becomes one of the major symbols of «The Phantom of the Opera». Keywords: A.L. Webber, The Phantom of the Opera, musical, Pundjab lasso, magical lasso, circulatio, musical rhetoric, musical-rhetoric figures. Contacts: E-mail: fedorovska@mail.ru Pp. 20-24.