![]() After helping to free them, Christine promises Erik she will carry his ring and come back to visit him on his death day. Raoul and “the Persian” are caught in the lake trying to rescue Christine and almost go mad in a mirrored room. Christine wishes to run away with Raoul but Erik overhears their plans and kidnaps her again. Christine meets with Raoul who wants to take her away permanently. He wants to have her live with him indefinitely but she offers a deal-let her go for two weeks and she will wear his ring. When she removes it -she sees why he has been hiding from people most of his life. She sees he is wearing a mask covering part of his face. ![]() The Phantom abducts Christine and tells her his name is Erik and that he is hopelessly in love with her. The managers ignore this and a chandelier winds up crashing in the audience and killing a spectator. When he enters the room, the man is gone.Ĭhristine claims she is being tutored by the “Angel of Music.” In the meantime, the new managers of the opera house get a letter demanding that Christine is a permanent lead and that box 5 will be left empty-or else he will put a curse on the place. Victome Raoul de Chagny recognizes Christine as his childhood friend/love of his life and visits her dressing room to rekindle their flame when he overhears her talking to another man. ![]() Soprano Christine Daae is the lead as her main competition Carlotta is ill. The 1911 novel takes place at the Palais Garnier (which still exists) where a “phantom” is causing fear among the workers, singers, and dancers who are creating a production of Faust. Inspired by events that happened at the Paris Opera in the mid-19th Century, including a secret underground lake that was used for firefighter training as well as a chandelier crash that was a source of mystery at the time. ![]() The Margos had an excellent suggestion for this episode- The Phantom of the Opera which first appeared in a series featured in Le Gaulois in 1909 & 1910 by author Gaston Leroux.
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