However, Christine sympathizes with Erik and decides to sing for him one last time as a means of saying goodbye. Raoul tells Christine he will act on his promise the next day, to which she agrees. On the roof of the Opera House, Christine tells Raoul about her abduction and makes Raoul promise to take her away to a place where Erik can never find her, even if she resists. Fearing that she will leave him, he decides to hold her permanently, but when Christine requests release after two weeks, he agrees on the condition that she wear his ring and be faithful to him. Still, she causes him to change his plans when she unmasks him and, to the horror of both, beholds his noseless, sunken-eyed face, which resembles a skull dried up by the centuries.
The Phantom, having abducted Christine from her dressing room, reveals himself as a deformed man called Erik.Įrik intends to hold her prisoner in his lair with him for a few days. The managers assume his demands are a prank and ignore them, resulting in disastrous consequences, as Carlotta ends up croaking like a toad, and the chandelier suddenly drops into the audience, killing a spectator. Raoul attempts to confront it but is attacked and knocked out in the process.īack at the Palais Garnier, the new managers receive a letter from the Phantom demanding that they allow Christine to perform the lead role of Marguerite in Faust, and that Box 5 be left empty for his use, lest they perform in a house with a curse on it. Christine visits her father's grave one night, where a mysterious figure appears and plays the violin for her. When Raoul suggests that she might be the victim of a prank, she storms off. Christine tells him she has been tutored by the Angel of Music, whom her father used to tell them about. He investigates the room once Christine leaves, only to find it empty.Īt Perros-Guirec, Christine meets with Raoul, who confronts her about the voice he heard in her room. He attempts to visit her backstage, where he hears a man complimenting her from inside her dressing room. The Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, who was present at the performance, recognizes her as his childhood playmate and recalls his love for her. A stagehand named Joseph Buquet is found hanged, the noose around his neck missing.Īt a gala performance for the retirement of the opera house's two managers, a young, little-known Swedish soprano, Christine Daaé, is called upon to sing in place of the Opera's leading soprano, Carlotta, who is ill, and Christine’s performance is an astonishing success. In the 1880s, in Paris, the Palais Garnier Opera House is believed to be haunted by an entity known as the Phantom of the Opera, or simply the Opera Ghost. The serialized version contains an entire chapter ( "L'enveloppe magique") that does not appear in the novel version-though much of its content was added in other chapters-and was not reprinted in English until 2014. The underground "lake" that he wrote about, in reality an enormous cistern, does exist beneath the opera house, and it is still used for training firefighters to swim in the dark. Using this accident paired with rumors of a ghost in that same opera house, Leroux wrote Le Fantôme de l'Opéra and published it in 1910, which was later published in English as The Phantom of the Opera. Leroux had heard the rumours about the time the opera house was finished, and these rumours became closely linked with the novel: Act One of the opera Helle had just finished when a fire in the roof of the opera house melted through a wire holding a counterweight for the chandelier, causing a crash that injured several and killed one. The setting of The Phantom of the Opera is the actual Paris opera house, the Palais Garnier.
The novel was first published in newspapers before finally being published as a book. Because of his fascination with both Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he wrote a detective mystery entitled The Mystery of the Yellow Room in 1907, and four years later he published Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. With his job, he was able to travel frequently, but he returned to Paris where he became a writer. At the paper, he wrote about and critiqued dramas, as well as being a courtroom reporter. Leroux initially was going to be a lawyer, but after spending his inheritance gambling he became a reporter for L'Écho de Paris.
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