During the journey, Raoul recalls their childhood. She tells him Raoul she will be at Perros-Guirec, the village in Normandy where they first met as children, and Raoul hurries to meet her there. Raoul writes Christine many letters, and Christine finally replies, saying that she does remember him after all. Overcome by jealousy, Raoul waits for Christine to leave so that he can confront this rival, but when the room opens, Raoul is shocked to discover that Christine’s dressing-room is empty. The man declares his love for her, and Christine, in turn, tells him that she has given him her soul. However, Christine pretends not to recognize him, and later, Raoul hears her talk to a man in her dressing-room. In the audience, Viscount Raoul de Chagny, Christine’s childhood friend, who is deeply in love with her, goes to talk with her backstage. Christine sings so beautifully that the public remains astonished, wondering why her talent has been hidden for so long. On the same evening, Christine Daaé, a little-known soprano, replaces her colleague Carlotta, who is ill. The narrator concludes that these can hardly be considered “natural” circumstances, and that there must be another explanation besides suicide. Although his death is attributed to “suicide under natural circumstances,” when people arrive to retrieve his corpse they can find no sign of the rope. Moments later, chief stage machinist Joseph Buquet is found dead, hanging beneath the stage. In the 1880s, on Debienne and Poligny’s last night as Opera directors, chaos erupts when ballerinas claim to have see the Opera ghost. From the beginning, the narrator affirms that the Phantom does exist, but is in fact a human being, not a ghost. The Opera Ghost or Phantom has been said to appear as a black figure with a skull face covered in yellow, rotten skin with burning eyes. In the 1880s, strange events have been unfolding at the Paris Opera House, convincing people that the Opera must be haunted. Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, follows a narrator’s investigation into the actions and identity of the mysterious Phantom of the Opera.
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