His biggest agenda seems to be to advance the career of a young singer named Christine Daae, who believes he's the Angel of Music. All of his aggressive notes are signed O.G. Why would a ghost need money? You may well ask. He wants a specific theatre box permanently reserved just for himself, and a regular sum of cash left for him in an envelope. When people ignore his demands, he makes sure something terrible happens. It turns out to be a bossy, tyrannical type of ghost who wants to run the whole show. They treat the haunting like a big joke, at least to begin with. The theatre's ex-managers have resigned because they're spooked, but their replacements aren't warned what to expect until the night of the swap-over. And rumours that the ghost looks hideous are circulating. The chief scene shifter, who claims to have seen him, is found hanging dead from the rafters. A ghost is rumoured to haunt the Opera House. Did I like his story though? Hmmm, well, it started off promising but went downhill quickly.īasically, it was written as a supernatural thriller. So it was very interesting to read about the charismatic French author in the foreword. To be honest, if anyone had asked me who wrote Phantom of the Opera, I would have guessed Andrew Lloyd Webber. I'd never come across the original version, or Gaston Leroux, until I picked this up at a second hand shop. It's a famous French story set mostly within the walls of the Paris Opera House. This is my choice for a classic in translation, in the 2017 Back to the Classics Challenge. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully.
Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé.
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