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Christine revives, and sends Raoul out of her room.

Raoul is smitten with the young singer and, after Christine faints after her performance in Faust, he ventures backstage to her aid, recognizing her as the young girl he played with as a child and whose scarf he had once run out into the sea to fetch. While Christine performs, the young Vicomte Raoul de Chagny and his older brother Count Philippe watch. The story then follows the Opera’s newest singer, Christine Daaé, a pretty Swedish girl, who has a night of triumph in Romeo and Juliet when the Palais’ diva La Carlotta is taken mysteriously ill. We find out later in the story how all of magic happens, and how the Opera Ghost manages to befuddle everyone. His body and the rope vanish before anyone has a chance to cut him down. He is later found dead, hanged, between the set-pieces under the stage, but He describes him as having “death’s head” and wearing dress-clothes, as do the girls The chief scene-shifter, Joseph Buquet, tells them that he has seen the ghost. The other workers scoff at the girl’s story and refuse to believe it. The calm is disrupted by the announcement of one of the members of the corps-de-ballet that she has seen the opera ghost! Meg Giry and the other dancers are scared, as they state that they have seen deaths head on the shoulders of a well dressed man. This pushes the reader to question how the events described in the prolgue occur.Īfter the prologue, you’re taken back to 1881, at the gala performance honoring the The prolgue helps tell the story before it happens. Own research he has discovered and believes in the existence of the Phantom who once haunted the Palais Garnier in Paris. The story starts with a prologue from the author concluding that because of his Christines decision will change the Phantom forever.

There he forces her to marry him or he will kill Raoul. The Phantom kidnaps Christine, and lures her down to the cellars of the opera house. With the Phantom's help, Christine rises to become the Opera's star performer, but when the Phantom demands her heart in return,eternally, poor Christine is torn between gratitude and pity for her strange teacher, and love for her childhood sweetheart, Raoul. Christine Daee is a pretty, talented, young singer at the Opera Garnier in France. They are watched by the Phantom of the Opera- a mysterious masked murderer and who harrasses the Opera's management and players