For Christine, it blurred the lines between fear and seduction. It then started a complicated relationship with OG. It was also this presence that Christine’s unseen guardian, The Phantom of the Opera a.k.a. The Vicomte turned out to be Christine’s childhood sweetheart, Raoul, one who was ecstatic that about Christine headlining the operas that he had been funding all along. The opera ended up becoming a box office success under the new owners, Firmin and Andre, and the new patron, Vicomte de Chagny.

Meg, daughter of the opera house keeper, Madame Giry, then presented Christine as the viable replacement as she has been in the production long enough to learn Carlotta’s lines by heart. After its prima donna, Carlotta, stormed out of the stage, the new owners found it too soon to cancel the event. I am referring to Gaston Leroux and his most famous contribution to French literature is the novel “The Phantom of the Opera”.Ĭhristine Daae was one of the backup dancers in the upcoming production of an opera in the Paris Opera House. Who would have thought a moderately successful novel about an obscure and mysterious opera house would inspire one of the longest running musicals in Broadway today? Had the novelist been alive at the time that the musical debuted, he’d be more than happy to witness his literary work surpass his own fame in French journalism.

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