Phantom of the Opera is a romantic story
of a woman, Christine Daae, and her love for singing. The love she has
for singing brings about the known Phantom of the Opera 'ghost.'
Christine had first moved to the opera house with her father who was a
violinist. When he passed away, she was taken care of Madame Giry, a
dancer at the opera house. Christine grows up and hears voices talking
to her but no person. Eventually those voices ask her to sing and it
sings as well. It calls her Little Lotte and she calls the ghost the
Angel of Music. Eventually, the lead opera singer quits the show after
Christine sings for her once because the Phantom requests it. The
Phantom grew up in a freak show as his face was deformed and was
finally found and released by Madame Giry. All the Phantom had was a
musical monkey box that he played all of the time. The Phantom and
Christine become closer but after the show, Christine finds out that
her friends Raoul is the new Viscount de Chagny and they fall in love
with each other. This is bad for the Phantom because he loves Christine
and her voice and does everything to get her back to being his. The
Phantom sings to Christine and gets her to follow him down to his
dungeon where he has a figure of her dressed in a wedding dress. She
passes out after seeing that and when she awakens she realizes what he
wants; her. However, she is going to marry Raoul and continues to sing
opera for the Opera Populaire. Eventually, the Phantom gets tired of
playing games with the two of them and steals Christine. Raoul runs
down to the dungeons to save her and gets caught in the Phantom's trap.
As the Phantom is close to murdering Raoul, Christine gives the Phantom
a kiss and expresses how much she loves him. The Phantom then realizes
how much he loves her but that he wants her to be happy. He lets Raoul
go and then him and Christine sail away and get married. The Phantom
was once again left alone with his monkey music box. The end of the
movie expresses how Christine died, but as her husband goes to her
grave to place flowers down, he notices that one single rose is left
there already, which is assumed was from the Phantom of the Opera. The
movie and play is actually based off of a book that was written by
Gaston Leroux and published in 1911 in English. Then There was a movie
made from the book, the play created by Andrew Lloyd Weber, and then
this is the newest movie in which Andrew Lloyd Weber helped to produce,
direct, and cast.
Here are some pictures from the movie:
This is a picture of Christine with the Phantom.
This is when Christine was being taken down to the Phantom's
dungeon.
This is Christine with her true love Raoul.
This is a picture of the monkey music box that the Phantom
had as a small child and like to listen to.
There are many websites where you can buy tickets to go see the play.
Here are some links to a few of them: Phantom of the Opera
There are also many websites that are dedicated to the music because
the music was also very good for the movie and for the play. Here is a
link to to music: Music
from the Phantom of the Opera
