There have been numerous adaptations of the novel to other media, among the best known of which are the 1925 silent movie starring Lon Chaney and the 1996 stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd-Webber.įront cover of a 1920 edition of the novel.Īfter an introduction in which Leroux says that the ghostly goings-on at the Paris Opera House thirty years earlier are well known, the novel moves on to the life story of Christine Daae. The novel deals primarily with the Phantom's relationship with Christine Daae, a beautiful and gifted young opera singer with whom he falls in love. He threatens that there will be severe consequences if his conditions are not met. For many years, the Phantom leaves notes to extort money from the Opera House managers and makes them agree to keep box number five free for him at all times. He is believed by most people who work in the Opera House to be a ghost that haunts the theater. He lives beneath the Paris Opera House and moves freely about the building. He is prepared to use extortion, intimidation and even murder in order to get what he wants. Erik is extremely talented but does not appear to know the difference between right and wrong. The title character is a man who calls himself Erik, is hideously deformed and hides his ugliness behind a mask. The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by the French author Gaston Leroux that was first published as a newspaper serial between Septemand January 8, 1910. A wax model of Lon Chaney as the Phantom of the Opera.
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