Classic Stories: The Phantom of the Opera

经典故事:歌剧魅影

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2025-05-16

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  • Hello, my name's Tim. You might know today's story as a best-selling stage musical,

  • but it was originally a novel about love, obsession and the possibility of redemption.

  • Our tale begins in 1880 at the famous Palais Garnier Opera House in Paris.

  • Its directors, Debien and Polini, are staging a gala to mark their retirement.

  • But trouble is afoot.

  • Some ballerinas have seen the so-called phantom,

  • a mysterious entity which haunts the theatre with its skull-like face and burning eyes.

  • More horrifying still, a stagehand is found dead,

  • hanged by the neck, but without any sign of the rope.

  • Carlotta, Palais Garnier's talented but vain lead soprano, is ill.

  • Her replacement, Christine Daae, takes to the stage and triumphs.

  • Amongst the cheering audience is Viscount Raoul de Chagny,

  • who recognises Christine as a childhood companion and visits her backstage.

  • Waiting outside her dressing room, Raoul overhears a man declaring his love for her.

  • When she leaves, he bursts in to confront the man, but the room is empty.

  • At this stage of the game,

  • the action shifts to a seaside resort where Raoul and Christine spent their childhood.

  • Raoul reminisces about Christine's late father,

  • a violin player who used to tell them tales of the Angel of Music,

  • a spirit that turns musicians into prodigies.