![]() Christine explains that the Angel of Music comes to her and tutors her. Meg asks Christine how she learned to sing so well. After the show, Christine goes to the chapel to light a candle for her father, who died when she was six years old. That night she sings beautifully, and the Opera Ghost hears her through the vents.ĭuring Christine's performance, Raoul recognizes her from his childhood. Firmin and André scramble to replace Carlotta, and Christine is chosen after singing for them. He apparently watches every show and was paid twenty thousand francs a month by previous the owner of the house. Madame Giry opens it and reads the letter signed from the "Opera Ghost", a specter-like entity who lives somewhere within the opera house and is believed to be a ghost. Meanwhile, a dark figure leaves the spot where the backdrop used to be and an envelope falls to the floor. While performing an aria, a backdrop falls from the ceiling and almost crushes Carlotta Giudicelli, the soloist and lead soprano, who immediately resigns from the house. ![]() He does not see her, however, and she says nothing to get his attention, assuming he would not recognize her. The young viscount, Raoul, is introduced to the cast, and Christine recognizes him as her childhood love. While the cast are rehearsing Hannibal, Madame Giry, who is the ballet mistress and the mother of Meg Giry, introduces them to Christine Daaé, a ballet dancer and young but talented singer. The opera house is purchased by two new owners, Richard Firmin and Gilles André, who are of the "scrap metal" industry and have no experience in theater. The black and white turns into color, and the audience is transported back in time to 1870, when the opera house was still in its prime. As the auctioneers display the restored chandelier, it illuminates and slowly rises to its old place in the rafters as the opening crescendo of music wipes away the years of decay from the opera house. Their attention is called on by the next piece for auction, lot 666: a chandelier in pieces which has been restored and newly wired with electricity. During the auction, he spots Madame Giry, whom he met as a young man. ![]() The elderly Viscount of Chagny purchases a coveted music box in a shape of a monkey wearing Persian robes and playing cymbals. In 1919, the dilapidated Paris Opera House holds an auction. ![]() Margaret Preece - Carlotta (singing voice)/Confidante.Patrick Wilson - Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny.
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