The Phantom of the Opera
Two new managers take over the Paris Opera and inherit a ghost who demands a salary, a private box, and the casting of a young Swedish soprano, and who disposes of anyone who refuses him. Beneath the stage lie five cellars, an underground lake, and a man in a mask who has been teaching the singer to sing. Leroux was a crime reporter, and he built the whole thing on the real architecture of the Palais Garnier and the counterweight accident that killed a spectator there in 1896.
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- alludes to ↑ Faust, Part One
- influenced by ↑ The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- ↓ The Phantom of the Opera
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