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The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910) is Gaston Leroux's classic mystery-romance set beneath the Paris Opera House. A disfigured musical genius, Erik, haunts the opera in a hidden labyrinth of underground cellars and a lake, terrorizing the managers with demands, extorting money, and conducting a secret feud with the great diva Carlotta. When he abducts the young Swedish soprano Christine Daae — a fatherless prodigy whose voice he has secretly trained as her "Angel of Music" — he sets off a deadly triangle with the young Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, who loves her. Erik demands Christine's hand in marriage and threatens to destroy the entire Opera House unless she yields. Told partly in the first person by the Persian, an old friend who knows Erik's history, the novel blends the detective story, the Gothic romance and the mystery of the famous 1896 chandelier crash. Its tragic, unforgettable conclusion made it the basis of the celebrated 1911 silent film and countless stage adaptations. A landmark of the French detective and fantastic-fiction tradition.
