After some time, Christine and Raoul announce their engagement, causing the anger of the Phantom. In the next episode, the Phantom messes up the performance of the opera’s leader Carlotta, making her lose her voice, thus, making Christine the only leading soprano. Later, ballet instructor Giry remembers that, years ago, she saved the Phantom, a young boy with a deformed face considered by everybody the “devil’s child,” and him in the underground of the theatre’s building. The Phantom confesses his love to the young lady, but she removes the mask from his face, uncovering his damaged ugly face, and he reacts fiercely. Christine realized that he is that ghost-like “Phantom of the opera,” which continuously scares the theatre’s members. Immediately after their meeting, her mysterious teacher appears before her, leading her to his underground lair. She tries to explain her secret to him however, he dismisses her revelation. After that, she meets a new patron of the theater who appears to be her childhood friend Raoul. In the next scene, Christine reveals to Meg, Giry’s daughter, the secret about her unknown and invisible mentor who teaches her singing, referring to him as an “angel of music.” She feels a mysterious power while singing, “as if her vocal cords are no longer her own” (Rae 2018, p. Unexpectedly for everybody, Christine demonstrates outstanding singing skills and wins success at the opera’s premiere. However, Carlotta suddenly refuses to perform, and Giry, the ballet teacher, proposes young dancer Christine as the main opera character. In the beginning, the theatre prepares for the performance of the opera Hannibal, with leading soprano Carlotta. The film represents a fiction story that has taken place in 1870 in Paris opera theatre.
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