In the stage adaptation, the plot is centred around the romance between the beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, and the mysterious ghost living in the underground labyrinth of the Paris Opera House. The author recounts a number of strange happenings – a chandelier that comes crashing down from the ceiling during a performance, a stage hand found strung up, and the directors of the Opera being asked for 20,000 francs a month from a certain ‘Phantom of the Opera’ the very same who demands that Box 5 be reserved for him. Like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1817) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera (1910) quickly took root in the collective imagination of its audience as a result of its mythological basis.
Since his body was never found, it is believed that it was mixed up with those of the communards. He lived near the underground ‘lake’ beneath the Opera House, dedicating the end of his life to his art and the completion of his work, a hymn to love and death. It is said that following this dramatic fire, the inconsolable pianist, in his disfigured state, sought shelter in the catacombs beneath the Palais Garnier Opera House, where he remained until his death.
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