After the Gala, Meg asks Christine about her mysterious teacher, but Christine can only tell Meg that he is the Angel of Music whom her late father had always promised would one day visit her. The managers grant her an audition.Īudition and performance merge and, from the managers’ box, the young Raoul, patron of the Opera House, voices his enthusiasm for the new star. Christine has been taking singing lessons, but is unable (or unwilling) to say from whom. Meg, Madame Giry’s daughter, suggests to André and Firmin that her friend and fellow dancer Christine Daaé could take Carlotta’s place. Madame Giry, the ballet mistress, hands the managers a note from ‘the opera ghost’ demanding a salary and a free box at the opera. The new managers learn that there have been too many accidents. Carlotta storms out, leaving the new production without a star. There are murmurs among the company that it must have been the work of ‘the ghost’. André asks the prima donna, Carlotta, to sing, but a backdrop falls suddenly from the flies, almost killing her. He introduces the new managers, André and Firmin. Lefèvre, manager of the Opera House, arrives and explains to the company that he is retiring. The remnants of a chandelier are revealed and we are swept back to the time of Raoul’s youth, when the chandelier hung in splendour from the dome of the Opera House.Ī new opera, Hannibal, is in rehearsal. At an auction of opera memorabilia at the Paris Opera House, an old man, Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, bids for a strange musical box which seems to hold for him some special memory.

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