

Terrified by The Phantom’s actions, Christine and Raoul flee to the roof and declare their love for each other, not realising The Phantom is watching them. He nevertheless remains hopeful she can learn to love him and returns her back to the opera house.Īfter blackmail notes from The Phantom fail to be heeded by the owners of the opera house, he strikes his revenge by making the lead singer Carlotta lose her voice and murdering a rope man, John Buquet. Wanting to see who The Phantom really is, she removes his mask, sending him into a fit of anger. Overcome, she passes out, and awakens lying on The Phantom’s bed. Having recognised Christine as his childhood sweetheart, a young Raoul runs backstage to meet her and the two arrange to have dinner that evening.Īfter the show is finished, Meg (Jennifer Ellison) finds Christine praying in the chapel to her dead father, whom she believes has been coaching her all these years, and is her angel of music, unaware that her coach has, in fac,t been The Phantom.īack in her dressing room, The Phantom lures her away to his underground lair where she comes across a waxwork of herself in a wedding dress. After almost dropping a piece of set on the opera’s lead, Carlotta (Minnie Driver), the diva leaves, creating the opportunity for Christine to take her role and fulfil The Phantom’s wish for her. After years of secretly coaching Christine Daaé (Emmy Rossum), he plots to make her the star of the opera. Within the opera house lives a disfigured musical genius known only as The Phantom (Gerard Butler).
