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Two concepts are of importance here, both indicated in the title of the book.

The Opera - thoroughly pictured as a spacious building with 20 floors above and 5 more beneath, consisting of a vast number of people starting from singers and musicians, through managers and technicians, to a ratcatcher. The Opera - understood as music and passion, and above all, as the passion for music.

The Phantom - who is he? The Angel of music, a great singer and composer, who teaches Christine how to make audience weep? The Ghost haunting along the Opera House, presenting extravagant financial needs to the managers and throwing down a huge chandelier? A monster and a trap-door lover kidnapping the prima donna in mid-performance and constructing the torture chamber to prevent anybody from entering his house on the lake?
Or just Erik? The mysterious figure, condemned to live beneath the Opera House, disparaged by all others because of his hideous looks and tortured by the pangs of unreciprocated love? The ugliest man with the most beautiful heart.

I've read this book for the third time and I still do not have the slightest idea why Christine chose the boyish boring Raoul and not the Phantom?

For me it's the most bewitching and mournful love story ever written.


Read in January 2012

Two concepts are of importance here, both indicated in the title of the book.

The Opera - thoroughly pictured as a spacious building with 20 floors above and 5 more beneath, consisting of a vast number of people starting from singers and musicians, through managers and technicians, to a ratcatcher. The Opera - understood as music and passion, and above all, as the passion...