Christine, the daughter of a talented violinist, is born in Sweden but moves to rural France when she is six. The novel then moves on to tell the life story of Christine Daae. The Phantom of the Opera opens with an introduction that says that the ghostly goings at the Paris Opera House in the 1880s are well known but that the Phantom responsible for them was not a ghost but a flesh and blood person.
Tomasz Sleciuk appears as the Phantom of the Opera in Warsaw, Poland on October 30, 2008. The novel deals primarily with Erik's relationship with Christine Daae, a beautiful and talented young opera singer with whom the Phantom falls in love. Erik does not appear to know the difference between right and wrong and is prepared to use extortion, intimidation and murder to get what he wants. Erik lives beneath the Paris Opera House and is able to move freely around the building because he is believed by most people who work in the theater to be a ghost that haunts it. The Phantom of the title is an extremely talented but hideously ugly man who hides his ugliness beneath a mask and calls himself Erik. The best known adaptations are the 1925 silent movie which stars Lon Chaney as the Phantom and the 1986 Andrew Lloyd-Webber stage musical.
The Phantom of the Opera was out of print for much of the 20th century but was adapted numerous times during that period. The first English translation of the novel was published in 1911. It was first published in book form in 1910, having originally been published as a serial in the newspaper Le Gaulois between Septemand January 8, 1910. The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by the French author Gaston Leroux. Front cover of a 1920 French edition of the novel.
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