Singers, dancers, and stagehands have all seen him. Retold for students of English, this English Language Teaching (ELT/ESL) eBook is a beginner-level Macmillan Reader. One of the most well-known and well-loved gothic horror stories, Leroux's suspenseful tale of unrequited love, passion and tragedy is both dark and moving in its portrayal of Erik, the anti-hero in his yearning for Christine. The classic Gothic novel that inspired the blockbuster musical There is a ghost in the Paris Opera House. He soon develops an obsessive love for his beautiful protégé, even though she has fallen for her childhood friend, resulting in her disappearance during a performance and sparking a tragic and terrifying chain of events. When Christine joins the company, a young woman with a beautiful voice, Erik is instantly smitten and secretly teaches her to become a great singer. Living secretly beneath the Paris Opera House, 'The Phantom of the Opera', Erik has haunted those who work there with his demands and shrouded the opera house in fear with the legend of his disfigured face. Broadways longest-running show, 'The Phantom of the Opera,' had its final curtain call on Sunday.

'Look! You want to see! See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice!’ Rumored to be haunted, the Palais Garnier opera house in nineteenth-century Paris is the setting for this story of a dangerous love triangle involving a. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The Phantom of the Opera' is a story inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century.

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