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- Christine Daaé
Sick of living like a mountebank, in a house full of tricks!...
- Carlotta
The leading soprano at the Paris Opera House has a...
- Gabriel
Unlike his colleagues Mercier and Rémy, the chorus-master is...
- Papin
All Characters Christine Daaé Erik / The Phantom of the...
- Mercier
The administrator Mercier is often shocked by the events...
- Christine's Father
Often referred to in the novel simply as “Daaé,” Christine...
- Joseph Buquet
The chief machinist Joseph Buquet is the Phantom ’s first...
- M. Poligny
One of the former directors of the Paris Opera House with...
- Christine Daaé
Erik (also known as the Phantom of the Opera, commonly referred to as the Phantom) is the titular protagonist of Gaston Leroux's novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, best known to English speakers as The Phantom of the Opera.
Plot summary. In the 1880s, in Paris, the Palais Garnier Opera House is believed to be haunted by an entity known as the 'Phantom of the Opera', or simply the 'Opera Ghost', after stagehand Joseph Buquet is found hanged, the noose around his neck missing.
The Persian is a key witness to the events at the opera house, interviewed by the narrator about the fates of Raoul de Chegny and Christine Daaé. His real name is never revealed due to his...
Madame Giry is a fictional character from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. She is a fairly intermediate character in the novel, although her role is much increased in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Madame Giry is also a character in the 2010 musical Love Never Dies, a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera.
This is a list of characters who appear in various adaptions of The Phantom of the Opera. If there is a version that isn't listed here, feel free to add a list of characters from it as well. If any characters are missing, please add them.
Character Background and Biograph [] Lon Chaney as Erik in the 1925 film adaptation of the film. In the original novel, few details are given regarding Erik's past, although there is no shortage of hints and implications throughout the book.
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