Christine and Raoul are engaged, but are keeping it a secret Christine keeps her engagement ring on a chain around her neck. No one has heard from the Phantom in six months. The second act opens at a grand Masquerade Ball, held on the steps of the Paris Opera. Enraged at Christine’s betrayal, the Phantom causes the final disaster of the night – the mighty chandelier comes crashing to the stage floor. They cannot see the Phantom overhearing their vows of love. There, with all of Paris around them, they pledge their love to one another. In the confusion, Raoul and Christine escape to the roof of the Opera House. As promised, disaster strikes – the stage hand, Joseph Buquet, is killed, and Carlotta’s voice is stolen. Il Muto proceeds as planned, with Carlotta in the lead, and Christine in a secondary role. The manager’s refuse to give in to the Phantom’s demands.
The Phantom has sent notes to both the managers of the Opera, as well as Raoul, Madame Giry and Carlotta, which give instructions that Christine will have the lead in the new opera, Il Muto. Horrified, he takes her back to the surface. Creeping up behind him, she rips off his mask. She faints, only to be awakened several hours later by the Phantom’s music on the organ.
He leads her to his underground lair, where she sees a frightening vision of herself in a wedding gown. Christine is lured into the bowels of the Opera House, where the Phantom will continue her lessons. When Raoul leaves Christine’s room, the Phantom appears. He comes backstage after the performance to escort her to dinner, but Christine tells him she cannot go, because her teacher, “The Angel of Music,” is very strict. Raoul recognizes Christine as a childhood friend. Christine has been taking lessons from a mysterious new teacher.Īt her triumph in the Opera, is Raoul, a nobleman and patron of the Opera. Meg Giry, daughter of the ballet mistress, Madame Giry, suggests her friend, Christine Daaé, take Carlotta’s place. The cry is raised, “It’s The Phantom of the Opera!” Upset, Carlotta refuses to sing. As the prima donna, Carlotta, is singing, a backdrop falls to the floor, nearly killing her.
Monsieur Lefèvre, the retiring manager of the Opera, is showing the new managers, Monsieurs Firmin and André, the great stage. We are thrust in the middle of a rehearsal for the opera Hannibal. With a flash of light, the audience is flung back in time, when the Paris Opera was at its height. As the auctioneer displays the Opera House chandelier, he explains that it is connected with the legend of The Phantom of the Opera. Raoul, now seventy years old and in a wheelchair, buys a poster and a music box. Present are the auctioneer, porters and bidders. It is 1911 and the contents of the Paris Opera House are being auctioned off. Prepare for the spellbinding sequel with a refresher on THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
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