The Opera Ghost, Erik, takes it upon himself to make the sacrifice necessary to ensure his true love's happiness he gives up his own dreams of love to see Christine stand beside Raoul, where she's truly happy and truly in love. The web twists around and around so far that eventually the only way to disentangle the entirety of it, tragedy must come of someone. What Raoul falls into is the mystery and entanglement of Christine's vows to the Angel of Music (the Opera Ghost) to never marry, so as to ensure the Angel does not go away like he promises to should she decide to marry. He recognizes his childhood sweetheart, Christine Daaé, and immediately tries to rekindle their old friendship, and perhaps something more. We're then introduced to one of our main players, Raoul de Chagny, a viscount in Paris. The story itself begins with dancers in the Opera gossiping about the Opera Ghost being seen and having murdered a poor man to spot him and spread the rumors that he had, indeed, seen the Opera Ghost. What we have today is a timeless novel of love, tragedy, and gothic (as in "domestic") suspense liable to make even the most hardened person sit up and take notice. Leroux, while intrigued about actual stories of an Opera Ghost, took it upon himself to construct and detail for us readers a very vivid, very heart-rending (and unfortunately, yes, fictional) account of the entire story behind the chandelier falling at the Paris Opera-an actual tragedy that spurred him to really look into reports of this purported Opera Ghost. Throughout the book, he gives us little bits to chew on say, for instance, Moncharmin's fictional memoir, and the Persian's written account being taken for some of the last chapters in the novel. Gaston Leroux starts off his novel with an intriguing claim that everything within the book's pages is an actual account of the tragedy of the Opera Ghost at the Paris Opera.
What I am here writing on is the novel-the actual story of the Opera Ghost.
Leroux's novel and Webber's adaptation of it are two completely different stories.
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