Raoul promises to protect her and the two reveal their love for one another, sharing a kiss before Christine has to go back down to recommence the show.Ĭhristine and Raoul become engaged, though Christine insists on keeping the engagement a secret. She reveals the existence of the Angel of Music and her fear of him to a skeptical Raoul, without revealing the Angel's attachment to her. When Joseph Buquet is killed and left to dangle amidst the ballet number, to theirs and the audience's horror, Christine suspects her teacher and begs Raoul to go with her to the roof of the Opera House, where she hopes the Phantom won't go. As Madame Giry helps Christine change into the new character's costume, the young woman finds another black-ribboned rose. Christine, Meg and Madame Giry head to the stage with concern on their faces over the Phantom's promised retribution.ĭuring the show, Carlotta's voice fails catastrophically and the managers order the show stopped, promising the confused audience that they will begin again shortly with Christine as the leading lady.

After resting, she is informed that she has been cast as the mute page boy in the production of 'Il Muto', against the Phantom's instructions. She shyly offers him his mask back and the Phantom regains his calm, then tells her it's time to return to the Opera House. She finds the Phantom at his organ and attempts to unmask him, which prompts an angry outburst that frightens Christine. The sight makes Christine faint with shock.Ĭhristine wakes up in an elaborate bed shaped like a swan. There, the Phantom and Christine sing together (The Music of the Night) and he shows her a mannequin in her likeness wearing an elaborate wedding dress. He rages at Raoul for unfairly basking in Christine's success, which leads Christine to apologize for accepting the invitation and ask him to please come in: the Angel, revealed to be the Phantom of the Opera, appears in the mirror and leads Christine to his underground lair. After some pressing, she agrees to go to dinner with Raoul, but hasn't begun to change when the voice of the Angel of Music appears once more. is thrilled to receive a visit from Raoul, who addresses her by her childhood nickname of 'Little Lotte' and remembers a poem about their childhood games. While in her changing room, Christine finds a rose with a black ribbon that Madame Giry says is a sing that 'he' is pleased with her. While Christine expresses immense gratitude towards the voice, Meg notes that Christine is pale and her hands are cold as she speaks of him, implying fear. She tells Meg, who comes to the chapel looking for he later, that she's been hearing a voice ever since she arrived at the Opera House: she is convinced it's the Angel of Music her father promised her, and he is the one who's been coaching her.

While she is in the opera's chapel immediately after the show, Christine hears a disembodied voice praising her performance. She is cast in Carlotta's place and sings her part that night to great acclaim. When Carlotta Giudicelli quits the production of 'Hannibal' in anger and fear over yet another unexplained accident, Christine submits to Madame Giry's entreaties and sings for the new managers: they, the cast and even the stage hands are overcome by the beauty of her voice. She points him out to Meg excitedly but refrains from revealing herself to Raoul, convinced that he won't recognize her. When Monsieur Lefèvre announces his retirement and introduces the Opera's new management and patrons, Christine recognizes the Viscount de Chagny as her childhood sweetheart Raoul. After her father died, Christine was interned in the Opera Populaire's dormitories to train as a ballerina and chorus girl by Madame Giry, who took Christine under her wing and came to consider her another daughter.īy the 1870's, Christine is in the opera's corps de ballet alongside Meg Giry, Madame Giry's daughter and friend of Christine. As her father lay dying, he promised he would send her an 'angel of music' to protect her once he was in heaven.

The only daughter of famed Swedish violinist Gustave Daaé, Christine was orphaned at the age of 7.

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