Raoul indulges what he assumes are fantasies and insists on taking Christine to dinner. Christine confides that the Angel has visited her and taught her to sing (" Little Lotte"). Raoul pays a visit to Christine's dressing room and the two reminisce about "Angel of Music" stories that her late father used to tell them. As Christine sings the aria during the evening performance, the Opéra's new patron, Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny, recognises her as his childhood friend and playmate (" Think of Me").īackstage after her triumphant début, Christine confesses to her friend Meg that her singing has been inspired by an unseen tutor she knows only as the "Angel of Music" (" Angel of Music"). With cancellation of the sold-out show being their only other alternative, the managers reluctantly audition her and are surprised to discover that she is indeed talented. Madame Giry, the Opéra's ballet mistress, and her dancer daughter Meg inform Firmin and André that Christine Daaé, a chorus girl and orphaned daughter of a prominent violinist, has been "well taught" and can sing Carlotta's role. The managers try to downplay the incident, but Carlotta angrily insists that such things have been happening for "three years" and she storms out, leaving the show. Carlotta, the Opéra's resident soprano prima donna, begins to perform an aria for the new managers when a backdrop inexplicably falls from the flies, barely missing her and prompting anxious chorus girls to whisper, "He's here! The Phantom of the Opera!". It is now 1881 and the cast of a new production, Hannibal, are rehearsing onstage when they learn that new owners, Firmin and André, are taking over the Opéra Populaire (" Hannibal Rehearsal"). The auctioneer then presents a shattered chandelier renovated with electrical wiring, alluding to a connection with "the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained." As the porters remove the drop cloth covering the fixture, it flickers to life and ascends to the ceiling ("Overture"). Among the attendees is the elderly Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, who purchases a papier-mâché music box with a monkey figurine. In 1905 Paris, the Opéra Populaire hosts an auction of old theatrical memorabilia. The Phantom of the Opera the Musical - SYNOPSIS
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