Phantom’s author, Gaston Leroux, was a career journalist and an author of detective novels. But what I do appreciate, in most all versions, even as a fully-fledged grown-up now, is the mystery. And I personally take much more kindly to the (botched, as far as true-to-the-source-material) 1943 film version in which she leaves all bumbling suitors behind and pursues her career, instead.Īnd as I'd first read the book as a younger person, a lot of the insinuations of Christine’s “purity” and the “ecstasy” the Phantom was leading her to via her talents and song were lost on me. And I think I'm not alone at having been lead by Andrew Lloyd Webber into rooting for the inspiring Phantom over her mortal beau of Raoul. I remember seeing the musical and both times being utterly confused at the opening auction scene. And, because I've always been super-intrigued about where stories started, I had read the classic Gaston Leroux novel ( Le Fantome de L'Opera, first published in 1911) as well.īut of course, when you're doing research into a tale, you learn so much more that you hadn't noticed when "merely" enjoying a story!
I've seen the musical Phantom of the Opera live on stage (usually from the back row!) a couple of times. “the box was taken.” faerie tale feet painting inspired by gaston leroux’s 1911 novel, Le Fantome de L’Opera.
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