オペラ座の怪人のあらすじ

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A ghost haunts the Opera and everyone has a story

   On the night of a farewell gala, ballet girls burst into the dressing room of the dancer Sorelli and cry that they have seen the ghost. For months the whole building has talked of nothing else.

   The description comes from Joseph Buquet, the chief scene shifter, a sober man not given to fancies. He says the figure is thin as a skeleton, with yellow skin stretched like a drumhead, two black holes for eyes and no nose at all. Little Meg Giry adds that the ghost has a private box, Box Five, which the box office has orders never to sell. Her mother has never seen him, but she hears him and hands him his program every night.

   Then Buquet is found hanging in the third cellar. The inquest calls it suicide, but the rope has vanished before anyone can cut him down. Somebody must have wanted it gone.

   In the Opera, a ghost story turns serious the moment a real man dies.

2. 2

   A triumph on stage and a voice behind the door

   That same evening, a young singer named Christine Daae steps in for the ailing diva Carlotta and sings Margarita in Faust.

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3. 3

   Childhood legends explain the Angel of Music

   Christine goes to Perros, in Brittany, to visit her father's grave, and Raoul follows her.

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4. 4

   The new managers meet a ghost who sends letters

   Armand Moncharmin and Firmin Richard, the new managers, laugh when their predecessors warn them about the ghost.

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5. 5

   A cursed night of Faust ends in a falling chandelier

   On the night of the ultimatum, Richard and Moncharmin sit in Box Five to see what the ghost will do.

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6. 6

   Raoul learns a name at the masked ball

   Christine vanishes for two weeks.

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7. 7

   Christine tells her story and then vanishes before everyone

   On the roof beneath a bronze statue of Apollo, Christine finally tells Raoul everything.

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8. 8

   Pity and fear run through every scene with Erik

   Erik is no simple villain.

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9. 9

   Illusion, superstition and theatre blur what is real

   Almost every scene turns on something that looks false but is real, or looks real but is staged.

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10. 10

    A case file with letters, witnesses and a changing voice

    Leroux opens with a prologue in which a narrator claims to have found proof.

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